Principal Systems Engineer with Security Clearance

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Job description

Solidus is searching for a Principal Systems Engineer who will execute multiple aspects of the systems engineering discipline, to include requirements decomposition into software functions, system performance analysis and trade studies, oversight of software development and system integration and test activities to ensure system requirements closure. The system engineer will interact with the agile development teams, program leadership and customer regarding technical considerations, risks, and issue closure associated with our portfolio capabilities. This position is located in State College, Pennsylvania, Aurora, CO, or Richardson, TX. Candidates must be able to work on-site. Day in the life: - In this role you will work with the customer and engineering leadership to perform analysis necessary to define and document requirements for software releases; work with the Requirements Manager to ensure up to date requirements traceability matrices are in place; assist in the creation/management of a project schedule based on development and release activities. - Multi-task, adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, effectively network, and communicate to all levels of the organization and drive processes to successful completion in support of schedules - Responsible for contributing to the technical planning and capability / feature designs, and technical detailing for the agile development teams. - Work on a cloud solutions, where parts of the system will be on the Cloud environment and other portions remain on a hardware environment - Utilize knowledge of networking, infrastructure, cyber security, software design and architectures What you will bring to the role: - US Citizenship and an Active Top Secret Clearance (TS/SCI preferred) - Bachelor's in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 5 years' experience - System engineering full life cycle experience and technical leadership experience in development of large software systems. Experience with: - Supporting agile development activities, including requirements specification and integration test and verification activities (full life-cycle) - Requirements derivation, capability development-analyze complex requirements and determine viable solutions - Decomposing customer epics into capabilities that can then be decomposed by the development teams into actionable features and stories for development - Systems design and specification experience, CONOPS development and large-scale distributed software system experience - Defining acceptance criteria for capabilities that can be detail designed and developed by external teams - Conducting design and/or modeling activities, interpreting customer needs, and converting them to achievable requirements - Maintaining technical cost and schedule for systems engineering and software integration Preferred: - SIGINT, GEOINT, or Multi-INT Intelligence Community (IC) background analyst with end user mission experience - Experience in a technical leadership role of a large multi-disciplined engineering team - Experience with cloud-based S/W architectures and systems - Experience using Architecture Frameworks and modeling resources and methodologies like Cameo, Enterprise Architect, Rhapsody, etc. for definition of large systems with complex integration and interoperability challenges. - Experience developing MBSE and/or DoDAF operational views for overview and details - AWS cloud experience - AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation - Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience, as a System Engineer or working directly with in such roles - Experience using modeling resources Experience using Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.), and evaluation of COTS / FOSS applications What we will bring: Solidus offers you an exciting opportunity to tackle the nation's greatest challenges applying innovation and expertise to produce cutting-edge results that have a long-lasting impact. We offer outstanding benefits, generous PTO and much more! Apply today to learn why Solidus has a 4.9/5 Star rating on Glassdoor! Req ID: 4871 Solidus is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities regarding all terms and conditions of employment to all employees and qualified applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. The Company will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation. Please Note: Solidus does not accept applications from agencies, 3rd party vendors, or applications with incomplete information.

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