Principal Systems Engineer with active TS/SCI
Richardson, TX OR State College, PA OR Aurora, CO - On-Site
Duration: Initial 1-Year Contract, contract to hire
Pay Range: $95-100/hr W2
JOB NUMBER: 14528188
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Overview:
The Principal Systems Engineer will execute multiple aspects of the systems engineering discipline, to include requirements decomposition into software functions, system performance analysis and trade studies, oversight of software development and system integration and test activities to ensure system requirements closure. The system engineer will interact with the agile development teams, program leadership and customer regarding technical considerations, risks, and issue closure associated with our portfolio capabilities.
What You Will Do:
- In this role you will work with the customer and engineering leadership to perform analysis necessary to define and document requirements for software releases; work with the Requirements Manager to ensure up to date requirements traceability matrices are in place; assist in the creation/management of a project schedule based on development and release activities.
- Multi-task, adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, effectively network, and communicate to all levels of the organization and drive processes to successful completion in support of schedules
- Responsible for contributing to the technical planning and capability / feature designs, and technical detailing for the agile development teams.
- Work on a cloud solutions, where parts of the system will be on the Cloud environment and other portions remain on a hardware environment
- Utilize knowledge of networking, infrastructure, cyber security, software design and architectures
Qualifications You Must Have:
- Active and transferable U.S. government issued 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
- System engineering full life cycle experience and technical leadership experience in development of large software systems.
- Experience supporting agile development activities, including requirements specification and integration test and verification activities (full life-cycle)
- Experience with requirements derivation, capability development-analyze complex requirements and determine viable solutions
- Experience decomposing customer epics into capabilities that can then be decomposed by the development teams into actionable features and stories for development
- Systems design and specification experience, CONOPS development and large-scale distributed software system experience
- Experience defining acceptance criteria for capabilities that can be detail designed and developed by external teams
- Experience conducting design and/or modeling activities, interpreting customer needs, and converting them to achievable requirements
- Experience maintaining technical cost and schedule for systems engineering and software integration
Qualifications We Prefer:
- SIGINT, GEOINT, or Multi-INT Intelligence Community (IC) background analyst with end user mission experience
- Experience in a technical leadership role of a large multi-disciplined engineering team
- Experience with cloud-based S/W architectures and systems
- Experience using Architecture Frameworks and modeling resources and methodologies like Cameo, Enterprise Architect, Rhapsody, etc. for definition of large systems with complex integration and interoperability challenges.
- Experience developing MBSE and/or DoDAF operational views for overview and details
- AWS cloud experience - AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience, as a System Engineer or working directly with in such roles
- Experience using modeling resources Experience using Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.), and evaluation of COTS / FOSS applications
Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled
* While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions