Lead Systems Engineer

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting agency, seeks a System Engineer 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 customer 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 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 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 Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience; OR 10 years of experience in lieu of 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 architecture diagrams
• Microsoft certification(s)
• AWS certification (e.g. Solutions Architect, Developer, DevOps Engineer)

Security Clearance Required: Top Secret (Ideally TS/SCI CI Poly)

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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