Junior Systems Engineer - Agile Stakeholder Liaison

InterImage; Maryland; On-site; USD 94,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

InterImage is seeking a Junior Systems Engineer in Maryland to support TO-005, RAD, and oversee planning, design, and implementation of mission-critical systems. You will work with customers, systems engineers, developers, and UX to ensure requirements are defined, built, tested, and delivered in an agile environment.

You will gather requirements, write user stories, participate in sprint planning, and help remove blockers while collaborating with UX and stakeholders to ensure usable,

Qualifications

• Elicit and document functional requirements from government customer and stakeholders.
• Translate requirements into Jira user stories and epics for development teams.
• Conduct functional/manual testing of application features.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.

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 stories

Sprint planning

Developer support

Initial testing

Customer presentation

UX collaboration

Agile ceremonies

Jira

Confluence

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

InterImage is seeking a Junior Systems Engineer in Maryland to support TO-005, RAD, and oversee planning, design, and implementation of mission-critical systems. You will work with customers, systems engineers, developers, and UX to ensure requirements are defined, built, tested, and delivered in an agile environment.

You will gather requirements, write user stories, participate in sprint planning, and help remove blockers while collaborating with UX and stakeholders to ensure usable,