Description
JOB DESCRIPTION:
The Chief Systems Engineer is responsible for planning, directing and coordinating activities associated with custom application development, testing, and transition; and supporting the client’s business analysis activities. This includes research and development in emerging technologies; managing technical standards; and drafting and implementing policies, procedures, and guidelines. The Chief Systems Engineer will implement SAIC designs and processes, provide technical coordination, and support project management.
Job Specific Responsibilities:
Establishes systems, standards, requirements, guidelines, and quality assurance for software deliverables, such as conceptual design and architecture, logical database, capacity planning, external interface specifications, data migration plan, and security policy
Works with clients to translate business requirements into a logical model that will accurately support and represent the client’s use cases
Developing functional process diagrams
Implements compliance procedures according to all applicable cybersecurity and Information assurance (IA) policies and directives
Oversee the development of comprehensive test cases to include testing scenarios for both normal and degraded (e.g., disaster recovery, continuity of operations, data recovery/spills, etc.) operations, pass/fail criteria, performance criteria, capacity planning, measurement criteria, results analysis procedures, and results/status reporting criteria
Interfaces with system owners during Agile development
Performs requirements analysis to capture and incorporate component system of systems testing criteria into integration testing scenarios
Documents the implementation of approved changes to system configurations, software, and infrastructure as directed
Assists with providing ongoing progress to leadership, system owners, and peers regarding health and status of the environment
Researches and analyzes emerging technologies, techniques, and protocols and makes recommendations
Assists with procurement of hardware, software, and services
VENDORS/TOOLS/MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Software development tools, such as Eclipse
Databases
Microsoft Office Suite
Agile tools, such as Jira and Confluence
STIG or equivalent cybersecurity assessment
Continuous integration / continuous deliver (CI/CD) tools, such as Jenkins
Automated testing tools, such as Selenium
TECHNOLOGIES & PROTOCOLS
Java
Development and optimization
Analysis and testing
Virtualized/cloud based environments
Automated testing tools, such as Selenium
Installation, upgrades and patching
Configuration and monitoring
Applying cybersecurity guidance
IMPACT:
Develops advanced technological ideas and guides their development into a final product.
Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically results in failure to achieve critical organizational objectives and affect image of organization's technological capability.
Serves as organization spokesperson on advanced projects and/or programs.
Acts as adviser to management and customers on advanced technical research studies and applications.
Qualifications
TYPICAL EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Bachelors and eigtheen (18) years or more experience; Masters and sixteen (16) years or more experience; PhD or JD and fifteen years or more experience
CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT:
Public Trust L5 Security Clearable
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:
Possess a Bachelor’s Degree or Higher in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and a minimum of eighteen years of practical experience in Applications and Software Development.
Experience with Agile development
Knowledge of a wide variety of technologies to host container services and registries, cloud infrastructure
Knowledge of best practices to include DevOps, continuous deployment and continuous integration services, code repositories, and security vulnerability identification to support the cloud infrastructure.
Experience in working clients to translate business requirements into a logical model that will accurately support and represent the client’s use cases
Experience developing functional process diagrams
Experience complying with all applicable security and information assurance (IA) / cybersecurity policies and directives
Must be an independent self-starter with strong initiative
Must have strong writing / reporting and verbal communication skills
Must be able to perform in a high-pressure fast-paced environment
Must be able to quickly learn and apply new tools and technologies
Must be flexible in a constantly changing business landscape
Must have strong customer service orientation
TECHNICAL SPECIALTIES
Agile Engineering - Level 2: 3-6 yrs
Change Management - Level 2: 3-6 yrs
Decision Support Analysis - Level 2: 3-6 yrs
Engineering - Architecture Development - Level 3: 6-10 yrs
Plan of Actions and Milestones (POA&M) - Level 2: 3-6 yrs
Requirements Development - Level 3: 6-10 yrs
Requirements Engineer - Level 2: 3-6 yrs
Requirements Management - Level 3: 6-10 yrs
Virtualization - Level 2: 3-6 yrs
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:
Agile or DevOps certification
Scrum Master certification
Experience with Development and Deployment of FAA / FAA NAS systems
Demonstrated experience briefing senior leaders
Demonstrated experience with risk analysis
Knowledge of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends
Experience with multi-tiered application environments with SQL, Web services, Web API, HTML5, and XML development