Junior Systems Engineer

Reflexive Concepts; Maryland; On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Reflexive Concepts is seeking a Junior Systems Engineer to assist with planning, design, and implementation of a mission-critical system. You will work directly with customers, systems engineers, developers, and the UX team to ensure features are defined, built, tested, and delivered.

Responsibilities include eliciting requirements, crafting user stories, grooming the backlog, supporting developers, and presenting progress to government customers.

Qualifications

• Ability to elicit, analyze, and document functional requirements from government customers and stakeholders.
• Translate requirements into actionable Jira user stories and epics for development teams.
• Experience performing functional/manual testing of application features.
• Familiarity with Agile software development and collaboration tools like Jira and Confluence.
• Strong written and verbal communication, able to present technical work to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and document functional requirements from government customers and stakeholders.
• Translate requirements into well-defined user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Curate and groom the sprint backlog so work is well-scoped for developers.
• Serve as a point of contact for developers to remove blockers during sprints.
• Conduct initial functional testing to validate features against requirements.
• Present new development and features to government customers and gather feedback.
• Collaborate with UX on designs to reflect usability and design considerations.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and support the development lifecycle.

Skills

Requirements gathering

User story development

Sprint curation

Developer support

Initial testing

Customer presentations

UX collaboration

Agile ceremonies

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Jira

Confluence

AWS

Job description

Reflexive Concepts is seeking a Junior Systems Engineer to join our team!

We have an immediate need for a Junior Systems Engineer to assist with overseeing the planning, design, and implementation of a mission-critical system. Candidates should be passionate about collaboratively solving challenging problems and have a track record of delivering high-quality solutions. Work directly with customers, systems engineers, developers, and the UX team to ensure mission-driven software capabilities are accurately defined, built, tested, and delivered. Engage tactically with the development team, maintain close collaboration with stakeholders, and actively participate in Agile delivery throughout the development lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Gathering & Decomposition: Elicit and document functional requirements from the government customer and stakeholders, decomposing them into detailed technical requirements.
• User Story Development: Translate technical requirements into well-defined user stories and acceptance criteria for the development team.
• Sprint Curation: Curate and groom the sprint backlog, ensuring stories are appropriately sized and sequenced so each developer has sufficient, well-scoped work.
• Developer Support: Serve as a point of contact for developers, addressing implementation questions and helping remove blockers throughout the sprint.
• Initial Testing: Conduct initial functional testing of new development to validate features against requirements before broader QA and customer review.
• Customer Presentation: Present new development and completed features to the government customer, gathering feedback for future iterations.
• UX Collaboration: Partner with the UX team on new designs, ensuring requirements and user stories reflect usability and design considerations.
• Agile Ceremonies: Participate actively in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, demos, retrospectives) and support the broader development lifecycle.

Required skills and experience:

• Ability to work directly with customers and stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document functional requirements
• Ability to translate requirements into actionable Jira user stories and epics for development teams
• Experience conducting functional/manual testing of application features
• Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical work to non-technical stakeholders

Desired skills and experience:

• Familiarity with Cloud-based architecture and deployment (Amazon Web Services)
• Exposure to UX/design collaboration or wireframing tools
• Familiarity with domain knowledge surrounding government agency reporting and dissemination policies