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Senior Systems Engineer


Company : Markon


Location : Springfield, VA


Created : 2025-11-06


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Eager to join a team where your skills are valued, your growth is nurtured, and your impact is profound? Look no further than Markon, a premier consulting firm deeply dedicated to advancing our nation's most critical missions.At Markon, we don't just offer jobs - we offer opportunities for personal and professional transformation. Empowering our employees to lead, innovate, and excel, we foster an environment where new ideas are not just welcomed but celebrated. As a perennial Washington Post Top Workplace, we prioritize the well-being and success of our team members, ensuring they can bring their best selves to work.Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, Markon has garnered national recognition for our unwavering dedication to excellence in serving the intelligence community, as well as federal civilian and defense agencies. Our growing reach extends across 17 states, 116 countries, and 5 continents, where our team of dynamic professionals collaborates to deliver unparalleled program and project management services.Markon values people and the tremendous impact each individual can make - which is why we’re consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in federal government consulting. Here, you can help solve the nation’s most important challenges, surrounded by colleagues who help you grow, advance, and succeed. We are deeply dedicated to what matters - bringing out the best in each other to advance our clients’ missions.Join us and make a meaningful impact.Markon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. This job posting will remain open until the position is filled.Benefits Offered:Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Training and Tuition Assistance, Paid Time Off, and HolidaysMarkon is seeking a Senior level Systems Engineer to support our client from Springfield, VA.Develop and maintain Systems Engineering Plans (SEP), Configuration Management Plan (CMP) and other engineering documentationDevelop and maintain standard acquisition documentation for PMO portfolio including standardized requirements documentation and processImplement repeatable processes and procedures for transitioning new technologies and integrating new applications into PMO infrastructureParticipate in requirements development and configuration baseline documentationProvide evaluations of proposed industry solutions to identify innovative and new technologies to prototype and transition into the PMO programsProvide baseline requirements for Requests For Change (RFCs), Interface Control Documents (ICDs), standard support to include the full breadth of the agency and/or multi-agency requirements coordination meetings and initiatives to transition R&D capabilities into PMO operationsRequired:Active TS/SCI with a CI Polygraph (conducted within the last 5 years) (Preferrably with this client)TS/SCI clearance adjudication with the ability to pass the CI Poly is also eligibleBachelor's degree in Engineering or 12 years of experience in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics in lieu of degree12 years of technical experience is requiredDemonstrated experience with Integrated Protection StrategyDemonstrated experience with threats including SOSI, Radar and Optical sensors, Command and Control (C2), Battle Management Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3), orbital analysis, and Offensive Space Control/Defensive Space Control (OSC/DSC)Demonstrated experience dealing with data and data sources that exist at multiple classification levelsDemonstrated experience employing security controls to protect assets, missions, and data from SECRET to TS/CAP/SAP levelsDemonstrated experience with space environment, and space to ground including threats to assets; track deconfliction of SSADemonstrated experience with threats of the nation's most sensitive operationsDemonstrated experience supporting mission partner organizations CAP/SAP architecturesDesired:Demonstrated understanding of the following standards:ANSI/EIA 632: Processes for Engineering SystemsIEEE 1220: Standard for Application and Management of Systems EngineeringIEEE 24765: 2017 - Systems and Software Engineering - VocabularyISO/IEC/IEEE 12207: 2017 - Systems and Software Engineering - Software Life Cycle ProcessesISO/IEC 15288: Systems Engineering - System Life Cycle ProcessesDemonstrated experience with Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languagesDemonstrated experience with space object measurement and identificationDemonstrated experience with physics models to include the assessment of conservative/non-conservative forces, uncertainty/confidence estimation, space weather effects, break-up events, and conjunction analysis techniques that scale to many-on-many objects and can be dynamically taskedDemonstrated experience of space enterprise information needs (comprehensive, historical and indexed appropriately for down-stream tools), including space object observations, historical behavior and the relevant context of that behaviorUSD $140,000.00 - USD $160,000.00 /Yr.The Markon pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.