System Engineer SME

Basic Qualifications:

An individual must meet the following criteria to be considered:

• U.S. Citizen

• Pass a background investigation.

• Possess an active TS/SCI Full Scope Poly (or FSP eligible) security clearance.

• Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline. Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

• Twenty (20) Years of experience in programs and/or contracts of similar scope within the Federal Government

Job Highlights:

Join our System Engineering team to help architect and engineer systems that utilize existing and emerging technologies. As a key member of our team, you'll engage in analyzing user requirements, leading design activities, and providing technical leadership, all while ensuring the integrity of our systems engineering endeavors. If you have a passion for innovation, we invite you to be part of our dynamic team shaping the future of technology.

Key Job Functions:

• Analyzes user requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications.

• Analyze system requirements and lead design and development activities.

• Guide users in formulating requirements, advise alternative approaches and conduct feasibility studies.

• Provide technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology.

• Incorporate new plans, designs, and systems into ongoing operations.

• Work as part of a team with project managers and customers to fulfill requirements.

• Develop technical documentation.

• Develops system Architecture and system design documentation.

• Guides system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans.

• Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and associated problems, issues, or conflicts.

• Ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility.

• Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts.

• Contribute to the development of sections of systems engineering documentation such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements specifications, and Interface Control Documents

• Manage system requirements and derived requirements to ensure the delivery of production systems that are compatible with the defined system architecture(s) – Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), etc

• Assist with the development of system requirements, functional requirements, and allocation of the same to individual hardware, software, facility, and personnel components.

• Coordinate the resolution of action items from Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews that require cross discipline coordination.

• Participate in an Integrated Product Team to design new capabilities based upon evaluation of all necessary development and operational considerations.

• Participate in the development of system engineering documentation, such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements Specifications, and Interface Control Documents

• Participate in interface definition, design, and changes to the configuration between affected groups and individuals throughout the life cycle.

• Allocate real-time process budgets and error budgets to systems and subsystem components.

• Derive from the system requirements and understanding of stakeholder needs, functions that may be logically inferred and implied as essential to system effectiveness.

• Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements that describe in detail the functions that a system component must fulfill, and ensure these requirements are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable.

• Generate alternative system concepts, physical architectures, and design solutions.

• Participate in establishing and gaining approval of the definition of a system or component under development (requirements, designs, interfaces, test procedures, etc.) that provides a common reference point for hardware and software developers.

• Define the methods, processes, and evaluation criteria by which the systems, subsystems, and work products are verified against their requirements in a written plan.

• Develop a system design solution that satisfies the system requirements and fulfills the functional analysis.

• Develop derived requirements for Information Assurance Services (Confidentiality, Integrity, Non-repudiation, and Availability); Basic Information Assurance Mechanisms (e.g., Identification, Authentication, Access Control, Accountability); and Security Mechanism Technology (Passwords, cryptography, discretionary access control, mandatory access control, hashing, key management, etc.)

• Review and provide input to program and contract work breakdown structure (WBS), work packages, and the integrated master plan (IMP)

• Provides technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of specific components of complex hardware/software systems to include requirements elicitation, analysis, and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management as well as end-to-end flow analysis.

• Develop and implement comprehensive SOA solutions.

• Develop and implement operational view, technical standards view, and system and services view for architectures using applicable DoDAF standards.

• Develops scenarios (threads) and an Operational Concept that describes the interactions between the system, the user, and the environment, that satisfies operational, support, maintenance, and disposal needs.

• Review and/or approve system engineering documentation to ensure that processes and specifications meet system needs and are accurate, comprehensive, and complete.

• Conduct quantitative analysis in non-functional system performance areas like Reliability, Maintainability, Vulnerability, Survivability, Producibility, etc.

• Establish and follow a formal procedure for coordinating system integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfaces.

• Captures all interface designs in a common interface control format, and stores interface data in a commonly accessible repository.

• Prepare time-line analysis diagrams illustrating the flow of time-dependent functions.

• Establish a process to formally and proactively control and manage changes to requirements, consider impacts prior to commitment to change, gain stakeholder buy-in, eliminate ambiguity, ensure traceability to source requirements, and track and settle open actions.

• Assess each risk to the program and determine the probability of occurrence and quantify consequence of failure in accordance with an approved risk management plan.

• Manage and ensure the technical integrity of the system baseline over time, continually updating it as various changes are imposed on the system during the lifecycle from development through deployment and operations & maintenance.

• Plan the verification efforts of new and unproven designs early in the development life cycle to ensure compliance with established requirements.

• Support the planning and test analysis of the DoD Certification/Accreditation Process (as well as other Government Certification and Accreditation (C&A) processes)

• Support the development and review of Joint Capability Integration Development System (JCIDS) documents (i.e., Initial Capability Document, Capabilities Description Document, IA Strategy)

• Provides technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of all components of complex hardware/software systems to include requirements elicitation, analysis, and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management as well as end-to-end flow analysis.

• Conducts and/or approves end-to-end system trade analyses to optimize system operations over its life cycle through the proper balance of non-functional system performance areas.

• Improve standard integration strategies based upon rationale for previous decisions that resulted in improved integration performance.

• Fully define interfaces in terms of origination, destination, stimulus, and data characteristics for software, and electrical and mechanical characteristics for hardware

• Use validated models, simulations, and prototyping to mitigate risk and reduce cost of system development.

• Develop alternative courses of action, workarounds, and fallback positions with a recommended course of action for each risk, and monitor and re-evaluate risks at appropriate milestones. Monitors risks using earned value management (EVM) data.

• Maintain knowledge of current and evolving agency, national, and international standards applicable to the system development of interest. Apply and enforce the use of suitable standards to ensure consistency and interoperability of developer hardware and software.

• Ensure effective, periodic review and control of the evolving configuration of a system, both hardware and software components and associated documentation, during the life of the system

• Recommend solutions based on selection criteria adjusted for reasonableness and validity of assumptions, technology limitations, environmental impact, and life cycle costs.

• Develop system design alternatives that consider life cycle cost, reuse, complexity, risk, system expansion, and growth.