Systems Engineer - TX

• Location: Richardson, Texas
• Type: Contract
• Job #3422

Systems Engineer
Richardson, TX
Active TS/SCI
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:

• Support technical direction and design to software agile development teams, and other Engineering personnel.
• Perform technical analyses and define how the system works creating use cases, system capability and feature designs, defining system interfaces and acceptance criteria.
• In this role, the candidate will provide engineering support for the implementation of a portion of the program's systems engineering.
• To succeed in this role, you must have systems engineering development lifecycle experience using an Agile methodology.
• Collaborate with the systems engineering teams to design and develop software
• Assist in providing technical information and clarification during the entire software development lifecycle, from conceptualization and design to development, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Perform solution decomposition from customer epics, to capabilities, to features, to stories according to SAFe Agile practices
• Apply systems engineering expertise to feature designs to reduce overall risk to the software development effort
• Engage with customer user representatives or subject matter experts to gather user needs and incorporate into the feature designs for the agile development teams
• Engage with SMEs from other disciplines to fully understand the solution and document the designs.
  

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated system engineering and technical experience with software systems development
• Experience in agile software development activities, including system level design specification and integration test and verification activities (full SE life cycle)
• Experience interacting across multiple engineering disciplines, including both programmatic and technical
• Experience working in an Agile development team environment with multi-discipline engineers and stake holders, developing system solutions to meet customer requirements, requirements decomposition, and experience with CONOPS development
• Experience working on teams addressing solution definition, decomposition, design and acceptance criteria
• Experience performing design activities with cross-disciplined engineering teams
• Experience working in the software development Lifecyle

Desired Skills:

• SIGINT, GEOINT, or Multi-INT Intelligence Community (IC) background with end user mission experience
• Experience in a technical role of a large multi-disciplined engineering team
• Experience with cloud-based S/W architectures and systems is a plus
• Experience developing MBSE and DoDAF artifacts
• Background and experience successfully working with all levels of engineering development in large government software development programs as well as an individual contributor as part of an agile development team
• 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 requirements decomposition, system architecture and system design
• Experience using MBSE processes and tools to capture systems design and elaboration in Cameo or similar tool
• Experience in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and/or micro-service based systems

Company Benefits:
Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.