Senior Systems Engineer

(July 2019 - Present)

Job Description: Certified SAFe 4 Agilist

Responsible for technical planning, system hardware-software-network and integration, verification and validation, and fielding for Mission Planning software development.
Evaluates alternatives, including supportability, reliability, and analyses for total systems.
Perform systems requirement functional analysis, timeline analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation and interface management, integration, system pretesting, and quality assurance.
Refine Strategy roadmaps for software development of next generation solutions to ensure technical work aligns with Enterprise/Business goals.
Establish Acceptance Criteria for Software development efforts on the feature level.
Collaborate with Epic, Portfolio, Solution Managers and Agile Release Trains (ART) to break down strategic themes and goals from Epics into Capabilities and Features that are incremental and scalable.
Ensure development team's CICD dependencies and blockers are addressed and minimized.
Encourage the adoption of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodologies
Create and execute a plan to implement the deprecation of outdated waterfall solutions.
Maintain, enhance, and modernize Mission Planning Software
Establish enablers (supporting activities that are necessary to expand the Architectural runway for future business functionality).

Impact:

Works independently and in groups to achieve day-to-day objectives with significant impact on project deliverables.
Responsible for projects or processes within a technical CICD environment.
Transition from waterfall methodologies to an Agile model - to incorporate DevOps that are user-centered with a test-driven approach.

Complexity:

Develops technical solutions that require collaboration with internal experts, deep understanding of impact on end-product/solution.
Develops solutions to technical problems and issues that are unclear and require deep knowledge and understanding of mission objectives.
Create Technical Requirements Backlogs, Statements of Work, Contract Data Requirements Lists and other documentation in support of new Mission Planning Delivery Orders.
Coordinate with enterprise stakeholders to prioritize product backlogs for Program Increments (PI) and provide meaningful work within each sprint and release.
Generate Mission Threads, Use Cases and requirements packages as applicable and manage those requirements and their traceability.
Identify and manage internal and external dependencies/blockers.
Analyze software development technical metrics, report results and recommend corrective actions.
Ensure that approved Mission Planning processes are utilized.
Understanding and leveraging an Enterprise Product approach to identify requirements that represent a gap in capabilities and opportunities for reuse.
Report the technical status of product development to the key stakeholders.
Evaluate technical proposals and other technical data items, to include architecture, requirements documents, designs, test plans/reports, and process descriptions.

Communication:

Communicates with internal and external client project team members.
Serve as an Agile Systems Engineer with a collection of products representing the client stakeholders to the development team to include: product vision, design, development, testing and sustainment.
Represent the Government customer.
Responsible for identifying Customer needs, prioritizing Features, guiding the work through the Program Kanban and developing the program Vision and Roadmap consistent with the Solution Intent and Context.
Collaborate to ensure appropriate value is being provided via working software and products (including documentation).
Attend Product Scrum meetings and participate in Program Increment (PI) planning events. Also, support the Engineering role as an individual or part of a small team that defines a shared technical and architectural vision for the System/Solution under development.
Participate in determining the system, subsystems, and interfaces, validate technology assumptions and evaluate alternatives while working closely with the Agile Release Train (ARTs) and Solution Train.

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Senior Systems Engineer

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Job Description: Certified SAFe 4 Agilist

Responsible for technical planning, system hardware-software-network and integration, verification and validation, and fielding for Mission Planning software development.

Evaluates alternatives, including supportability, reliability, and analyses for total systems.

Perform systems requirement functional analysis, timeline analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation and interface management, integration, system pretesting, and quality assurance.

Refine Strategy roadmaps for software development of next generation solutions to ensure technical work aligns with Enterprise/Business goals.

Establish Acceptance Criteria for Software development efforts on the feature level.

Collaborate with Epic, Portfolio, Solution Managers and Agile Release Trains (ART) to break down strategic themes and goals from Epics into Capabilities and Features that are incremental and scalable.

Ensure development team's CICD dependencies and blockers are addressed and minimized.

Encourage the adoption of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodologies

Create and execute a plan to implement the deprecation of outdated waterfall solutions.

Maintain, enhance, and modernize Mission Planning Software

Establish enablers (supporting activities that are necessary to expand the Architectural runway for future business functionality).

​

Impact:

Works independently and in groups to achieve day-to-day objectives with significant impact on project deliverables.

Responsible for projects or processes within a technical CICD environment.

Transition from waterfall methodologies to an Agile model - to incorporate DevOps that are user-centered with a test-driven approach.

​

Complexity:

Develops technical solutions that require collaboration with internal experts, deep understanding of impact on end-product/solution.

Develops solutions to technical problems and issues that are unclear and require deep knowledge and understanding of mission objectives.

Create Technical Requirements Backlogs, Statements of Work, Contract Data Requirements Lists and other documentation in support of new Mission Planning Delivery Orders.

Coordinate with enterprise stakeholders to prioritize product backlogs for Program Increments (PI) and provide meaningful work within each sprint and release.

Generate Mission Threads, Use Cases and requirements packages as applicable and manage those requirements and their traceability.

Identify and manage internal and external dependencies/blockers.

Analyze software development technical metrics, report results and recommend corrective actions.

Ensure that approved Mission Planning processes are utilized.

Understanding and leveraging an Enterprise Product approach to identify requirements that represent a gap in capabilities and opportunities for reuse.

Report the technical status of product development to the key stakeholders.

Evaluate technical proposals and other technical data items, to include architecture, requirements documents, designs, test plans/reports, and process descriptions.

​

Communication:

Communicates with internal and external client project team members.

Serve as an Agile Systems Engineer with a collection of products representing the client stakeholders to the development team to include: product vision, design, development, testing and sustainment.

Represent the Government customer.

Responsible for identifying Customer needs, prioritizing Features, guiding the work through the Program Kanban and developing the program Vision and Roadmap consistent with the Solution Intent and Context.

Collaborate to ensure appropriate value is being provided via working software and products (including documentation).

Attend Product Scrum meetings and participate in Program Increment (PI) planning events. Also, support the Engineering role as an individual or part of a small team that defines a shared technical and architectural vision for the System/Solution under development.

Participate in determining the system, subsystems, and interfaces, validate technology assumptions and evaluate alternatives while working closely with the Agile Release Train (ARTs) and Solution Train.