Principal Systems Engineer (TS/SCI) – SAFe & Cloud

Associates Systems LLC; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Holiday pay

Job summary

Associates Systems LLC is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to lead systems engineering activities across the software development lifecycle. The role involves requirements traceability, performance analysis, system integration and test, and collaboration with agile teams to ensure delivery milestones are met.

The ideal candidate will have a STEM degree with 8+ years of relevant experience or an advanced degree with 5+ years, and possess active TS/SCI clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM).
• Experience with SAFe or similar lifecycle in large teams is preferred.
• Strong communication with Agile teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Execute multiple aspects of the systems engineering discipline including support of software development activities.
• Perform requirements traceability into software functions and system interfaces.
• Coordinate with agile teams regarding risks, issues, and delivery milestones.
• Document system architecture artifacts and network routing details.
• Support validation through system integration and test activities.

Skills

Systems engineering

Agile development

Requirements traceability

System performance analysis

System integration & test

Communication

Leadership

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Advanced degree in STEM

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

JAMA

Job description

All Qualified candidates will be responded to in 24 hours or less
An active and transferable TS/SCI clearance is required prior to start date
Onsite in State College, PA or Richardson, TX
Employment type: Full Time w-2 or Contract
Rate: open to Negotiation
Benefits: including Health, Dental Vision, PTO, Holiday etc...
An active and transferable TS/SCI U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.
Principal systems engineer
The principal systems engineer will execute multiple aspects of the systems engineering discipline, to include support of software development activities, requirements traceability into software functions, system performance analysis, and system integration and test activities to ensure system requirements achieve validation
• The system engineer will interact with the agile development teams regarding technical considerations, risks, and issue closure associated with the system capabilities and features
• The candidate must also possess the ability to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, effectively network, and communicate to the appropriate levels of the organization and support schedules and delivery milestones
• Perform engineering activities utilizing agile tools: JIRA, CONFLUENCE, JAMA
• Perform engineering activities utilizing Cloud environments, tools, and associated procedures


• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and 8 years of prior relevant experience, OR an Advanced degree and 5 years of relevant experience.
• Experience performing engineering activities within the full software development engineering lifecycle utilizing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) development methods as a System Engineer.
• Experience with requirement creation as well as decomposition of capabilities into features and the development of acceptance criteria for software and test development teams to ensure all requirements have a path for verification via acceptance criteria.
• Experience documenting systems interfaces, network routing details and developing system architecture artifacts, Experience in agile development activities, including requirements specification and integration test and verification activities (full life cycle)
• An active and transferable TS/SCI U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.

Pluses
• Experience in Intelligence Community IC) GEOINT, including familiarity with common data formats and products
• Experience in SIGINT, GEOINT, or Multi-INT IC background analysis with end user mission experience
• Experience in a technical leadership role of a large multi-disciplined engineering team
• Experience with cloud - based system and S/W architectures
• Experience with requirements management and / or backlog management and grooming in JIRA
• Experience in Multi-INT Sensemaking, Orchestration, and Processing concepts
• Experience in development of containerized software system architectures
• Experience using MBSE processes and tools to digitally capture systems design and elaboration in Cameo or similar tools
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