Chief Systems Engineer
Washington, DC

Job Description

Job Description

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  



Overview

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability