System Engineer, Senior
The Challenge:
Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to impact national defense? You understand your customers environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer-focused engineering solution.
As a leader in systems engineering, were looking for you to solve complex challenges and shape our customer's mission by leading engineering efforts. Your customer will trust you to not only design and develop these systems, but also evolve them with advanced technology solutions. Share your expertise through leadership and mentoring, while broadening your skillset into areas like advanced technologies. Grow your skills by merging engineering principals and innovative solutions to create new concepts for our customers. Join our team and create the future of military weapons control.
Empower change with us.
You Have:
* 8+ years of experience in working with developing requirements, Agile user stories, and test cases or architecture to satisfy mission objectives and integrate into a system of systems
* Experience in working with users to understand operational conditions to synthesize system and software requirements and user interfaces
* Experience in working with Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E) development tools, including Jira, Confluence, Nexus or Stash-Git and Subversion
* Experience with using DOORS to support mission-critical requirements definition and analysis
* Experience with authoring documents to support customer missions
* Ability to develop manual and automated test product representing end item capabilities
* Ability to develop and implement information systems across the entire project life cycle, including development and operation test and evaluation
* Active Secret clearance
* BA or BS degree
Nice If You Have:
* Experience with automated unit test and test-driven development concepts, tools, and languages
* Experience with working as a technical leader in a multi-contractor, on-site, and virtual environment
* Experience with working on computer systems for weapons control
* Experience with creating test environments of developed software, using actual fielded hardware, in a lab environment
* Knowledge of safety engineering and the application of safety standards such as MIL-STD-882 and the Joint Software System Safety Handbook
* Ability to apply the engineering design process to discover innovative methods to solve technical problems and meet client requirements
* Ability to convey technical designs, ideas, and results to non-technical audiences and provide briefings to high-level government personnel
* MA or MS degree
Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.
Build Your Career:
When you join Booz Allen, youll have the opportunity to connect with other professionals doing similar work across multiple markets. Youll share best practices and work through challenges as you gain experience and mentoring to develop your career. In addition, you will have access to a wealth of training resources through our Engineering & Science University, an online learning portal where you can access more than 5000 tech courses, certifications and books. Build your technical skills through hands-on training on the latest tools and tech from our in-house experts. Pursuing certifications that directly impact your role? You may be able to take advantage of our tuition assistance, on-site courses, vendor relationships, and a network of experts who can give you helpful tips. Well help you develop the career you want as you chart your own course for success.
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McLean, VA
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