Principal Systems Engineer

TransTechSol, LLC; Maryland; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

TransTechSol, LLC seeks a Senior Systems Engineer for an on-site role in Annapolis Junction, MD. You will design, implement, and maintain complex systems supporting compliance-driven missions and DoD standards.

You will lead system architectures, perform engineering analysis, mentor teammates, and collaborate with mission owners and cybersecurity specialists to ensure performance and documentation alignment with DoD policies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 20 years of systems engineering experience in Federal programs.
• Bachelor’s degree requirement with 5 years substitution allowed for the degree requirement.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain complex systems for DoD compliance programs.
• Document system architectures and develop technical roadmaps; coordinate with stakeholders.
• Mentor technical team members and provide advanced troubleshooting.
• Ensure alignment with Department of Defense policies and standards.
• Perform systems engineering analysis and support system administration activities.

Skills

DoDAF standards

Systems integration

Requirements analysis

Risk management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field

Job description

Company Description

TransTechSol, LLC (TransTechSol.com) was founded upon a culture that values transparency, alignment, expertise, decisiveness, and accountability. We pride ourselves on gaining, maintaining, and growing our talent to deliver forward-thinking solutions that lead to the next generation of technology, policy, and ultimately signals intelligence capabilities. We are considered a leader in compliance in the cryptologic community by both our clients and competitors.

Role Description

The Senior Systems Engineer is a full-time, on-site role based in Annapolis Junction, MD. This position is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining complex systems that support compliance-driven missions, including infrastructure planning, systems integration, and performance optimization. Day-to-day tasks include performing systems engineering analysis, supporting system administration activities, and providing advanced technical support and troubleshooting for production and test environments. The role involves collaborating with mission owners, cybersecurity and compliance specialists, and other engineering teams to document system architectures, develop technical roadmaps, and ensure alignment with Department of Defense policies and standards. The Senior Systems Engineer will also contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, prepare technical documentation, and mentor other technical team members.

Qualifications

• Provide technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of all components of complex hardware/software systems. Includes requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management as well as end-to-end flow analysis
• Create operational view, technical standards view, and system and services view for architectures using applicable DoDAF standards
• Develop scenarios (threads) and an Operational Concept that describes the interactions between the systems, the user, and the environment that satisfies operational, support, maintenance, and disposal needs
• Review and/or approve systems engineering documentation to ensure that processes and specifications meet system needs and are accurate and comprehensive
• Conduct quantitative analysis in non-functional system performance areas like reliability, maintainability, vulnerability, survivability, producibility, etc.
• Establish and follow a formal procedure for coordinating system integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfaces
• Capture all interface designs in a common interface control format, and store interface data in a commonly accessible repository
• Prepare time-line analysis diagrams illustrating the flow of time-dependent functions
• Establish a process to formally and proactively control and manage changes to requirements, consider impact prior to commitment to change, gain stakeholder buy-in, eliminates ambiguity, ensure traceability to source requirements, and track and settle open actions
• Assess each risk to the program and determine the probability of occurrence and quantified consequence of failure in accordance with an approved risk management plan
• Manage and ensure the technical integrity of the system baseline over time, continually updating it as various changes are imposed on the system during the lifecycle from development through deployment, operations and maintenance
• In conjunction with system stakeholders, plan the verification efforts of new and unproven designs early in the development life cycle to ensure compliance with established requirements
• Support the planning and test analysis of the DoD Certification and Accreditation Process (as well as other Government Certification and Accreditation processes)
• Support the development and review of Joint Capability Integration Development System (JCIDS) documents (i.e., Initial capability document, capabilities description document, IA strategy)

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 20 years of systems engineering experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity within the Federal government
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field is required. Five (5) years additional systems engineering experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Desired Qualifications

• Technical certification as a Certified System Engineering Professional from INCOSE, DAWIA SPRDE Level 2, or other equivalent certification
• Familiarity with agile development process
• Demonstrated experience in planning and leading systems engineering efforts

Security Clearance

TS/SCI and Special Security Accesses and Polygraph required