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Arcfield · 3 months ago

Systems Engineer Expert

Herndon, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Arcfield is a company focused on protecting the nation and its allies through various innovative technologies. They are seeking a Systems Engineer Expert to provide systems engineering, architectural design, UI/UX design, and compliance management to support digital transformation activities for their business system enterprise.

ConsultingManagement Consulting

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Define and maintain system standards and architectural principles to develop, implement, and maintain applications, systems, and/or service components

Create and maintain system documentation such as wikis, system Concept of Operations (CONOPS) documentation, system/application design documents, and interface control documents (ICDs)

Create and maintain system/application design diagrams that illustrate dependencies and data flows within the BSE and external systems

Analyze business functionality and provide alternative solutions for architecture and process improvements that promote integration and innovation, to include cost benefit analysis

Create and maintain a backup and recovery strategy for the BSE

Participate in engineering reviews, design reviews, technical exchange meetings, and working group meetings that could affect the operation and configuration of the BSE

Plan, design, and analyze the integration of new components into existing applications, systems, and/or service components, to include installing and/or removing existing integrated components

Evaluate and understand Sponsor corporate IT initiatives to inform and advise Sponsor management. This shall include project-level technology roadmap planning and implementation of next-generation technology

Perform system and performance testing for all deployed solutions within the business system enterprise including testing continuously from development through deployment, to include a full range of system testing activities

Provide and document a total system perspective, including relationships, dependencies, and requirements of hardware and software components

Identify and ensure that all subsystems work together to function as a single system

Research and consider COTS and internally developed solutions to solve integration problems and/or meet system requirements

Ensure all portals integrate effectively with existing enterprise systems and data stores to achieve a well-connected, secured, and controlled enterprise of systems

Ensure services development follow best practices for development, test, configuration control, release, and change management processes, and enforce SLAs

Identify, develop, coordinate, deliver, maintain, and update required interface specifications, including the definition of services, data flows, and dependencies for internal and external service providers

Engineer, develop, integrate, deploy, and maintain internal software code, as necessary, to successfully integrate COTS products and associated updates

Ensure all deployed solutions are compliant with applicable Sponsor IT Standards and Guidelines Comply with Section 508 Compliance and conduct usability analysis that leads to intuitive interfaces, which improve user experience for applications, systems, and/or service components of the Sponsor’s BSE

Monitor and track system performance in accordance with established system performance criteria. If systems are not operating up to their baseline performance, the Contractor shall be proactive in determining and resolving the issue

Maintain multiple availability zones and/or data centers used, as appropriate in order to meet availability requirements listed in Appendix I. Meet all Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), based on the system Criticality Level for IT Capability (CLIC) level

Develop a change management strategy to facilitate user acceptance of new systems and releases in accordance with Sponsor IT standards

Identify technical transition issues associated with the deployment of new system/application releases and develop deployment plans to address those issues

Develop, maintain, and execute a Configuration Management (CM) Plan that is consistent with configuration and complexity of the systems/applications hosted within the BSE and in compliance with Sponsor guidance

Qualification

Systems engineeringArchitectural designUI/UX designCompliance managementConfiguration managementPerformance testingChange managementCOTS integrationUser experience focusTeam collaborationProblem solvingCommunication skills

Required

Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI with polygraph clearance

A bachelor's degree in systems engineering, computer science, computer information systems, or computer engineering

Ten (10) to twelve (12) years of relevant experience

Minimum of five (5) years of experience supporting technical programs in a systems engineering capacity executing full lifecycle engineering tasks, requirements analysis and systems design, and /or cost/benefit analysis

Preferred

Three (3) years of experience actively supporting technical projects within the Intelligence Community that required an understanding of systems engineering principles and practices

An active certification relative to system engineering, system architecture, system administration, or computer science