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Systems Engineer (SE) - Skill Level 3

Annapolis Junction, Maryland, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 16 Jul 2026

About the role

Kaizen Approach is currently seeking a Systems Engineer (SE) to analyze user requirements and develop system requirements, architectures, and technical solutions that support mission-critical programs. In this role, you'll evaluate operational concepts, analyze system requirements, lead design and development activities, and provide technical leadership throughout the integration of requirements, design, and emerging technologies. You'll develop system architecture, engineering, integration, testing, and technical documentation while guiding implementation planning and incorporating new systems into ongoing operations. This position involves serving as the primary technical authority for Systems Engineering efforts, collaborating with Government stakeholders and program teams, resolving technical issues, and ensuring the technical integrity of all engineering deliverables.

Requirements:

Must have the ability to manage system and derived requirements to ensure production systems align with defined architectures, including DoDAF and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), while developing, implementing, and maintaining operational, technical standards, system, and services views using applicable DoDAF standards and comprehensive SOA solutions.
Must possess the ability to develop, contribute to, review, and approve systems engineering documentation, including System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements Specifications, Interface Control Documents, Joint Capability Integration Development System (JCIDS) documents, concepts of operation, interface standards, system architectures, and written verification plans that ensure requirements, processes, and specifications are accurate, complete, and meet mission needs.
Must be capable of eliciting, analyzing, deriving, allocating, managing, and controlling system, functional, lower-level, and Information Assurance requirements; establishing approved system baselines; maintaining traceability; managing requirement changes; developing system design solutions and alternatives; and ensuring requirements are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, verifiable, and aligned with stakeholder needs throughout the system lifecycle.
Must have the ability to provide technical direction for the engineering, development, interfacing, integration, testing, assessment, and management of complex hardware and software systems; participate in Integrated Product Teams (IPTs); coordinate Configuration Control Board (CCB), design, program, and test review actions; define and manage interfaces; capture interface designs in a common repository; establish formal integration processes across multiple teams; serve as a CCB member; and ensure the technical integrity and configuration control of hardware, software, documentation, and system baselines throughout development, deployment, operations, and maintenance.
Must possess the ability to perform risk management by assessing program risks, determining probability and consequences of failure, developing mitigation strategies, alternative courses of action, workarounds, and fallback positions, monitoring risks using Earned Value Management (EVM) data, conducting end-to-end trade studies, quantitative analyses of non-functional performance areas such as reliability, maintainability, vulnerability, survivability, and producibility, leveraging validated models, simulations, and prototypes to reduce risk and cost, and recommending preferred Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) solutions based on lifecycle cost, technology limitations, environmental impact, and selection criteria.
Must be capable of planning verification efforts for new and unproven designs, preparing timeline analysis diagrams, supporting DoD and Government Certification and Accreditation (C&A) processes, developing operational scenarios and concepts that address operational, support, maintenance, and disposal needs, allocating real-time process and error budgets, generating alternative system concepts, physical architectures, and design solutions, and reviewing program Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), work packages, and Integrated Master Plans (IMP).
Must have the ability to maintain knowledge of current and evolving agency, national, and international standards; apply and enforce appropriate standards to ensure interoperability and consistency across developer hardware and software; interact with stakeholders to establish approved system definitions; fully define software and hardware interfaces; support lifecycle system expansion and growth considerations; and continually improve integration strategies based on lessons learned