Sr. Principal Systems Engineer (TS/SCI)

Paladin Consulting; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer to lead systems engineering efforts across multiple projects. In this role, you will work closely with agile teams and program leadership to ensure effective requirements management and integration testing. Your expertise in cloud solutions, cybersecurity, and software design will be crucial in driving project success. This long-term contract position offers the potential for hire and the opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment. If you're ready to take on a challenging role that leverages your technical leadership skills, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in systems engineering and leadership.
• Experience with cloud-based software architectures and Agile methodologies.
• Active Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) Security Clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Define and document requirements for software releases in collaboration with leadership.
• Contribute to technical planning and capability designs for agile development teams.
• Analyze complex requirements and derive actionable features for development.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Agile Development

Cloud Solutions

Cyber Security

Networking

Software Design

Requirements Derivation

Technical Leadership

Education

Degree in STEM

Advanced Degree in related field

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Bitbucket

Cameo

Enterprise Architect

Rhapsody

Job description

Job Title: Sr. Principal Systems Engineer
Work Location: Aurora, CO, Richardson, TX or State College, PA
Duration: Long-term contract with option to hire

Job Description:

The Principal Systems Engineer will execute multiple aspects of the systems engineering discipline, to include requirements decomposition into software functions, system performance analysis and trade studies, oversight of software development and system integration and test activities to ensure system requirements closure. The system engineer will interact with the agile development teams, program leadership and customer regarding technical considerations, risks, and issue closure associated with our portfolio capabilities. This position is for State College, Pennsylvania, Aurora, CO, and Richardson, TX.

Responsibilities:

• In this role you will work with the customer and engineering leadership to perform analysis necessary to define and document requirements for software releases; work with the Requirements Manager to ensure up to date requirements traceability matrices are in place; assist in the creation/management of a project schedule based on development and release activities.
• Multi-task, adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, effectively network, and communicate to all levels of the organization and drive processes to successful completion in support of schedules
• Responsible for contributing to the technical planning and capability / feature designs, and technical detailing for the agile development teams.
• Work on a cloud solutions, where parts of the system will be on the Cloud environment and other portions remain on a hardware environment
• Utilize knowledge of networking, infrastructure, cyber security, software design and architectures

Skills & Qualifications:

• An active Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) Security Clearance is required prior to start date.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years' experience
• System engineering full life cycle experience and technical leadership experience in development of large software systems.
• Experience supporting agile development activities, including requirements specification and integration test and verification activities (full life-cycle)
• Experience with requirements derivation, capability development-analyze complex requirements and determine viable solutions
• Experience decomposing customer epics into capabilities that can then be decomposed by the development teams into actionable features and stories for development
• Systems design and specification experience, CONOPS development and large-scale distributed software system experience
• Experience defining acceptance criteria for capabilities that can be detail designed and developed by external teams
• Experience conducting design and/or modeling activities, interpreting customer needs, and converting them to achievable requirements
• Experience maintaining technical cost and schedule for systems engineering and software integration

Preferred Qualifications:

• SIGINT, GEOINT, or Multi-INT Intelligence Community (IC) background analyst with end user mission experience
• Experience in a technical leadership role of a large multi-disciplined engineering team
• Experience with cloud-based S/W architectures and systems
• Experience using Architecture Frameworks and modeling resources and methodologies like Cameo, Enterprise Architect, Rhapsody, etc. for definition of large systems with complex integration and interoperability challenges.
• Experience developing MBSE and/or DoDAF operational views for overview and details
• AWS cloud experience - AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience, as a System Engineer or working directly with in such roles
• Experience using modeling resources Experience using Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.), and evaluation of COTS / FOSS applications

For more information or to view other opportunities, visit us at www.paladininc.com.
Paladin Consulting is an EEOC employer.