What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Systems Engineer position at Smart Synergies?
Client is looking for a Principal Systems Engineer to join our systems engineering team. Our Engineers support technical direction and design to software agile development teams, and other Engineering personnel. They perform technical analyses and define how the system works creating use cases, system capability and feature designs, defining system interfaces and acceptance criteria. In this role, the candidate will provide engineering support for the implementation of a portion of the program's systems engineering. To succeed in this role, you must have systems engineering development lifecycle experience using an Agile methodology. The position is full time, on-site in Richardson TX.
Collaborate with the multi discipline engineering teams to design and develop software
Assist in providing technical information and clarification during the entire software development Lifecyle; from conceptualization and design to development, testing, deployment, and operations
Perform solution decomposition from customer epics, to capabilities, to features, to stories according to SAFe Agile practices
Apply systems engineering expertise to feature designs to reduce overall risk to the software development effort
Engage with SMEs from other disciplines to fully understand the solution and document the designs.
Qualifications You Must Have
Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws / regulations; or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 6 years' experience
An active and transferable TS / SCI U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance."
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)
Domain experience in IC GEOINT, including familiarity with common GEOINT still imagery data formats
Experience in development of ICDs, APIs, and system specifications as a primary author
Experience using the Atlassian tool suite, including Jira and Confluence
Experience in cloud or cloud-hybrid deployment environments
Ability to interact effectively with customer and consumer communities for technical exchange meetings and design briefings
Experience working in an Agile development team environment with multi-discipline engineers and stake holders, developing system solutions to meet customer requirements, requirements decomposition, and experience with CONOPS development
Experience working on teams addressing solution definition, decomposition, design and acceptance criteria
Experience in development of containerized software system architectures
Ability to function independently in the development and revisions of existing ICDs, APIs, and system specifications in response to contract mods
Program experience with requirements development and / or requirements maintenance
Qualifications We Prefer
Experience with streaming data formats including Full Motion Video and Moving Target Indicator data
Strong communications skills to support technical exchange meetings and design briefings
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 MBSE processes and tools to capture systems design and elaboration in Cameo or similar tools
Domain experience with active data types supported by NSGPDDs
Thorough understanding of the 12 Factor App concepts for service development
Strong experience with Confluence as a communications medium
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