Systems Engineer Senior - Arcfield

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.

Arcfield is seeking a Systems Engineer to provide systems engineering and architectural design expertise to support O&M, enhancement, and digital transformation activities for the BSE, including decommissioning of applications, systems, and/or service components. Duties include but are not limited to:

• Provide systems engineering and architectural design expertise to support O&M, enhancement, and digital transformation activities for the BSE, including decommissioning of applications, systems, and/or service components.
• 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.
• 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.
• Support resolution efforts and/or coordination for integrated COTS software.
• 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.

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph. 
• A bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or Computer Engineering and have 8 - 10 years 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 cost/benefit analysis.
• Must have current TS/SCI with Poly and have the ability to maintain.

Desired Qualifications

• 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

Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.