System Engineer 1 (OCONUS)

Description

We are searching for cleared professionals who are passionate about their work and ready to take the next step in their careers! The talented individuals we hire at Synergy are provided with a multitude of contract opportunities from developing tip-of-the-spear capabilities to providing support for ongoing mission-critical operations. With high demand from our National Security customers for our talent and expertise, our employees are shaping the future in support of our customer’s most critical needs and are working with some of the best and brightest in the industry. 

What you will be doing:

Synergy is seeking an experienced System Engineer to be responsible complex systems for SIGINT solutions within ongoing mission-critical OCONUS field support. This work is on a new Prime Contract, and we are actively staffing for this opportunity! 

If you’re ready to step into a new and exciting role as part of a highly skilled OCONUS field team, then we want to hear from you and learn more about your experience!

You will analyze user requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications. Analyze system requirements and lead design and development activities. Guide users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches and conducts feasibility studies. Provide technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology. Incorporate new plans, designs, and systems into ongoing operations. Develop technical documentation. Develop system Architecture and system design documentation. Guide system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans. Interact with the Government regarding System Engineering technical considerations for associated problems, issues, or conflicts. Ultimately responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the System Engineering area of responsibility. You will communicate and interact with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior level executives.

Requirements

 
Requires seven (7) years of experience as a Systems Engineer on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity. A Bachelor’s degree in Communication Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional Hardware Engineer experience on projects with similar scope, type, and complexity may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Required Capabilities:

• Manage system requirements and derived requirements to ensure the delivery of production systems that are compatible with the defined system architecture(s) – Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), etc.
• Contribute to the development of system engineering documentation such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capability Documents, requirement 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 the 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 solutions that satisfy the system requirements and fulfill 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 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, and functions that may be logically inferred and implied as essential to system effectiveness.
• Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level al