Intermediate Systems Engineer

About Farfield Systems, Inc

At Farfield, we are dedicated to providing reliable expertise to our government partners. As we expand, our emphasis is on enhancing opportunities for your professional development while maintaining the high standards our clients expect. We consistently assess our environment to ensure that your career is filled with growth opportunities, allowing you to showcase your dedication to our clients. We prioritize building a team where every employee is a valued contributor.

Farfield supports various agencies across the United States Government in numerous locations, offering diverse pathways for your career without the need to switch companies frequently.

"Employee driven...customer focused." We design, manage, and secure networks and infrastructure.

*** Requires a Top Secret/SCI clearance with a polygraph and U.S. Citizenship***

• Evaluates user requirements, operational concepts, and high-level system architectures to create system requirements specifications.
• Assesses system requirements and directs design and development efforts.
• Advises users in articulating requirements, suggests alternative methods, and conducts feasibility assessments.
• Provides technical guidance for the integration of requirements, design, and technology.
• Incorporates new strategies, designs, and systems into ongoing operations.
• Creates technical documentation.
• Develops system architecture and design documentation.
• Guides system development and implementation planning through the preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and testing plans.
• Engages with government representatives regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and related issues.
• Holds ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables within the Systems Engineering domain.
• Communicates effectively with program personnel, government representatives, and senior executives.

Essential Qualifications:

• A minimum of fourteen (14) years of experience as a Systems Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
• A Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related field from an accredited institution is required.
  • Five (5) years of additional Systems Engineering experience may substitute for a bachelor's degree.
• Manage system requirements and derived requirements to ensure the delivery of production systems that align with defined system architectures – Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), etc.
• Contribute to the creation of sections of systems engineering documentation such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements Specifications, and Interface Control Documents.
• Assist in developing system requirements, functional requirements, and allocating these 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 necessitate cross-discipline collaboration.
• Participate in an Integrated Product Team to design new capabilities based on evaluations of all necessary development and operational considerations.
• Allocate real-time process budgets and error budgets to systems and subsystem components.
• Generate alternative system concepts, physical architectures, and design solutions.
• 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 system design solutions that meet the system requirements and fulfill the functional analysis.
• Review and provide input to program and contract work breakdown structures (WBS), work packages, and the integrated master plan (IMP).
• Engage 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 among affected groups and individuals throughout the lifecycle.
• Derive from the system requirements an understanding of stakeholder needs and functions that may be logically inferred and essential to system effectiveness.
• Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements that detail the functions a system component must fulfill, ensuring these requirements are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable.
• 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.
• 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.).
• Implement comprehensive SOA solutions.
• Implement operational view, technical standards view, and system and services view for architectures using applicable DoDAF standards.
• Review and/or approve system engineering documentation to ensure that processes and specifications meet system needs and are accurate, comprehensive, and complete.
• Capture all interface designs in a common interface control format and store interface data in a commonly accessible repository.
• Assess each risk to the program and determine the probability of occurrence and quantified consequence of failure in accordance with an approved risk management plan.
• In conjunction with system stakeholders, plan the verification efforts of new and unproven designs early in the development life cycle to ensure compliance with established requirements.
• 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, considering impacts prior to commitment to change, gaining stakeholder buy-in, eliminating ambiguity, ensuring traceability to source requirements, and tracking and settling open actions.
• 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.
• 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).
• Provide technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of specific components of complex hardware/software systems, including 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 scenarios (threads) and an Operational Concept that describes the interactions between the system, the user, and the environment, satisfying operational, support, maintenance, and disposal needs.
• Conduct quantitative analysis in non-functional system performance areas such as Reliability, Maintainability, Vulnerability, Survivability, and Produceability.
• Establish and follow a formal procedure for coordinating system integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfaces.

Farfield Systems is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants who are unable to utilize our online application system due to a disability.

Farfield Systems is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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