What are the responsibilities and job description for the ARCHITECTURE REQUIREMENTS ENGINEER position at Ignite?
Job Description
Ignite is an ISO 9001 : 2015 and CMMI Services Level 3 certified, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), headquartered in Huntsville, AL. By design, Ignite is a provider of professional services to customers in educational, federal, and commercial industries and in every action seeks to be the preeminent provider within this business space. Ignite upholds our values of competency, collaboration, innovation, reliability, and results through everything we do.
Ignite is currently seeking a driven, detail-oriented Architecture Requirements Engineer to join our team supporting the Missile Defense Agency, in Huntsville, AL. This position is expected to be onsite.
Job Requirements
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to :
- Provide technical expertise on missile defense activities to include adversary capabilities, systems engineering, and evaluation.
- Remain cognizant of intelligence updates of new threat systems that affect future missile defense architectures.
- Evaluate the adequacy of the current MDS to include ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile defensive architecture to counter the threat and recommend courses of action for concept of operations, system improvements, and identify alternate strategies for affordable, cost effective and technically advanced systems.
- Evaluate and adapt analysis of Allied Missile Defense systems in defense of the Unified Command Theaters; assess how to incorporate those allied missile defense systems into U.S. missile defense systems to provide a more robust defense.
- Provide reach-back for consulting services for key MDS development expertise; facilitating efforts across internal / external stakeholders such as Services and Combatant Commanders providing strategic advice, guidance and direction.
- Support, evaluate, analyze and develop technical recommendations through exchanges with FFRDCs, UARCs, and OGAs to provide input on program process and technical improvement opportunities.
- Support Defense Architecture evolution strategy and development through assessment of interim and final results of Analysis of Alternatives and other analysis activities to include top-level requirements.
- Assist in the analysis, demonstrations, and tests to support early milestones and feasibility assessments and to collect data to verify that architecture analysis assumptions are credible.
Job Requirements and Qualifications :
Basic Qualifications
Desired Qualifications
Security Clearance Requirements :
Must have an active Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain one.
Education Requirements :
Other Requirements :
Must be a US citizen and must Hold an Active Security Clearance
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