Systems Engineer, SME

at  Chenega MIOS

FT. BELVOIR, VA

Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer’s core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!
Chenega IT Enterprise Services (CITES) offers forward-thinking technology solutions to federal agencies and the DoD. Formed in 2016 to serve federal customers CONUS, CITES has grown quickly into a best practices leader for the modern federal enterprise.
The Systems Engineer (SME) will have extensive experience in executing the full complement of systems engineering activities from requirements definition to architecture, design, implementation, and test, through deployment operations and support; implementing the Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition life cycle process through the appropriate application of laws, policies, directives, and guidance; and preparing recommendations with sufficient rationale to advise executive leader decisions that enable program success. The Systems Engineer (SME) must understand requirements definition and traceability (end-to-end process); be able to develop technical system development life cycle documentation; and have the knowledge and skills to define key processes to support all engineering aspects of program management, requirements management, test management, interface management, and baseline management operations, including assessing and overseeing the technical requirements, architecture, design, development, implementation, and test of system solutions, at the data, system, and infrastructure levels.

QUALIFICATIONS

• High school diploma or GED equivalent required.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 8+ years of relevant work experience required.
• 5+ years of DoD systems engineering support for IT-based systems.
• 3+ years of DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) support.
• IAT Level II required, IAT Level III preferred
• AWS Cloud certification preferred.
• Active or Interim Secret clearance required.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Broad and deep set of engineering expertise.
• Extensive experience in aligning systems engineering activities throughout the acquisition program life cycle phases.
• Strong coordination, organization, teaming, and communication skills.
• Strong customer service and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to listen and understand task descriptions and requests.
• Ability to explain problem resolutions.
• Ability to quickly respond to time-critical queries from leadership.
• Work independently without direct supervision or guidance.
  How you’ll grow
  At Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their careers to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn.
  We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers.

• Advise the government on current DoD policies and procedures to support major program decisions and recommend strategies and techniques for successful conclusions.
• Support all aspects of strategic planning, from the portfolio level to the project level, acquisition planning, system development, and stakeholder management.
• Set the conditions for systems engineering execution across the program.
• Lead key processes, including Change Management, Demand Management, Requirements Management, Release Management, and Configuration Management.
• Lead/conduct requirements traceability and analysis, architecture (system, data, technical) design, development, verification and validation, deployment, change management, and transition activities by applying a broad and deep set of engineering expertise.
• Ensure compliance with DoD and Army architectures and acquisition policies addressed in the DoD 5000 and 8000 series.
• Apply DoD systems engineering practices and policies across all activities to ensure developed products are compliant with directives and mandates.
• Ensure consistency across engineering and acquisition documentation.
• Apply cloud-based data and database technologies, data standards, and best practices while adhering to applicable DoD laws, policies, directives, mandates, and guidance, to include data protection of sensitive information (e.g., personally identifiable information (PII)).
• Develop data architecture and design products.
• Identify data migration strategies to transition data from legacy systems and technologies to advanced, enterprise-based solutions.
• Reconcile data models and de-duplicate data stores where multiple exist.
• Define test procedures/scripts and establish associated data sets in support of integration, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing.
• Collaborate with system interface partners to define data exchanges, develop system interface agreements, develop interface design/description documents, map interfaces and data exchanges within the system / technical / data architectures, conduct interface testing, and coordinate/synchronize program activities.
• Perform Enterprise Architecture / Business Process Reengineering activities to assist an organization in analyzing requirements and defining/designing workflows and business processes that optimize mission operations within an information technology solution.
• Align engineering activities with program acquisition strategies to include ensuring the schedule is achievable and adequate technical performance measures /controls are in place.
• Define/review business process models, architectures, designs, technical specifications, and implementation strategies (e.g., engineering, security, testing, training, deployment)
• Develop/provide key content for acquisition documentation to achieve milestone decisions (e.g., Systems Engineering Plan (SEP) / Technical Management Plan (TMP), System Test Plan, Cost Analysis Requirements Description (CARD), DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) Viewpoints (e.g., OVs, SVs, DIVs), Cybersecurity Strategy)).
• Lead systems engineering aspects of contract procurement planning, solicitation, award, and performance monitoring.
• Manage, develop, assess, and process engineering change proposals and requests, including performing technical analyses/feasibility studies and identifying system impacts associated with new requirements, and requirements changes.
• Develop release plans aligned to capability priorities.
• Lead Systems Engineering Working Integrated Product Teams (WIPTs)
• Communicate project information through presentations, technical reports, and/or white papers.
• Other duties as assigned.