Lead Systems Engineer

Titan Technologies is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to support a mission-focused Government customer in delivering full lifecycle services that modernize and advance critical software capabilities. The role leads multi-discipline engineering efforts across requirements, design, integration, testing, and sustainment within a DevSecOps and Continuous Release approach, including planning and traceability for system improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-level engineering teams across requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, service development, integration, testing, evaluation, maintainability, and system-level analysis.
• Lead planning and traceability activities, including user requirements, architecture alignment, procedures, workflow reviews, and system improvement efforts.
• Oversee development of technical solutions and system designs based on requirements analysis and emerging technological opportunities.
• Support Government efforts to capture and translate mission and customer needs into systems and capability requirements, including allocating requirements to architecture components and supporting program execution.
• Contribute to systems integration across multiple systems, services, processes, and interfaces.
• Provide expertise in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management, and interface design.
• Conduct Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.
• Integrate multiple systems, services, processes, and interfaces within a Major Systems Acquisition across organizational and agency boundaries.
• Share all salient facts relevant to the task at hand to maintain transparency.
• Provide honest, frank feedback to Government leads on the achievability of deliverables within proposed timeframes.
• Communicate unexpected setbacks quickly and propose mitigation actions, incorporating lessons learned into future planning.
• Communicate with Government stakeholders on achievability of system and program goals, including setbacks and mitigation steps for impediments.

Requirements

• DoD TS/SCI clearance required.
• 5+ years developing system architecture and system design documentation.
• Experience working with and/or in the Intelligence Community (IC).
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agilist or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification.
• Strong knowledge of standard software development processes, including DevOps, requirements engineering, coding, documentation, configuration management, quality assurance, integration, and testing.
• Familiarity with U.S. Government information sharing frameworks, policies, and interoperability requirements.
• Familiarity with system modeling.

Technologies

• DevOps
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
• DevSecOps
• U.S. Government information sharing frameworks
• System modeling
• XML
• Build and automation tools
• Software development kits (SDK)
• Common programming languages

Education

BS degree with 8-12 years of prior relevant experience, or Master’s degree with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience.

Location and Experience

• Location: Reston, VA (onsite)
• Minimum Experience: 5 years

IT’s Great If You Also Have

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.
• Experience leading analysis of user requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level architectures to develop system requirements specifications.
• Experience with structured analytic techniques, XML, DevOps tools, build and automation tools, software development kits (SDK), and common programming languages, including demonstrated ability to build code collaboratively in team environments following agile or other standard methodologies.