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Portfolio Systems Engineer, SR

Location Chantilly, Virginia Category Engineering, Technology, & Science Job Type Full time Job Id R2105101 Posted Date 06/13/2025
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Portfolio Systems Engineer, SR

Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

  • Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

  • Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

  • Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

This position is contingent upon contract award

Key Responsibilities:

  • Analyze user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications

  • Provide decision support and advice on investment strategies

  • Provide senior-level staff support to coordinate and manage systems engineering actions and activities

  • Provide technical support and assessments focused on activities that address technology research, applied technology concepts, and technology demonstrations.

  • Advise management on technical risks of new and ongoing projects and review, analyze, and assess technologies, system concepts, data, and information to recommend applications of new or emerging technologies

  • Perform analyses and assessments of projects to help determine their consistency with strategic direction, technology development plans, and requirements

  • Support and coordinate outreach efforts with other Government agencies, industry, and academia

  • Assist in portfolio management, planning, and visualization to include identifying transition and implementation opportunities

  • Assist in establishing procedures and standards for managing technical development/architecture plans across the portfolio

  • Review, analyze, comment, and prepare staffing documents, including plans, policies, concepts of operation, technical architectures, initiatives, and programmatic documents

  • Analyze identified hardware, software, procedural, or training system shortfalls and propose technical alternatives to remedy the problem(s), applying the principles and practices of systems engineering

Qualifications Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other related technical discipline required

  • Minimum of 15 years of overall systems engineering experience and a thorough understanding of systems engineering and acquisition processes

  • Ability to derive an understanding of stakeholder needs and functions that may be logically inferred and implied as essential to system effectiveness from system requirements

  • Experience supporting system requirements and system integration at the enterprise level

  • Experience following a formal procedure for coordinating system integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfaces

  • Experience with Agile project management principles and processes

  • TS/SCI with Polygraph

  • Some travel required

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you’re excited about making a significant impact in the field of space defense and working on projects that matter, we encourage you to apply and join our team at KBR. Let's shape the future together.

KBR Benefits

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture.  These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company.  That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together. 

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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