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Momentum Engineering

Designs secure cloud-based data architectures

Systems Engineer 2

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/8/2026
$165k - $210k/yr
Expert
Bachelor's
Annapolis Junction, MD, USA
In Person
No H1B Sponsorship
US Top Secret Clearance Required

About the job

Requirements
  • Must have an active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph.
  • Fourteen years of experience as a systems engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity are required.
  • A bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university is required; five years of additional systems engineering experience may substitute for the bachelor's degree.
  • Three years of experience in the legal or technical aspects of Intelligence Community Privacy Compliance are required.
  • Two years of experience with NSA systems architecture are required.
Responsibilities
  • Manage system requirements and derived requirements to ensure production systems are compatible with defined system architectures, including the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) and service-oriented architecture (SOA).
  • Contribute to systems engineering documentation, including System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, requirements specifications, and Interface Control Documents.
  • Assist in developing system and functional requirements and allocating them to hardware, software, facility, and personnel components.
  • Coordinate resolution of action items from Configuration Control Board meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews requiring cross-discipline coordination.
  • Participate in an Integrated Product Team to design new capabilities based on 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 methods, processes, and evaluation criteria for verifying systems, subsystems, and work products against requirements in a written plan.
  • Develop system design solutions that satisfy system requirements and fulfill functional analysis.
  • Review and provide input to program and contract work breakdown structures, work packages, and the integrated master plan.
  • Participate in interface definition, design, and configuration changes among affected groups and individuals throughout the lifecycle.
  • Derive stakeholder needs and essential system functions from system requirements.
  • Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements, ensuring they are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable.
  • Participate in establishing and obtaining approval of system or component definitions, including requirements, designs, interfaces, and test procedures, as a common reference for hardware and software developers.
  • Develop derived requirements for Information Assurance Services (confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, and availability), Basic Information Assurance Mechanisms (identification, authentication, access control, and accountability), and security mechanism technologies (passwords, cryptography, discretionary access control, mandatory access control, hashing, and key management).
  • Implement comprehensive service-oriented architecture solutions.
  • Implement operational, technical standards, and system and services views for architectures using applicable DoDAF standards.
  • Review or approve systems engineering documentation to ensure processes and specifications meet system needs and are accurate, comprehensive, and complete.
  • Capture interface designs in a common interface control format and store interface data in a commonly accessible repository.
  • Assess program risks by determining their probability of occurrence and quantified consequences of failure in accordance with an approved risk management plan.
  • Plan verification efforts with system stakeholders for new and unproven designs early in the development lifecycle to ensure compliance with established requirements.
  • Prepare timeline analysis diagrams illustrating the flow of time-dependent functions.
  • Establish a formal process to proactively control and manage requirement changes, assess impacts before committing to changes, gain stakeholder approval, eliminate ambiguity, ensure traceability to source requirements, and track and settle open actions.
  • Manage and maintain the technical integrity of the system baseline over time, updating it as changes occur throughout development, deployment, and operations and maintenance.
  • Support planning and test analysis for the Department of Defense Certification/Accreditation Process and other government certification and accreditation processes.
  • Support development and review of Joint Capability Integration and Development System (JCIDS) documents, including Initial Capability Documents, Capabilities Description Documents, and IA Strategies.
  • Provide technical direction for developing, engineering, interfacing, integrating, and testing components of complex hardware/software systems, including requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, systems requirements reviews, concepts of operation, interface standards, system architectures, technical/non-technical assessment and management, and end-to-end flow analysis.
  • Develop scenarios (threads) and an Operational Concept describing interactions among the system, user, and environment while satisfying operational, support, maintenance, and disposal needs.
  • Conduct quantitative analysis in non-functional system performance areas, including reliability, maintainability, vulnerability, survivability, and producibility.
  • Establish and follow a formal procedure for coordinating system integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfaces.

About the company

Momentum Engineering builds secure, cloud-based data engineering solutions that help clients run mission-critical analytics and improve software performance. Its offerings center on designing robust data architectures and data-driven engineering methodologies, implemented through DevOps and DevSecOps practices to ensure reliable, measurable performance. The company differentiates itself by focusing on secure architectures tailored to clients' needs, rigorous evaluation and validation of data-driven approaches, and a client-focused service model with collaborative culture and profit-sharing to attract top talent. The goal is to provide dependable data infrastructure and engineering processes that enable better analytics outcomes and software reliability for engineers, analysts, developers, and instructors.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Columbia, South Carolina

Founded

2015

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What believers are saying

  • 2026 job postings show active hiring for cloud and data engineering roles.
  • The company targets DoD and Intelligence Community programs, where switching costs stay high.
  • Employee benefits and profit-sharing strengthen retention against larger federal contractors.

What critics are saying

  • Momentum Engineering is tiny; one lost prime subcontract can crush utilization quickly.
  • Website lists no public funding, making growth dependent on contract wins and renewals.
  • Security-cleared staffing is fragile; clearance attrition or contract recompetes can force layoffs within months.

What makes Momentum Engineering unique

  • 2025 website claims over a dozen DLA, DHS, and NSA subcontract engagements.
  • LinkedIn lists 2015 founding, 11-50 employees, and Columbia, Maryland headquarters.
  • Jobs emphasize TS/SCI, full-scope polygraphs, and secure AWS data pipelines.

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Benefits

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan