Sr. Systems Engineer (Gaithersburg, MD / TS--SCI)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead systems engineering activities across the full system lifecycle, including requirements analysis, architecture development, integration, testing, deployment, and sustainment.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Agile development teams to refine features and translate mission needs into technical solutions.
• Develop and maintain system architectures, interface definitions, operational concepts (CONOPS), and technical documentation.
• Perform systems decomposition, functional analysis, allocation, and traceability using industry-standard systems engineering practices.
• Support backlog refinement, sprint planning, and technical roadmap development.
• Evaluate system performance, identify technical risks, and develop mitigation strategies.
• Coordinate integration across multiple development teams and external mission partners.
• Support verification and validation activities, ensuring requirements are fully tested and documented.
• Participate in design reviews, architecture reviews, technical interchange meetings, and customer briefings.
• Support DevSecOps initiatives and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes.
• Ensure compliance with customer and Intelligence Community engineering standards and security requirements.

Required Qualifications:

• US citizenship is required per contract.
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineer, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related STEM discipline and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Master’s with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience.
• 8+ years of professional systems engineering experience.
• Experience support customer, DoD, or Intelligence Community programs.
• CompTIA Security+ Certification
• INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional Certification (ASEP, CSEP, or ESEP)
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and the systems development lifecycle.
• Experience working with Agile frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban).
• Experience with requirements management tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar.
• Knowledge of cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GovCloud).
• Experience with system integration, interface management, and enterprise architecture.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps pipelines and CI/CD tools.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting the customers’ mission systems or GEOINT programs.
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and SysML.
• Familiarity with Cameo Systems Modeler or similar modeling tools.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized applications.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture.
• Experience with REST APIs and distributed systems.
• INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional Certification (ASEP, CSEP, or ESEP).
• SAFe Agilist (SA), Scrum Master, or Agile certification.
• Experience supporting cloud-native or hybrid cloud environments.