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Solvarus

Advisory services for intelligence IT

Senior Systems Engineer

Full-TimePosted on 8/3/2026
No salary listed
Expert
Bachelor's, Master's
Chantilly, VA, USA
In Person
IT Operations
No H1B Sponsorship
US Top Secret Clearance Required

About the job

Requirements
  • 18+ years of experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas, including Department of Defense or Intelligence Community acquisition, requirements, or PPBES processes, or systems engineering of large complex systems-of-systems or service-oriented architecture environments in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid infrastructures.
  • Experience with and strong understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of the current National System of Geospatial-intelligence, Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence, and National Reconnaissance Office enterprises.
  • Previous National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and/or National System of Geospatial-intelligence or Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence program or project work experience.
  • Previous Intelligence Community or Department of Defense program or project work experience.
  • Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance adjudication or ability to obtain Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance and pass a polygraph.
  • Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Operations Research, Engineering Management, or a related Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics degree program.
Responsibilities
  • Assist the Government in directing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability, and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence, Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence, and Federal Agencies.
  • Assist with planning and analysis or traceability of user requirements, architecture traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems, and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
  • Advise the Government on proposed changes to solution designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.
  • Assist the Government in capturing and translating mission and customer requirements and needs into systems or capability requirements and solutions.
  • Support the analysis and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.
  • Assist the Government in performing systems integration activities.
  • Assist in leading Analysis of Alternatives, Courses of Action, trade studies, and engineering assessments.
  • Assist the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management, and interface design.
  • Provide expert advice to the Government concerning vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability development.
  • Integrate multiple major systems acquisitions across organizational, agency, department, and governmental or national boundaries.
  • Oversee and coordinate the work of senior-, mid-, and junior-level contractor systems engineers.
Desired Qualifications
  • Master's degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific field such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics degree program.
  • Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering processes, tools, and languages.
  • Software Development Framework certification.

About the company

Solvarus Consulting provides advisory and staffing services to the U.S. Intelligence Community and the DoD, focusing on specialized intelligence and IT experts. It places SETA professionals for systems engineering, program management, and enterprise initiatives, often in long-term engagements. Work spans multi-intelligence fusion, TCPED for GEOINT and SIGINT, cloud adoption, SAFe, and DoDAF 2.02–compliant architectures to ensure interoperability and reuse across programs. The goal is to help federal agencies improve decision-making, mission effectiveness, and cost efficiency through expert staffing, program guidance, and interoperable IT architectures.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Clifton, New Jersey

Founded

2011

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