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Peraton

Runs and secures technology for federal agencies

Enterprise Schedule Management - ESM, Systems Engineer

Program ManagementUpdated on Nov 13
Full-timeSpringfield, VA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent experience; alternatively, an associate’s degree and four years of relevant experience, or six years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
  • At least two years of systems engineering experience focused on schedule management.
  • Advanced Microsoft Word skills.
  • Significant experience with Jira and Confluence.
  • Ability to establish effective relationships with senior-level customers.
  • Detail orientation, time-management skills, and organizational skills.
  • Interpersonal, problem-solving, and multitasking skills.
  • Ability to work independently and within a team environment.
  • Knowledge of the NGA organization and programs.
  • TS/SCI clearance adjudication and ability to pass a polygraph.

Responsibilities

  • Create, maintain, manage, and operate automated enterprise and interagency schedules using a government-approved tool such as Microsoft Project/Project Server, Jira, or Tableau, integrating and assessing schedule data across NGA and mission partners.
  • Develop enterprise, cross-program, and cross-project technical roadmaps; conduct incremental reviews of schedule milestones and activities; and maintain schedule baselines to ensure enterprise schedules are informed, current, and executable.
  • Develop and apply algorithms and models to identify and analyze schedule critical paths, conduct what-if scenarios, assess program execution viability, and forecast impacts caused by changes to execution plans and underlying schedules.
  • Serve as an Enterprise Schedule Management systems engineer on the program’s ESM Team, helping the Government define, schedule, synchronize, orchestrate, visualize, and communicate cross-program and cross-project activities, and provide expertise for capability planning and effectivity definitions addressing mission priorities.
  • Work with systems engineers, architects, program managers, and project leads across NGA and mission partners.
  • Lead NGA/NSG meeting responses reviewing and presenting program, project, and segment schedule data using reports, Gantt charts, and other visualizations; communicate schedule expectations, status, deviations, and areas of concern.
  • Coordinate with programs to obtain suitable schedule data, including linkages, dependencies, and level of detail, for creating and maintaining schedules.
  • Coordinate schedule interactions with mission partners to understand key NGA dependencies.
  • Identify system-development milestones that drive capability phasing to meet enterprise epics or equivalent planning timeframes.
  • Develop, manage, and maintain connections between strategic-level guidance and enterprise-level effectivities and lower-level program, project, and segment effectivities and milestones.
  • Develop enterprise, cross-program, and cross-project schedules and technical roadmaps; conduct incremental reviews of schedule milestones and activities; and maintain schedule baselines as directed.
  • Work 100% onsite; remote and hybrid work are unavailable.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge or experience analyzing impacts using schedule tools and planning processes.
  • Knowledge or experience supporting customers and the ability to work in a government environment as part of a multi-contractor team.
  • Advanced technical degree.
  • Working knowledge of NSG strategies and IPO management.
  • Two to six years of experience with NGA processes and procedures.
  • Experience with geospatial intelligence systems or existing legacy/heritage NSG segments.

About the Company

Peraton

Runs and secures technology for federal agencies

Peraton builds and runs secure technology for American defense, intelligence, space, and civilian agencies, from military networks to satellite ground stations. In 2025, the Federal Aviation Administration chose it to manage the overhaul of the nation's air traffic control system, replacing copper wiring with fiber and upgrading radar and radios. Its engineers, many holding security clearances, run and defend agency networks and data centers, write mission software, and operate space and communications systems, and agencies pay for this work through multiyear contracts. Peraton was formed in 2017, when private-equity firm Veritas Capital bought Harris Corporation's government IT business, and is based in Reston, Virginia.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$60M
Headquarters
Reston, VA
Founded
2017

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