Senior Systems Engineer — Mission-Critical Architect

Amentum; Maryland; On-site; USD 204,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

401(k) matching

Educational reimbursement

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Disability and life insurance

Job summary

Amentum is seeking a seasoned Systems Engineer to drive architecture, design, and modernization of mission applications in Maryland. You will bridge operational concepts and technical execution by analyzing requirements, creating CONOPs, ICDs, and user guides, and collaborating across leadership levels.

Requires 14+ years in SE, a Bachelor's degree (or 5 years substitute), and TS//SCI w/FSP clearance. Expect a competitive compensation package and a strong benefits program.

Qualifications

• Experience with agile methodologies and decomposing requirements into epics, use cases, and user stories.
• Experience creating and editing technical documentation such as CONOPS, ICDs, Test Plans/Results, and System Diagrams.
• Strong written and verbal communication with stakeholders at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Provide systems engineering expertise in architecture, design, development, modernization, requirements analysis, data flow, testing and implementation of mission applications
• Analyze mission, user, and operational requirements to develop system requirements specifications
• Design and implement solutions addressing HOW functional needs are incorporated within the product suite
• Identify how capabilities can be integrated across new baselines
• Collaborate with development teams in an agile framework creating epics, features, user stories, tests, tickets, etc.
• Identify dependencies across requirements and customers for product development
• Work with Atlassian tool suite (JIRA & Confluence) to track requirements
• Create and maintain systems engineering artifacts including CONOPS, ICDs, Test Plans/Results, User Guides, System Diagrams

Skills

Agile methodologies

Requirements analysis

Communication skills

Systems engineering artifacts

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering or related field

Five years SE experience substituted for degree

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Amentum is seeking a seasoned Systems Engineer to drive architecture, design, and modernization of mission applications in Maryland. You will bridge operational concepts and technical execution by analyzing requirements, creating CONOPs, ICDs, and user guides, and collaborating across leadership levels.

Requires 14+ years in SE, a Bachelor's degree (or 5 years substitute), and TS//SCI w/FSP clearance. Expect a competitive compensation package and a strong benefits program.