Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer:

The Senior Systems Engineer will create and maintain accurate records in JIRA and Confluence of past, existing and planned work in the form of Solution Epic Light Weight Business Cases, Solution Epic Minimum Viable Product Functions, Program Epic Light Weight Business Cases, and Program Epic Minimum Viable Product Functions and Features.

Ensures all elements of this taxonomy are linked correctly in parent-child relationships and that all dependencies are reflected in the appropriate JIRA fields, along with the correct Tags and Labels for each record.

Ensures that all team members operate on a set of common principles: a fixed schedule, an increment every two weeks, a common PI length, a known velocity using SAFe Core Values, face-to-face PI planning, a demonstrated capability at the end of each development segment, a well understood and consistent cadence and monitoring of all testing schedules.

Creates and maintains documentation detailing all dependencies and inter-relationships between development activities/release trains and other-than release trains. Maintaining awareness, tracking, and coordination of these inter-dependencies and required capabilities is critical to overall success.

Ensure associated risks and opportunities are entered and tracked in the IPA Risk and Opportunities Management Board (ROMB) Coordinates with Product Owners and Feature Support Engineers and schedule/conduct RTM meetings and review/approval boards for each development cycle including Sprints and Program Increments. These boards will be required for preparing and orchestrating features for future execution and demonstrating capability for those features that have already been accomplished and need government approval prior to the next step in fielding new capability.

Coordinates with other Agency’s capabilities and offices where we are leveraging their existing services and adding capability to their baseline. To this end, the Contractor shall support all management activities to synchronize development activity with the other Agency’s Program Office and monitor the status of capability backlogs, prioritization, and successful uploads of RTM capabilities to the Agency’s operational instance.

Ensures all architecture and other system documentation is captured in a standardized and available format for supported release trains

Works at the RTM level to support all Engineering requirements for that particular RTM scope.

Works with other system engineers under other Release Trains and vendor engineers, along with Government Mission and Product owners to ensure accurate translation of requirements into Program Epics and Features

Required Education/Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree plus 8+ years of experience, or Masters plus 5+years of experience in government Program and Information Technology or a related field. No degree with 15 years of relevant experience.

• Experience in leading tasks for modifying complex applications programs from specifications and Discrepancy Reports.

• Experience drafting detailed application program coding specifications.

• Experience working to integrate development efforts across multiple systems/segments.

• Demonstrated experience and thorough understanding of the NSG Tasking, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TPED) mission and the systems that enable that mission

Location:

• Chantilly, VA - This position is 100% onsite

Clearance:

• Must have an Active TS/SCI

Future Position / Salary Range: This is a future/anticipated role. The expected salary range is $160,000–$200,000 annually. Final salary will be determined once the candidate’s experience level and alignment with the position requirements are determined.