Systems Engineer

Secure our Nation, Ignite your Future

Become an integral part of a diverse team while working at an Industry Leading Organization, where our employees come first.  At ManTech International Corporation, you’ll help protect our national security while working on innovative projects that offer opportunities for advancement.

Currently, ManTech is seeking a motivated, career and customer oriented Systems Engineer to join our team in the Ft. Meade, MD area. In this role you will be responsible for analyzing user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications. Ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Analyzes system requirements and leads design and development activities.

• Guides users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches, and conducts feasibility studies. 

• Provides technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology. 

• Incorporates new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations. 

• Develops technical documentation. 

• Develops system Architecture and system design documentation. 

• Guides system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans. 

• Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts.

• Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.

Basic Qualifications:

• Fourteen (14) years of experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. 

• Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. 

• Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Basic Intelligence Community compliance experience

• Ability to work independently with little to no direction

• Use multiple word processing and presentation tools (e.g., MS Word, Powerpoint, Adobe Pro).

• Use task tracking and documentation software (e.g., Confluence and JIRA).

• Basic familiarity with customer authorities demonstrated with practical experience.

• Engage with customers to understand problems and determine solutions based on existing documentation and guidance.

• Manage system requirements and derived requirements to ensure the delivery of production systems that are compatible with the defined system architecture(s) 

• Contribute to the development of sections of systems engineering documentation such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements specifications, and Interface Control Documents

• Assist with the development of system requirements, functional requirements, and allocation of the same to individual hardware, software, facility, and personnel components

• Coordinate the resolution of action items from Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews that require cross-discipline coordination

• Participate in an Integrated Product Team to design new capabilities based upon evaluation of all necessary development and operational considerations

• Allocate real-time process budgets and error budgets to systems and subsystem components

• Generate alternative system concepts, physical architectures, and design solutions

• Define the methods, processes, and evaluation criteria by which the systems, subsystems and work products are verified against their requirements in a written plan

• Develop system design solution that satisfies the system requirements and fulfills the functional analysis

• Review and provide input to program and contract work breakdown structure (WBS), work packages and the integrated master plan (IMP)

• Participate in the development of system engineering documentation, such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements Specifications, and Interface Control Documents

• Participate in interface definition, design, and changes to the configuration between affected groups and individuals throughout the life cycle

• ·Derive from the system requirements an understanding of stakeholder needs, functions that may be logically inferred and implied as essential to system effectiveness

• Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements that describe in detail the functions that a system component must fulfill, and ensure these requirements are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable

• Participate in establishing and gaining approval of the definition of a system or component under development (requirements, designs, interfaces, test procedures, etc.) that provides a common reference point for hardware and software developers

• Develop derived requirements for Information Assurance Services (Confidentiality, Integrity, Non repudiation, and Availability)

Security Clearance Requirements:

• Current/active TS/SCI with Polygraph

For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ManTech may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.

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