System Engineer Technical Lead from ALTA IT Services

System Engineer Technical Lead
Top Secret
On-site - Chantilly, Or Alexandria, VA 
Email: Cdinnocenti@altaits.com

ALTA IT is looking for a System Engineer Technical Lead to join our team responsible for the integration, operations, and sustainment of various operational and in-development systems.

This client has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the modernization of a geospatial product supporting mission critical operations. The candidate will provide leadership to invigorate technical innovation and must be willing to drive smart change to support a collaborative and innovative culture to provide our customer with optimal solutions that meet their strategic goals. A successful candidate will have experience with the Microsoft technology stack, AWS services, and related software and networking design and implementation.

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities will involve taking a leadership role in system assessment, recommendations, and solution implementation.

• Become a subject matter expert (SME) for the baseline, with the ability to communicate the system’s features, architecture, roadmap, and limitations to a variety of audiences
• Decompose requirements, use cases, and need statements into epics and features with clearly defined acceptance criteria that will be assigned to agile development teams
• Take part in migration of a legacy systems to model cloud-based architectures, leveraging modern cloud native technologies.
• Ensure the security, reliability, and maintainability of internally facing applications and services
• Ability to clearly describe and analyze a problem and to articulate a solution
• Provide hands-on technical support to the team (systems engineering, software development, testing)
• Execute analysis of alternatives (AoA) and prototypes to determine the design of new system features and capabilities
• Participate and provide subject matter expertise in technical exchange meetings and other customer or stakeholder forums
• Manage the system requirements and maintain technical requirement documents
• Create and communicate design artifacts to the team to ensure applications and services are built to support the business and architecture objectives
• Provide subject matter expertise and support agile development teams in the continuous integration of epics and features

Required Qualifications:

• Must possess an active Top Secret Security Clearance with ability to obtain SCI post hire
• Requires a BS in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related discipline and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience; OR 10 years of experience in lieu of degree
• DOD 8570 Certification (Security+ or equivalent or higher)
• Experience with Microsoft .NET ecosystem tools such as VB .NET, C#, C++, Visual Studio, WPF
• Firm understanding of object-oriented design, data structures and design patterns
• Experience designing and developing UI/UX that simplify complex workflows while keeping designs flexible
• Experience working with large code bases
• Experience writing testable software
• GIS experience and knowledge of roaster and imagery
• Experience with System (hardware, software and networking) Design and Architecture
• Experience developing a technical roadmap
• Ability to lead and prioritize systems engineering and architecture requirements
• Database experience such as PostgreSQL
• Web Application and application workflow experience
• Experience preparing presentations and leading technical exchange meetings
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience briefing stakeholders at all levels
• Knowledge of Systems, Architectural, SW Development and SW Sustainment methodologies and practices
• Proficient in software development projects or software integration projects in a service-oriented environment (Cloud, SOA, Web-Services) or virtualization environment.
• Experience with AWS architectures and technologies
• Familiar with Amazon Web Services (S3 Buckets, EC2, Reserved Instances, etc.)
• Familiar with Git/GitLab or other source code control tools
• Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, diagrams, etc.)
• Familiar with team collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading systems engineering support for geospatial products
• Experience writing, maintaining, and presenting architecture diagrams
• Microsoft certification(s)
• AWS certification (e.g. Solutions Architect, Developer, DevOps Engineer)

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