Systems Engineer - TS/SCI | Mission-Critical Modernization

Amentum; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 204,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off and holidays

401(k) matching

Educational reimbursement

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Tax-saving options

Disability and life insurance

Pet insurance

Job summary

Amentum is seeking a senior Systems Engineer in Maryland to drive architecture, design, and modernization of mission applications. You will translate user requirements into actionable epics and user stories, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and maintain critical engineering artifacts such as CONOPS and ICDs.

You will work in an environment emphasizing rigorous requirements analysis, system integration, and effective communication with leadership and stakeholders, ensuring solutions meet

Qualifications

• Experience working with software deployment teams and subject matter experts.
• Experience with agile methodologies, capturing system requirements and decomposing them into derived requirements, epics, user stories, and test cases.
• Experience managing requirements to ensure delivery of products and systems that are compatible with the system architecture.
• Experience creating and/or editing technical documentation such as CONOPS, ICDs, Test Plans/Results, User Guides, System Diagrams, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels of knowledge and leadership.
• Ability to apply critical thinking to information and recommend appropriate actions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall systems engineering expertise in architecture, design, development, modernization, requirements analysis, data flow, testing and implementation of mission applications.
• Analyze mission, user, and operational requirements, CONOPs, and high-level system architectures 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.
• Work 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 the Atlassian tool suite to track requirements (JIRA & Confluence).
• Create and maintain systems engineering artifacts including CONOPS, ICDs, Test Plans/Results, User Guides, System Diagrams, etc.

Skills

Systems engineering

Agile methodologies

Requirements management

Technical documentation

Communication skills

Critical thinking

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Amentum is seeking a senior Systems Engineer in Maryland to drive architecture, design, and modernization of mission applications. You will translate user requirements into actionable epics and user stories, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and maintain critical engineering artifacts such as CONOPS and ICDs.

You will work in an environment emphasizing rigorous requirements analysis, system integration, and effective communication with leadership and stakeholders, ensuring solutions meet