Junior Systems Engineer - Agile Delivery (Mission-Critical)

InterImage; Corridor North (MD); On-site; USD 94,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

InterImage in Maryland's Corridor North is seeking a Junior Systems Engineer to support TO-005, RAD, and help oversee the planning, design, and implementation of a mission-critical system. You will work directly with customers, systems engineers, developers, and the UX team to define, build, test, and deliver mission-driven software, actively participating in Agile ceremonies.

The salary range is $94,213 to $122,500, with final compensation based on experience and location; the role emphasizes

Qualifications

• Elicit and document functional requirements from government/customer stakeholders.
• Translate requirements into Jira user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Perform functional/manual testing of application features.
• Familiar with Agile methodologies and collaboration tools such as Jira/Confluence.
• Strong written and verbal communication; present technical work to non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiar with software concepts including Java/JavaScript and RESTful microservices.

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.

Skills

Requirements gathering

User story creation

Functional testing

Agile / Scrum

Communication

Java/JavaScript basics

RESTful APIs

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

InterImage in Maryland's Corridor North is seeking a Junior Systems Engineer to support TO-005, RAD, and help oversee the planning, design, and implementation of a mission-critical system. You will work directly with customers, systems engineers, developers, and the UX team to define, build, test, and deliver mission-driven software, actively participating in Agile ceremonies.

The salary range is $94,213 to $122,500, with final compensation based on experience and location; the role emphasizes