Solidus is searching for a Senior Systems Engineer. This team supports the technical direction and design to software agile development teams, and other engineering personnel. They perform technical analyses and define how the system works creating use cases, system capability and feature designs, defining system interfaces and acceptance criteria. In this role, the candidate will provide engineering support for the implementation of a portion of the program's systems engineering. To succeed in this role, you must have systems engineering development lifecycle experience using an Agile methodology.
This position is located in State College, Pennsylvania, Aurora, CO, or Richardson, TX. Candidates must be able to work on-site.
Day in the life:
Collaborate with the systems engineering teams to design and develop software
Assist in providing technical information and clarification during the entire software development lifecycle; from conceptualization and design to development, testing, deployment, and operations.
Perform solution decomposition from customer epics, to capabilities, to features, to stories according to SAFe Agile practices
Apply systems engineering expertise to feature designs to reduce overall risk to the software development effort
Engage with customer user representatives or subject matter experts to gather user needs and incorporate into the feature designs for the agile development teams
Engage with SMEs from other disciplines to fully understand the solution and document the designs.
What you will bring to the role:
US Citizenship and an Active Top Secret Clearance (TS/SCI preferred)
Bachelor's in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations; or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 3 years' experience
Demonstrated system engineering and technical experience with software systems development
Experience in:
Agile software development activities, including system level design specification and integration test and verification activities (full SE life-cycle)
Interacting across multiple engineering disciplines, including both programmatic and technical
Working in an Agile development team environment with multi-discipline engineers and stake holders, developing system solutions to meet customer requirements, requirements decomposition, and experience with CONOPS development
Working on teams addressing solution definition, decomposition, design and acceptance criteria
Performing design activities with cross-disciplined engineering teams
Working in the software development Lifecyle
Preferred:
SIGINT, GEOINT, or Multi-INT Intelligence Community (IC) background with end user mission experience
Experience in a technical role of a large multi-disciplined engineering team
Experience with cloud-based S/W architectures and systems is a plus
Experience developing MBSE and DoDAF artifacts
Background and experience successfully working with all levels of engineering development in large government software development programs as well as an individual contributor as part of an agile development team
Engineering experience working in the full software development lifecycle using Agile methodology that ensures high quality software is built and released to end-users quickly and within cost and schedule parameters
Experience using Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.), and evaluation of requirements decomposition, system architecture and system design
Experience using MBSE processes and tools to capture systems design and elaboration in Cameo or similar tool
Experience in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and/or micro-service based systems
What we will bring:
Solidus offers you an exciting opportunity to tackle the nation's greatest challenges applying innovation and expertiseto produce cutting-edge results that have a long-lasting impact. We offer outstanding benefits, generous PTO and much more! Apply today to learn why Solidus has a 4.9/5 Star rating on Glassdoor!
Req ID: 4872
Solidus is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities regarding all terms and conditions of employment to all employees and qualified applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. The Company will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.
Please Note: Solidus does not accept applications from agencies, 3rd party vendors, or applications with incomplete information.
