Senior System Engineer Level 6

Leidos is hiring a Sr Systems Engineer in the Ft. Meade area, MD. An active TS/SCI with polygraph is required to be considered for this role.

Program Summary
 

Leidos is a preferred subcontractor on a large, multi-year contract that develops, integrates deploys, and sustains large collection systems.

Significant requirements include Mission Management, Operations, and Sustainment activities. The team will provide 24x7x365 support to multiple Operations Teams and will feature 1st/2nd/3rd Party Partner Engagement.

Responsibilities could include...

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

• 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

• Review and provide input to program and contract 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

• 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); Basic Information Assurance Mechanisms (e.g., Identification, Authentication, Access Control, Accountability); and Security Mechanism Technology (Passwords, cryptography, discretionary access control, mandatory access control, hashing, key management, etc.)

• Implement comprehensive SOA solutions

• Implement operational view, technical standards view, and system and services view for architectures using applicable DoDAF standards

• Capture all interface designs in a common interface control format, and store interface data in a commonly accessible repository

• Assess each risk to the program and determine the probability of occurrence and quantified consequence of failure in accordance with an approved risk management plan

• Establish a process to formally and proactively control and manage changes to requirements, consider impacts prior to commitment to change, gain stakeholder buy-in, eliminate ambiguity, ensure traceability to source requirements, and track and settle open actions

• Support the planning and test analysis of the DoD Certification/Accreditation Process

• Support the development and review of JCIDS documents

• Provide technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of specific components of complex hardware/software systems to include requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management as well as end-to-end flow analysis

• Develop scenarios (threads) and an Operational Concept that describes the interactions between the system, the user, and the environment, that satisfies operational, support, maintenance, and disposal needs

• Establish and follow a formal procedure for coordinating system integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfaces

• Develop operational view, technical standards view, and system and services view for architectures using applicable DoDAF standards

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