Senior Systems Engineer

Work Location: National Capital Region and Tampa, FL

Type: Full-time, Hybrid

Start Date: June 2025

Clearance Requirements: Top Secret, SCI eligible

OBJECTIVE 

Dhara is currently seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be in the National Capital Region, Florida or possibly a remote location with TS clearance and SCI eligibility. The qualified applicant will become part of Dhara’s vital role in safeguarding our nation’s information with MPCO. The MPCO assumes responsibility for modernization, management, integration, operation, maintenance, and sustainment of the MPE capabilities, including numerous legacy capabilities. The MPCO also provides DoD-wide enterprise-level development, integration, systems engineering, and synchronized delivery of mission capabilities and DoD-wide enterprise services that support interagency, multinational, coalition and combined C2I coalition information sharing requirements. These capabilities include cross-domain solutions, cybersecurity, and interoperability testing. The MPE is designed and optimized to meet the Commanders’ critical interoperability requirements across all warfighting functions and allow access to information by authorized users. The MPE also provides users access to common warfighter functions and mission applications with the goal of a standardized network infrastructure. 

Duties and Responsibilities  

•  Designs, integrates, tests & fields, and maintains information system to include planning, estimating, defining and documenting the requirements for complex systems, equipment and software configurations.  

• Develops architectural concepts and cybersecurity requirements IAW RMF. Supports engineering or architectural development in the design, testing, implementation, and sustainment of complex intelligence or information sharing systems.  

• Supports operations or military intelligence systems and military C2 information sharing efforts. May provide knowledge and experience with DoD Architectural Framework, FMN, NATOFMN, DISA (MNIS), JIE, JADC2, or DI2E. 

Requirements and Qualifications 

• Top Secret with SCI eligible 

• A Senior-level level person within a labor category has ten (10) or more years of experience performing work related to the labor category functional description. 

•  Six (6) or more years of specific functional requirement pertaining specifically to the labor category and a component of the DoD relating to the PWS task areas being supported. 

•  A Senior-level person typically works on high-visibility or mission critical aspects of a given program and performs all functional duties independently. 

•  A Senior-level person may oversee the efforts of less senior staff and/or be responsible for the efforts of all staff assigned to a specific job. 

•  Possess the ability for oral and written communication with the highest levels of management, and the ability to professionally prepare and present analytical documents for senior military and defense officials. 

•  Must have requisite engineering degree as applicable to engineering or program management certification as applicable to program management; cost / schedule / performance background and ability to develop materials and brief senior leaders on complex issues.