Senior Systems Engineer 6 — TS/SCI | Mission-Critical Gov IT

DCCA; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 240,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement plan

Life insurance

Education assistance

Wellness initiatives

Paid leave

Job summary

DCCA is a veteran-owned IT business delivering innovative solutions to government agencies and commercial enterprises since 1982. We are seeking a Systems Engineer 6 in Maryland to join a high-profile government program, with an active TS/SCI w/Poly requirement for this role.

You will lead release planning, architecture discussions, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver capability releases and robust system designs.

Qualifications

• Must have working knowledge of systems engineering, software engineering, build systems.
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
• Experience with software architecture and design patterns is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and monitor software release and test schedules across multiple systems and instances.
• Develop strategy and roadmap toward capability releases and create discreet work packages for a 20-person product team.
• Understand program objectives and communicate them to team members.
• Present product progress at SAFe events (PI planning, sprint reviews, MRR).
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline the software development lifecycle.
• Define designs to meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Collaborate with PAs to analyze technical trade-offs.
• Manage changes to software, hardware, and documentation with version control and baselines.
• Evaluate strategies for entity interfaces, names, and numbers.

Skills

Systems engineering

Software architecture

CI/CD

REST APIs

Git/GitLab

Jira

Confluence

SAFe

Documentation

Networking

Tools

Git

GitLab

Jira

Confluence

SharePoint

Job description

DCCA is a veteran-owned IT business delivering innovative solutions to government agencies and commercial enterprises since 1982. We are seeking a Systems Engineer 6 in Maryland to join a high-profile government program, with an active TS/SCI w/Poly requirement for this role.

You will lead release planning, architecture discussions, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver capability releases and robust system designs.