Systems Engineer - Full Performance

Company: Beyond SOF
Location: Herndon
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

Systems Engineer - Full PerformanceSummary:Enterprise System Engineer serves to maintain a strong awareness of technical trends in information technology, develop and maintain a strong awareness of ongoing IT projects, and business unit requirements. The role involves applying the project management model (e.g. Spiral, Waterfall, Agile) selected for a given development effort and providing analysis, design, development, deployment, and lifecycle support for innovative hardware systems and applications. Responsibilities include developing end-to-end cost analysis for projects, ensuring systems comply with the enterprise technical architecture, helping project and program teams prepare for CIO Project Management Program control gates, and keeping senior management apprised of project or program status. Assignments may include leading teams consisting of contractor personnel.Duties, Tasks, and Responsibilities

• Analyze and study complex system requirements.
• Analyze functional business applications and design specifications for functional activities.
• Apply business process improvement practices to re-engineer methodologies and principles and business process modernization projects.
• Apply the concept of operations set of disciplines for the planning, analysis, design, and construction of information systems across a major sector of the organization.
• Apply, as appropriate, activity and data modeling, transaction flow analysis, internal control and risk analysis, and modern business methods and performance measurement techniques.
• Assist in establishing standards for information systems procedures.
• Confer with clients regarding the nature of the information processing or computation needs a computer program is to address.
• Consult with management to ensure agreement on system principles.
• Coordinate and link the computer systems within an organization to increase compatibility and facilitate information sharing.
• Design software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain analyses and manage their implementation.
• Develop analytical and computational techniques and methodologies for problem solutions.
• Develop and apply organization-wide information models for use in designing and building integrated, shared software and database management systems.
• Develop block diagrams and logic flow charts. Translate detailed design into computer software. Enhance software to reduce operating time or improve efficiency.
• Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
• Estimate software development costs and schedules. Review existing programs and assist in making refinements, reducing operating time, and improving current techniques. Supervise software configuration management.
• Expand or modify systems to serve new purposes or improve workflow.
• Manage software development and support using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, other accepted design techniques, and Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools.
• Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, cost estimation, trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
• Perform strategic systems planning, business information planning, and business analysis. Prepare required documentation, including both program-level and user-level documentation.
• Provide staff and users with assistance solving computer-related problems, such as malfunctions and program issues.
• Provide technical direction to programmers to ensure program deadlines are met.
• Provide technical guidance in software engineering techniques and automated support tools.
• Test, maintain, and monitor computer programs and systems, including coordinating the installation of computer programs and systems.
• Test, debug, and refine the computer software to produce the required product.
• Use object-oriented programming languages, as well as client/server applications development processes and multimedia and Internet technology.Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Ability to convey technical information to non-technical individuals.
  • Ability to develop a project plan and workflow based on a project management model.
  • Ability to effectively understand and communicate orally, in writing, and interpersonally to various customers/audiences.
  • Ability to identify technology gaps in current capabilities and processes.
  • Ability to troubleshoot and problem-solve both technical and non-technical issues.
  • Ability to work both independently and in a team environment.
  • Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods.
  • Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
  • Considerable knowledge of Project Management concepts and principles.
  • Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
  • Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services.
  • Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in the production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
  • Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology.
  • Knowledge of the Intelligence Community.
  • Knowledge of project management processes, procedures, and tools.
  • Project planning and management skills, including scope of work, time estimation, and resource assignment.
  • Strong analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts/theories for various projects.
  • Strong interpersonal skills to resolve problems in a professional manner, lead working groups, negotiate and create consensus.
  • Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
  • Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
  • Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.Minimum Education
    • General equivalency guidelines for education, certifications, and experience are provided below; however, these guidelines do not immediately qualify someone at a particular level. Skill levels for an individual are based upon a combination of education, training, and experience.
    • General professional years of experience may be substituted for specialized years of experience at a ratio of three (3) years of general experience within an occupation for one (1) year of specialized experience.
    • Relevant certifications will be considered equivalent to three (3) months of specialized experience.
    • An Associate's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a scientific or technical discipline related to the specific skill will be considered equivalent to eighteen (18) months specialized experience.
    • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a scientific or technical discipline related to the specific skill will be considered equivalent to three (3) years specialized experience.
    • A Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a scientific or technical discipline related to the specific skill will be considered equivalent to two (2) years specialized experience.
    • A Doctorate in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a scientific or technical discipline related to the specific skill will be considered equivalent to two (2) years specialized experience.Minimum ExperienceFull Performance:
      • Someone that is fully capable of delivering capabilities related to a particular skill, language, system, or technology.
      • Requires a minimum of three (3) years of experience specific to the skill.
      • Ability, training, and actual work experience with the specific computer language, systems, and/or technology is significantly more important than the number of years of experience.
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