System Engineer

Job Title:  System Engineer – Candidate Pool – 3   

Location:  Chantilly, VA

Security Clearance:  TS/SCI Required

Allen Integrated Solutions is currently creating a pool of candidates to work on a future contract, that we expect to begin in the near future.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Systems Engineer applies software, hardware, and standard information technology skills in the analysis, specification development, integration, and acquisition of systems for information management applications. Ensures that these systems and applications are compliant with standards for open systems architectures, reference models, and profiles of standards. Additionally, the contractor ensures that the programmatic value stream is accomplished to include delivery of software, hardware, firmware, and other artifacts as needed to define, implement, test, deploy, release, and operate AMT solutions.

DUTIES

• Coordinates and performs problem analysis, requirements analysis, design, modification, and adaption of system integration within and across multiple contracts.
• Leads integration and synchronization of capabilities across internal and external NGA operations, dependencies and services.
• Coordinates and performs capability demonstrations and approval boards leading to coherent deployment of services to operational environments.
• Supports THE OFFICE/CONTRACT in directing and managing resources responsible for the resolution of discrepancies and other required maintenance activities.
  • Tracks THE OFFICE/CONTRACT critical DRs and provides daily status to THE OFFICE/CONTRACT leadership team; coordinates with THE OFFICE/CONTRACT tier 2 and tier 3 support to ensure timely resolution of DRs
  • Tracks all THE OFFICE/CONTRACT major deliveries to ensure proper coordination with outage boards and customers. Oversees execution of Transaction Activity Plan (TAP) and return to operations following scheduled outages
• Works with the THE OFFICE/CONTRACT Mission Owner and Product Owners to access and discover NSG GEOINT knowledge, across all stages of the analytic lifecycle and offer innovative ideas for addressing mission challenges, across multiple instances of an application/solution per security domain (U, S/C, TS/SCI).
• Works with Product Owners/Feature Support Engineers to organize, orchestrate and oversee meetings and manage the JIRA review/approval boards for each RTM development cycle including Sprints and Program Increments. These boards will be required for preparing and orchestrating features for future execution. The AMT shall support THE OFFICE/CONTRACT in ensuring standardized use of boards, sprints, JIRA and confluence across all RTM teams.
• Ensures that the RTM teams operate on a set of common principles: a fixed schedule, an increment every two weeks, a common Program Increment (PI) length, a known velocity using SAFe Core Values, face-to-face PI planning, a demonstrated capability at the end of each development segment, a well understood and consistent cadence and monitoring of all testing schedules.
• Works at the Management Team level and provides guidance, direction and support to the RTM Teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree plus 10 years of experience, or Masters plus five years of experience in Government Program and Information Technology Management or a related field.
• Experience in leading team-tasks for modifying complex applications programs from specifications and Discrepancy Reports.
• Experience drafting detailed application program coding specifications using DoD standards.

Desired

• Experience working on all phases of applications programming activities, independent of supervisory guidance.
• Experience and thorough understanding of the NSG Tasking, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (TPED) mission and the systems that enable that mission.