Software Systems Integration Engineer

General Dynamics IT; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 92,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Health and wellness packages

Internal mobility team

Paid education and certifications

Cutting-edge technology exposure

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

General Dynamics IT in Merrifield, VA seeks a Software Systems Integration Engineer to support USPS projects. You will monitor risks, identify application, infrastructure, integration, vendor, and organizational dependencies, and assess their impact on business-driven delivery timelines.

Responsibilities include critical-path analysis, risk burndown planning, and coordinating subject-matter experts to resolve issues, while supporting production incidents, releases, and implementation readiness.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Minimum of 7 years' experience in enterprise software development.
• Required Certifications: SAFe RTE, SAFe Architect, PMI ACP.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring technical and operational risks.
• Identifying dependencies across applications, infrastructure, integration, vendors, and organization.
• Assessing the effect of dependencies on delivery timelines.
• Performing critical-path and schedule-feasibility analysis.
• Supporting risk-burndown planning and reporting.
• Coordinating subject-matter experts to investigate and resolve issues.
• Supporting production incidents, performance problems, defects, and maintenance.
• Reviewing requirements, changes, and cross-system impacts.
• Supporting release readiness and operational readiness.
• Providing evidence-based recommendations to management.
• Explaining timeline achievability and conditions.

Skills

Change Management

Problem Solving

Process Improvements

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Job description

Type of Requisition: Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: MBI (T2)

Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications

• Skills: Change Management, Problem Solving, Process Improvements
• Certifications: None
• Experience: 8 + years of related experience
• US Citizenship Required: No

Job Description

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Software Systems Integration Engineer supporting the United States Postal Service. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

Key Responsibilities

• Monitoring technical and operational risks
• Identifying application, infrastructure, integration, vendor, and organizational dependencies
• Assessing the effect of dependencies on business-driven delivery timelines
• Performing critical-path and schedule-feasibility analysis
• Supporting risk-burndown planning and reporting
• Coordinating subject-matter experts to investigate and resolve issues
• Supporting/Investigating production incidents, performance problems, defects, and maintenance activities
• Reviewing technical requirements, proposed changes, and cross-system impacts
• Supporting release readiness, implementation coordination, and operational readiness
• Providing evidence-based recommendations to management
• Explaining why a proposed timeline is achievable, achievable with conditions, or not achievable

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Education

A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is required.

Required Certifications

• One of the following: SAFe RTE (Release Train Engineer)
• SAFe Architect
• PMI ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner)

Or the ability to perform the following tasks

• Performing critical-path and schedule-feasibility analysis
• Supporting risk-burndown planning and reporting
• Identifying application, infrastructure, integration, vendor, and organizational dependencies
• Assessing the effect of dependencies on business-driven delivery timelines

Required Experience

• 8+ years of relevant experience
• Minimum of 7 years' experience in enterprise software development

Required Skills

The Software Systems Integration Engineer will heavily be using these skills:

• Governance and coordination
• Requirements and technical-review support
• Coordination of supplier and USPS technical teams
• Change and release-management support
• Dependency and risk management
• Readiness assessments
• Test and implementation coordination
• Documentation and status reporting

Must have experience working with, and developing complex enterprise software environments, including the ability to understand

• Application and server architecture
• APIs and system interfaces
• Databases and data flows
• Windows and/or Linux environments
• Network and infrastructure dependencies
• Production and test environments
• Cloud or hosted-system dependencies
• Release and implementation processes
• Third-party and vendor integrations

Occasional After-Hours Support

Required for

• Planned software releases
• Implementations
• High-priority production incidents
• Emergency issue resolution
• Critical stakeholder or operational events

Required Technical Skills

• Understand complex enterprise applications
• Identify technical dependencies and risks
• Evaluate whether proposed timelines are realistic
• Apply critical-path analysis
• Coordinate technical subject-matter experts
• Support production issues and application sustainment
• Explain technical constraints to the PMO and business stakeholders

Security Clearance Level

Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting. This position has a U.S. residency requirement . The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.

Location

Merryfield HQ
Engineering Building
8409 Lee Hwy, Merrifield, VA 22116

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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The likely salary range for this position is $92,307 - $124,887. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.