Senior Systems Engineer - Product Owner (TS/SCI)

Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer - Product Owner
Work Location: Richardson, TX
Duration: 1 year contract
Education/Experience Required: Active and transferable U.S. government issued security TS/SCI security clearance is required prior to start date.
Job Description & Responsibilities:

• In this role you will be responsible for the continued development of an advanced, leading-edge, software system providing excellent technical guidance and team communication.
• As the Senior Systems Engineer - Product Owner (SE - PO) you will function in a technical role in a SAFe Agile development environment and effectively work and communicate with all levels of Program Leadership, Customers, and Engineers on the Program team.
• This position is on-site in Richardson, Texas. As a SE - PO, you will collaborate with the systems engineering and subcontractor teams to design and develop software.
• The SE - PO assists in providing technical direction and clarification to subcontractors during the entire software development lifecycle; from conceptualization and design to development, testing, deployment, and operations. The SE - PO performs solution decomposition from customer epics, to capabilities, to features, to stories according to SAFe practices.
• The SE - PO will apply systems engineering expertise in particular to feature designs to reduce overall risk to the software development lifecycle.
• The SE - PO will engage with customer user representatives to gather user needs and incorporate into the feature designs.
• The SE - PO will also engage with SMEs from other disciplines to fully understand the solution and document the designs.

Skills & Qualifications:
Qualifications You Must Have:

• Active and transferable U.S. government issued security TS/SCI security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years experience
• Experience working in an Agile development team environment with multi-discipline engineers and stake holders, developing system solutions to meet customer requirements
• Experienced with requirements decomposition and experience with CONOPS development
• Solution oriented, strong communication skills, excellent problem-solving and time management skills
• Extensive systems engineering experience, including support to development of large software systems, as Technical Lead or with subject matter expert experience; and extensive engineering experience working in the full software development lifecycle using Agile methodology that ensures high quality software is built and released to end-users quickly and within cost and schedule parameters
• Experience using Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.), and evaluation of COTS

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience working with or developing MBSE and DoDAF operational views for design detail
• AWS cloud experience - AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience, as a System Engineer or working directly in such roles
• Experience using modeling resources and methodologies like Cameo, Enterprise Architect, Rhapsody, is a plus
• CompTIA Security + Certification - Linux
• Experience with the Cloud technologies and Cloud migration, Containerization and databases, Automation (Build, Deploy, Test

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