Senior Systems Engineer – Stakeholder Engagement

Benz Technology Inc; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 170,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) vested day one

Paid time off 28 days

Tuition reimbursement

Training & development budget

Company tenure 28 years

Job summary

Benz Technology Inc in Fort Meade, Maryland seeks a Senior Technical Lead to elicit requirements, decompose complex programs, and drive migrations from planning through execution.

The role sits at the intersection of engineering and communication, translating technical concepts for executive audiences while managing detailed project work in an agile environment. You will collaborate across teams, produce clear design artifacts, and brief leadership on status and risks.

Qualifications

• Experience elicitation and stakeholder facilitation.
• Executive-level written and verbal communication.
• Project decomposition and task tracking in JIRA.
• Whiteboarding and visual process modeling.
• Experience leading or supporting system migrations.
• Coordinate across teams to align engineering with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Decompose large-scale projects and track work using JIRA.
• Communicate technical concepts and project status clearly to executive-level audiences.
• Lead whiteboarding sessions to map processes, architectures, and system designs.
• Plan and execute system migrations with minimal disruption to operations.
• Produce clear written documentation including requirements, design artifacts, and briefings.
• Coordinate across teams to align engineering efforts with stakeholder needs.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder facilitation

Executive communication

JIRA tracking

Whiteboarding

System migrations

Decomposition & planning

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Fort Meade, MD TS/SCI with Polygraph Full-Time $170,000 – $215,000 Actively hiringActive TS/SCI clearance required. Benz Technology is unable to sponsor security clearances. U.S. citizenship required.About the RoleYou will serve as a senior technical lead responsible for eliciting and decomposing requirements, facilitating stakeholder alignment, and driving complex system migrations from planning through execution. This role sits at the intersection of engineering and communication, requiring the ability to translate technical concepts for executive audiences while managing detailed project work in an agile environment.ResponsibilitiesFacilitate requirements-gathering sessions with technical and non-technical stakeholdersDecompose large-scale projects and track work using JIRACommunicate technical concepts and project status clearly to executive-level audiencesLead whiteboarding sessions to map processes, architectures, and system designsPlan and execute system migrations with minimal disruption to operationsProduce clear written documentation including requirements, design artifacts, and briefingsCoordinate across teams to align engineering efforts with stakeholder needsRequired QualificationsRequirements elicitation and stakeholder facilitationExecutive-level written and verbal communicationProject decomposition and task tracking in JIRAWhiteboarding and visual process modelingExperience leading or supporting system migrationsDesired QualificationsEnterprise-level IT or systems experience in a DoD or federal agency environmentCloud computing architecture experience, preferably AWSExperience analyzing, configuring, and integrating high-performance computing systemsWhy engineers join Benz15% employer 401(k) — vested day one, no match required28 paid days off per year$7,500 annual tuition reimbursement$2,500 training & development budget28 years in business — our engineers stay through recompetes