Senior Systems Engineer - ENG04

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Volt is immediately hiring Senior Systems Engineer in State College, PA or Aurora CO, or Richardson TX.

As Senior Systems Engineer you will:
Senior Systems Engineer to join our systems engineering team. Our Engineers support technical direction and design to software agile development teams, and other Engineering personnel. They perform technical analyses and define how the system works creating use cases, system capability and feature designs, defining system interfaces and acceptance criteria. In this role, the candidate will provide engineering support for the implementation of a portion of the program's systems engineering. To succeed in this role, you must have systems engineering development lifecycle experience using an Agile methodology. The position is full time, on-site in State College, PA, Aurora CO, or Richardson TX.

What You Will Do
• Collaborate with the other systems engineering teams to design and develop software
• Assist in providing technical information and clarification during the entire software development lifecycle, from conceptualization and design to development, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Perform solution decomposition from customer epics, to capabilities, to features, to stories according to SAFe Agile practices
• Apply systems engineering expertise to feature designs to reduce overall risk to the software development effort
• Engage with customer user representatives or subject matter experts to gather user needs and incorporate into the feature designs for the agile development teams
• Engage with SMEs from other disciplines to fully understand the solution and document the designs.

This is a 12 Month full time Contract or Contract to hire opportunity.

This position requires Active Top Secret / SCI Clearance.

The Ideal candidate will have:
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 3 years' experience
• Demonstrated system engineering and technical experience with software systems development
• Experience in agile software development activities, including system level design specification and integration test and verification activities (full SE life cycle)
• Experience interacting across multiple engineering disciplines, including both programmatic and technical.
• Experience working in an Agile development team environment with multi-discipline engineers and stake holders, developing system solutions to meet customer requirements, requirements decomposition, and experience with CONOPS development
• Experience working on teams addressing solution definition, decomposition, design and acceptance criteria
• Experience performing design activities with cross-disciplined engineering teams
• Experience working in the software development Lifecyle.

Qualifications We Prefer:
• SIGINT, GEOINT, or Multi-INT Intelligence Community (IC) background with end user mission experience
• Experience in a technical role of a large multi-disciplined engineering team
• Experience with cloud-based S/W architectures and systems is a plus
• Experience developing MBSE and DoDAF artifacts
• Background and experience successfully working with all levels of engineering development in large government software development programs as well as an individual contributor as part of an agile development team
• Engineering experience working in the full software development lifecycle using Agile methodology that ensures high quality software is built and released to end-users quickly and within cost and schedule parameters
• Experience using Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.), and evaluation of requirements decomposition, system architecture and system design
• Experience using MBSE processes and tools to capture systems design and elaboration in Cameo or similar tool
• Experience in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and/or micro-service-based systems.

Pay Range: $85.00 - $95.00 per hour.

*Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

Qualified candidates should APPLY NOW for immediate consideration! Please hit APPLY to provide the required information, and we will be back in touch as soon as possible.

Benefits: Volt offers benefits (based on eligibility) that include the following: health, dental, vision, term life, short term disability, AD&D, 401(k), Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Volt is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits any kind of unlawful discrimination and harassment. Volt is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national origin, citizenship, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the statutes, rules, and regulations in the locations where it operates. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please email or call (866) -898-0005. Please indicate the specifics of the assistance needed.

Volt does not discriminate against applicants based on citizenship status, immigration status, or national origin, in accordance with 8 U.S.C. § 1324b. The company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner that complies with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.
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