Systems Engineer Technical Lead with Security Clearance

System Engineer Technical Lead
Top Secret
On-site - Chantilly, Or Alexandria, VA Email:
DOD 8570 Certification (Security+ or equivalent or higher) ALTA IT is looking for a System Engineer Technical Lead to join our team responsible for the integration, operations, and sustainment of various operational and in-development systems.
This client has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the modernization of a geospatial product supporting mission-critical operations. The candidate will provide leadership to invigorate technical innovation and must be willing to drive smart change to support a collaborative and innovative culture to provide our customers with optimal solutions that meet their strategic goals. A successful candidate will have experience with the Microsoft technology stack, AWS services, and related software and networking design and implementation.
Responsibilities:
Primary responsibilities will involve taking a leadership role in system assessment, recommendations, and solution implementation.

• Become a subject matter expert (SME) for the baseline, with the ability to communicate the system's features, architecture, roadmap, and limitations to a variety of audiences

• Decompose requirements, use cases, and need statements into epics and features with clearly defined acceptance criteria that will be assigned to agile development teams

• Take part in the migration of a legacy systems to model cloud-based architectures, leveraging modern cloud-native technologies.

• Ensure the security, reliability, and maintainability of internally facing applications and services

• Ability to clearly describe and analyze a problem and to articulate a solution

• Provide hands-on technical support to the team (systems engineering, software development, testing)

• Execute analysis of alternatives (AoA) and prototypes to determine the design of new system features and capabilities

• Participate and provide subject matter expertise in technical exchange meetings and other customer or stakeholder forums

• Manage the system requirements and maintain technical requirement documents

• Create and communicate design artifacts to the team to ensure applications and services are built to support the business and architecture objectives

• Provide subject matter expertise and support agile development teams in the continuous integration of epics and features
Required Qualifications:

• Must possess an active Top Secret Security Clearance with the ability to obtain SCI post-hire

• Requires a BS in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, or closely related discipline and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Master with 6+ years of prior relevant experience; OR 10 years of experience in lieu of a degree

• DOD 8570 Certification (Security+ or equivalent or higher)

• Experience with Microsoft .NET ecosystem tools such as VB .NET, C , C , Visual Studio, WPF

• Firm understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, and design patterns

• Experience designing and developing UI/UX that simplify complex workflows while keeping designs flexible

• Experience working with large code bases

• Experience writing testable software

• GIS experience and knowledge of roaster and imagery

• Experience with System (hardware, software and networking) Design and Architecture

• Experience developing a technical roadmap

• Ability to lead and prioritize systems engineering and architecture requirements

• Database experience such as PostgreSQL

• Web Application and application workflow experience

• Experience preparing presentations and leading technical exchange meetings

• Excellent communication skills

• Experience briefing stakeholders at all levels

• Knowledge of Systems, Architectural, SW Development and SW Sustainment methodologies and practices

• Proficient in software development projects or software integration projects in a service-oriented environment (Cloud, SOA, Web-Services) or virtualization environment.

• Experience with AWS architectures and technologies

• Familiar with Amazon Web Services (S3 Buckets, EC2, Reserved Instances, etc.)

• Familiar with Git/GitLab or other source code control tools

• Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, diagrams, etc.)

• Familiar with team collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence)
Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading systems engineering support for geospatial products

• Experience writing, maintaining, and presenting architectural diagrams

• Microsoft certification(s)

• AWS certification (e.g. Solutions Architect, Developer, DevOps Engineer)