Tactical Data Links System Engineer
The Opportunity:
Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact in security cooperation? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer-focused engineering solution.
As a systems engineer on our team, you have the chance to shape security cooperation engagements by leading engineering efforts. Your customer will trust you to not only design and develop these systems, but also evolve them with advanced technology solutions. On our team, you’ll be able to broaden your skillset into areas like system of systems architecture and security cooperation. Grow your skills by merging tactical data links expertise, systems engineering, and security cooperation to create engineering solutions that meet National Defense Strategy objectives.
Join us. The world can’t wait.
You Have:
Experience capturing and analyzing Tactical Data Link (TDL) system operational capabilities requirements and constrains identified by end user, U.S. Combatant Command, Component, or stakeholder organizations
Experience in the planning and design of TDL networks at the operational level
Experience assessing and analyzing system concepts, functional capabilities, and performance specifications, and validating against operational capabilities requirements
Experience developing products and artifacts to support system engineering technical review millstones, such as System Requirement Review (SRR), System Functional Review (SFR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), and Critical Design Review (CDR)
Experience decomposing high-level operational requirements into functional definitions, verification objectives, and full system specifications, and identifying enabling and critical technologies, constraints, and risks
Knowledge of the fundamentals and components of a TDL network, such as Link-11 or Link-16
Ability to build systems architecture documentation, such as OV-1 and SV-1
Secret clearance
Bachelor’s degree
Nice If You Have:
Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.
Compensation
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Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $60,300.00 to $137,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.
Work Model
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EEO Commitment
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