Systems Engineer Expert

Overview

Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit arcfield.com for more details.

Responsibilities

Arcfield is seeking a Systems Engineer to provide systems engineering, architectural design, UI/UX design, testing, compliance management, configuration management, system deployment and SLA compliance and performance expertise to support O&M, enhancement, and digital transformation activities for the business system enterprise (BSE), including decommissioning of applications, systems, and/or service components. Must adhere to best practices of DevSecOps.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Define and maintain system standards and architectural principles to develop, implement, and maintain applications, systems, and/or service components.
• Create and maintain system documentation such as wikis, system Concept of Operations (CONOPS) documentation, system/application design documents, and interface control documents (ICDs).
• Create and maintain system/application design diagrams that illustrate dependencies and data flows within the BSE and external systems.
• Analyze business functionality and provide alternative solutions for architecture and process improvements that promote integration and innovation, to include cost benefit analysis.
• Create and maintain a backup and recovery strategy for the BSE.
• Participate in engineering reviews, design reviews, technical exchange meetings, and working group meetings that could affect the operation and configuration of the BSE.
• Plan, design, and analyze the integration of new components into existing applications, systems, and/or service components, to include installing and/or removing existing integrated components.
• Evaluate and understand Sponsor corporate IT initiatives to inform and advise Sponsor management. This shall include project-level technology roadmap planning and implementation of next-generation technology.
• Perform system and performance testing for all deployed solutions within the business system enterprise including testing continuously from development through deployment, to include a full range of system testing activities.
• Provide and document a total system perspective, including relationships, dependencies, and requirements of hardware and software components.
• Identify and ensure that all subsystems work together to function as a single system.
• Research and consider COTS and internally developed solutions to solve integration problems and/or meet system requirements.
• Ensure all portals integrate effectively with existing enterprise systems and data stores to achieve a well-connected, secured, and controlled enterprise of systems.
• Ensure services development follow best practices for development, test, configuration control, release, and change management processes, and enforce SLAs.
• Identify, develop, coordinate, deliver, maintain, and update required interface specifications, including the definition of services, data flows, and dependencies for internal and external service providers.
• Engineer, develop, integrate, deploy, and maintain internal software code, as necessary, to successfully integrate COTS products and associated updates.
• Ensure all deployed solutions are compliant with applicable Sponsor IT Standards and Guidelines Comply with Section 508 Compliance and conduct usability analysis that leads to intuitive interfaces, which improve user experience for applications, systems, and/or service components of the Sponsor’s BSE.
• Monitor and track system performance in accordance with established system performance criteria. If systems are not operating up to their baseline performance, the Contractor shall be proactive in determining and resolving the issue.
• Maintain multiple availability zones and/or data centers used, as appropriate in order to meet availability requirements listed in Appendix I. Meet all Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), based on the system Criticality Level for IT Capability (CLIC) level.
• Develop a change management strategy to facilitate user acceptance of new systems and releases in accordance with Sponsor IT standards.
• Identify technical transition issues associated with the deployment of new system/application releases and develop deployment plans to address those issues.
• Develop, maintain, and execute a Configuration Management (CM) Plan that is consistent with configuration and complexity of the systems/applications hosted within the BSE and in compliance with Sponsor guidance.

Qualifications

Required:

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI with polygraph clearance.
• A bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, computer science, computer information systems, or computer engineering.
• Ten (10) to twelve (12) years of relevant experience
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience supporting technical programs in a systems engineering capacity executing full lifecycle engineering tasks, requirements analysis and systems design, and /or cost/benefit analysis.

Desired:

• Three (3) years of experience actively supporting technical projects within the Intelligence Community that required an understanding of systems engineering principles and practices.
• An active certification relative to system engineering, system architecture, system administration, or computer science.

EEO Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment as protected by law.