Software Systems Engineer

at  Solidus Technical Solutions

Solidus is looking for a Principal Software Systems Engineer to join our systems engineering team. Our Engineers support technical direction and design to software agile development teams, and other Engineering personnel. They perform technical analyses and define how the system works creating use cases, system capability and feature designs, defining system interfaces and acceptance criteria. In this role, the candidate will provide engineering support for the implementation of a portion of the program’s systems engineering.
The position is full time, on-site in Richardson TX.

• US Citizenship and an Active TS/SCI
• BS in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics and 8 years of prior relevant experience. Or advanced degree and 5 years of relevant experience. In absence of a degree, 12 years of relevant experience is required.
• Demonstrated system engineering and technical experience with software systems development
• Agile software development activities, including system level design specification and integration test and verification activities (full SE life cycle)
• Domain experience in IC GEOINT, including familiarity with common GEOINT still imagery data formats
• Development of ICDs, APIs, and system specifications as a primary author
• Atlassian tool suite, including Jira and Confluence
• Cloud or cloud-hybrid deployment environments
• Ability to interact effectively with customer and consumer communities for technical exchange meetings and design briefings
• Agile development team environment with multi-discipline engineers and stake holders, developing system solutions to meet customer requirements, requirements decomposition, and experience with CONOPS development
• Experience working on teams addressing solution definition, decomposition, design and acceptance criteria
• Development of containerized software system architectures
• Ability to function independently in the development and revisions of existing ICDs, APIs, and system specifications in response to contract mods
• Program experience with requirements development and/or requirements maintenance

Preferred:

• Experience with streaming data formats including Full Motion Video and Moving Target Indicator data
• Strong communications skills to support technical exchange meetings and design briefings
• Full software development lifecycle using Agile methodology that ensures high quality software is built and released to end-users quickly and within cost and schedule parameters
• MBSE processes and tools to capture systems design and elaboration in Cameo or similar tools
• Domain experience with active data types supported by NSGPDDs
• Thorough understanding of the 12 Factor App concepts for service development
• Strong experience with Confluence as a communications medium