Senior Systems Engineer

Solidus Technical Solutions - State College, PA

Full-time - Senior

State College, PA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Systems Engineer at Solidus plays a crucial role in supporting the technical direction and design for software agile development teams. This position involves performing technical analyses, defining system capabilities, and creating use cases and acceptance criteria. The engineer will provide support for the implementation of systems engineering within the program, ensuring that the software development lifecycle is effectively managed using Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• 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, features, and 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 them into the feature designs for the agile development teams.
• Engage with SMEs from other disciplines to fully understand the solution and document the designs.

Requirements

• 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 stakeholders, 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 lifecycle.

Nice-to-haves

• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Generous PTO
• Outstanding benefits