A day in the life consists of:

• Support rapid prototyping, proof of concept, engineering, architecture, and emerging technology requirements for continued modernization of customer mission
• Perform enterprise and thread level analysis, engineering, architecture, and technology transfer evaluations.  
• Establish and share best practices and principles to guide the architecture, system designs, software development, requirements management, usability, implementation, and deployment strategies.   
• Provide engineering analysis to ensure adherence to foundation requirements (e.g. Compliance, architecture, quality, technical). 
• Interact with product teams and stakeholders to implement established guidance, practices, and standards into viable processes and solutions. 

You will excel in this role if you are:

• Detail Oriented: You focus on details and have a keen eye for understanding mission nuance, and are able to present materials effectively to diverse audiences of technical team members and customers
• Interested in Data: You have a strong interest in data design, formats and automation
• Embracing Emerging Technology: You will leverage your knowledge and skills in modern technologies to create a step function increase in mission effectiveness
• A Technical Leader & Mentor: You have a passion for leading technical team efforts toward agile and iterative solutions, enjoying the journey as much as the destination
• Well-Rounded: You bring in-depth software engineering experience together with practical systems engineering experience across multiple and varying technologies and disciplines
• Agile: You enjoy working as part of a team to develop solutions for government customers who have fluid priorities of national significance
• Motivated: You want to continually learn new things, work with new technologies and solve unprecedented problems

What we are expecting from you:

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering field and 20 years of systems engineering experience OR Master’s Degree and 18 years of systems engineering experience
• Experience in requirements analysis and strategic planning
• Experience in dataflow architectures
• Experience in risk management and risk assessments
• Experience evaluating operation and technical trade-offs
• Agile/SCRUM team process leadership experience

Nice to have:

• Software development experience
• Experience in IC mission (Cyber)
• Working knowledge of Frameworks (Git, Hibernate, Nexus, Eclipse)
• Working knowledge of data interchange formats (JSON, Apache Avro, XML)
• Working knowledge of data environments (Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, Splunk)
• Experience with modern change management tools and processes (CICD) process