Systems Engineer Technical Lead

ALTA IT Services

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Senior Level Career (10+ yrs experience)
Engineering - Systems
Chantilly, VA (On-Site/Office)Alexandria, VA (On-Site/Office)

System Engineer Technical Lead
Top Secret
On-site - Chantilly, Or Alexandria, VA
Email: Cdinnocenti@altaits.com
DOD 8570 Certification (Security+ or equivalent or higher)


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 customers 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 the 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 the 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 Master with 6+ years of prior relevant experience; OR 10 years of experience in lieu of a 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 architectural diagrams
• Microsoft certification(s)
• AWS certification (e.g. Solutions Architect, Developer, DevOps Engineer)
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ALTA IT Services, LLC combines experience and expertise to deliver IT talent that meets and exceeds the expectations of our clients. Since 2004, we have specialized in delivering IT services and staffing nationwide from our Rockville, MD headquarters and two regional offices located in Columbia, MD and Cincinnati, OH. ALTA provides IT staffing and services to support critical IT initiatives, including Artificial Intelligence, Program & Project Management, Enterprise Platforms, Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering & Administration, Software & Web Services, Data Science & Analytics, DevOps, Quality Assurance, Help Desk, Network Management & Support, and Training. Our team of recruiting professionals can recruit any skill necessary to support both commercial and government client needs throughout the United States.