What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal System Engineer position at Acro?
The Advanced Programs organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in mathematics. Our team is chartered with providing innovative technologies to develop, design, and produce optimized product lines across multiple customers while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Advanced Programs is looking for new members to join our rapidly growing technical team as a Systems Engineer based out of Boulder, CO.
Essential Functions :
The selected candidate will be the point of contact for aspects of systems engineering with a focus on managing and leading agile processes for the program. The responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following :
- Implement and manage Agile practices across all AP 2025 IRAD projects
- Plan, coordinate, lead program increments across all AP 2025 IRAD projects
- Manage workflows 1) within teams, 2) between teams, and 3) across work centers using Jira Scrum and Kanban boards
- Increase throughput by identifying constraints, mitigate dependencies causing bottlenecks, and reducing wait time
- Identify opportunities to standardize recurring processes
- Schedule and lead program increment (PI) planning and backlog reviews
- Experience with managing and pruning backlog
- Facilitate project leads with time phasing milestones and develop / map epics, features, stories to milestones
- Creates Confluence and Jira templates for project leads
- Coordinate multiple agile teams to ensure alignment with agile practices
- Drive continuous improvement by enhancing processes, removing impediments, and optimizing value delivery
- Act as a key liaison between teams and stakeholders to help navigate organizational challenges
- Foster a culture of respect and psychological safety to enable collaboration among individuals on the train
- Experience with Lean and Scaled Agile Framework approaches
- Understand project budget and how budgeting works within an agile environment
- Experience with transitioning mature teams from Waterfall to Agile
- Create metrics beneficial to managing project progress and identifying efficiencies and inefficiencies
- Derive and allocate requirements into detailed design.
- Oversees and manages the engineering design, development of software, systems, and hardware engineering.
- Drives the engineering process development, continuous improvement, and affordability initiatives within their program.
- Communicates regularly with program management, customers, and engineering management.
- Coordinates with HW / SW team to perform retests and regression tests once defects are corrected.
- Generates applicable documentation.
- Provides problem resolution and improvement recommendations with strong time management skills.
This requisition may be filled at either a Principal Systems Engineer or a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer level.
BQs for a Principal Systems Engineer :
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