Parallel Partners
Specializes in IT staffing for finance/trading
Junior/Senior Systems Engineer
On-site role in Herndon, Virginia. TS/SCI clearance required; CI Polygraph may be needed.
About the job
- Must have a current TS/SCI security clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline. In lieu of a degree, four additional years of experience may be substituted.
- Need 5+ to 10+ years of experience.
- Experience performing most aspects of the system engineering including requirements analysis, interface control documentation, ConOps development, Use Case development, data flows and developing Test Plans.
- Familiarity with a Requirements Tool.
- Scrum/Agile Development (Jira).
- Familiar with deployment and maintenance of Development, Test and Operational environments.
- Provide systems engineering and enterprise architecture support to customers.
- Work with customers to improve their architecture and engineering workflows and processes with the identification or design of processes and tools.
- Be responsible for articulating and capturing the architecture, system requirements, system design, and testing approach.
- Investigate and capture "As Is" architecture or workflows; identify "To Be" states; and make recommendations on transition from "As Is" to "To Be".
- Develop standard and repeatable processes, as appropriate, to recommend architecture, engineering, development and integration projects. Familiarity with System V and how that is used to develop products in order to apply it to customer practices.
- Produce and support leadership team in the identification and creation of Enterprise Architecture Repository artifacts as required.
- Support engineering review boards.
- Certification in Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
- Familiar with Aerospace Engineering and space operations is a big plus.
- Worked on a team using Agile or SAFe development processes.
- Familiar with Enterprise Architecture concepts, System Engineering Principles as depicted in the System V, and MBSE realization in a model.
About the company
Parallel Partners and Next Step Systems recruit information technology professionals for full-time permanent roles in the financial services and trading industries. They match IT talent with roles at hedge funds, trading firms, banks, brokerages, and data providers across the U.S., using nationwide searches from their Chicago area offices. The firms differentiate themselves through a focused niche in financial technology recruiting, deep client and candidate networks, and a high rate of repeat business after long-standing partnerships (and after the 2014 acquisition that expanded resources). Their goal is to place top IT professionals into permanent positions at leading financial technology firms and strengthen leadership in IT recruiting.
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Headquarters
Dallas, Texas
Founded
2014
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- PP updated its site August 2026, signaling active positioning and sales motion.
- The firm offers three deal types, expanding addressable opportunities across acquisitions and partnerships.
- Its agentic-first narrative matches buyer interest in workflow automation and operating leverage.
What critics are saying
- Parallel Partners lacks visible customers, revenues, or completed transformations in public materials.
- A 2025-founded firm with no disclosed funding faces execution risk before product-market proof.
- Equity-heavy deals expose PP to dead capital if transformations stall by 2027.
What makes Parallel Partners unique
- Founded 2025 in Amsterdam, Parallel Partners acquires, rebuilds, or co-builds mid-market businesses.
- PP only earns through equity or revenue-share, aligning incentives with operator outcomes.
- PP replaces processes, not overlays software, with agentic-first transformations across EU and US.
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