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System Engineer

Level

1

Job Location:

Fort Meade or National Business Park area

Job Type:

Full time in-person

Clearance:

Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph

Description

  • Analyze 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.

  • Develop technical documentation.

  • Develop system architecture and system design documentation.

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

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

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

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

Work Experience

Specialty Experience

  • None required

Relevant Experience

  • Requirements Management: Manage system requirements and derived requirements to ensure compatibility with defined system architectures (DoDAF, SOA, etc.).

  • Documentation Development: Contribute to the development of systems engineering documentation, including System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements specifications, and Interface Control Documents.

  • Requirements Development & Allocation: Assist in developing system and functional requirements and allocating them to individual hardware, software, facility, and personnel components.

  • CCB Coordination: Coordinate resolution of action items from Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews requiring cross-discipline coordination.

  • Integrated Product Team Participation: Participate in Integrated Product Teams to design new capabilities based on evaluations of development and operational considerations.

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

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

  • Verification Planning: Define methods, processes, and evaluation criteria for verifying systems, subsystems, and work products against their requirements in a written plan.

  • System Design Development: Develop system design solutions that satisfy system requirements and fulfill functional analysis.

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

  • Interface Management: Participate in interface definition, design, and configuration changes throughout the system lifecycle.

  • Stakeholder Needs Analysis: Derive an understanding of stakeholder needs, functions, and implied requirements essential to system effectiveness from system requirements.

  • Requirement Derivation & Validation: Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements, ensuring they are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable.

  • System Definition & Approval: Participate in establishing and gaining approval of the definition of a system or component, including requirements, designs, interfaces, test procedures, etc., providing a common reference point for development teams.

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

Education

  • Seven (7) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required

  • Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required

  • Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Marquee Defense is an equal opportunity employer (EEO)

All 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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