Principal Systems Engineer (IAC2224)

RII develops cutting-edge software for the government and military. We use agile development practices and user-centered design to create innovative software solutions for complex real-world problems. We're breaking through the big, slow status quo with transformative technology that fundamentally changes and improves the world.
We are looking for a committed Principal Systems Engineer to join our Systems Engineering team. Solve unique, challenging problems for our Defense and Homeland Security customers. Help manage large volumes of critical, real-time information about issues from global to local. Get s#it done.
This position requires a U.S. security clearance or the ability to obtain one. A top secret security clearance is preferred. Please note, you will be expected to be onsite in Alexandria, periodically. 

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Leading, coaching, evaluating, and mentoring a team of System Engineers
• Develop and capture system specifications and related formal and informal documentation to communicate system design concepts
• Contribute to developing integration & test plans / procedures / schedules
• Collect, organize, synthesize, and capture mission, user, and system requirements from multiple stakeholders to inform a unified product strategy through user-centered design principles and systems engineering best practices
• Participate in user engagement sessions with key stakeholders to design, deconflict, prioritize and validate product requirements at varying levels of fidelity
• Document high-level product strategies to convey key features, functions, and capabilities in a prioritized roadmap
• Generate user stories with clear acceptance criteria that trace to the product strategy / roadmap
• Decompose product strategy into detailed requirements that may be supplemented by user-centered design artifacts
• Ensure functional and non-functional requirements are understood and satisfied by working closely with the software design and development team during design and development process
• Capture system concepts, architectures, high-level, and detail designs by working directly with both software team leads and developers as well as subject matter experts
• Support development and validation of low to high-fidelity wireframes by working closely with User Experience (UX) experts in support of product implementation
• Contribute to organizing, capturing, and synthesizing concise and comprehensive system design artifacts throughout the development life cycle
• Communicate, evolve, and implement systems engineering processes across project teams
• Support continuous systems engineering, user experience, and Agile development processes
• Provide capabilities to trace and analyze coverage between user and system requirements; system design elements; system implementation; and system test artifacts. Identify, capture and evolve system performance requirements and design guidance to help achieve key performance parameters
• Contribute to key system execution and monitoring activities to help both understand and achieve desired system performance characteristics
• Provide engagement support with external systems providers where necessary to both establish and maintain successful external system connectivity

WHAT YOU HAVE DONE

• Performed requirements analysis for complex systems with multiple stakeholders
• Decomposed and generated low-level requirements needed for implementation
• Documented system and software designs at different levels of abstraction
• Collaborated with business, technical, and mission stakeholders to develop the optimal solution to an ill-defined problem
• Worked directly with end-users to elicit specified and derived user needs using exceptional communication skills
• Worked directly with software development personnel to elicit and capture detailed system design information
• Experience with integrating user-centered design principles into rapid software development

EVEN BETTER

• Documented RESTful API Interfaces
• Experience with API design and documentation best practices
• Developed and maintained project and corporate systems engineering processes
• Communicate system requirements and design to customers through briefings and presentations
• Performed as Project / Technical Lead Identify and reuse existing / emerging technologies
• Experience working on DoD/IC-related projects and programs
• Experience using Model Based Systems Engineering Approaches, in particular MagicDraw or C4 software architecture modeling approaches
• Experience using UML, SysML, or UPDM standards in an MBSE modeling environment
• Experience with system / process modeling packages such as ExtendSim, ProModel, or similar
• Experience with any of