What are the responsibilities and job description for the System Engineer SME position at DigiFlight?
This role provides technical expertise and collaboration across an Agile team to ensure implementation of overall systems engineering best practices. This role reports to the programs Chief Systems Engineer and supports software systems development, including documenting system requirements, interfaces, and data sources. This role supports technical planning, development, integration, and verification and validation. This role refines customer roadmaps, enterprise epics, and strategic requirements into detailed requirements and actionable user stories to be-delivered by the entire team. This role coordinates with the team leadership to prioritize user stories that realize customer requirements.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Provides analysis related to the design, development, and integration of hardware, software, man-machine interfaces and all system level requirements to provide an integrated IT solution
- Develops integrated system test requirement, strategies, devices and systems
- Directs overall system level testing.
- This role is responsible for technical planning, system hardware-software-network design, development and integration, verification and validation, and fielding.
- Evaluates alternatives including cost and risk, supportability and analyses for total systems.
- Duties include performing systems requirements analysis, functional analysis, timeline analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition, technical management, integration, system testing, and quality assurance.
- Design, build, test and maintain scalable and stable technology solutions to meet mission system monitoring needs
- Perform automation tasks through scripting and testing
- Leverage AWS in the development and hosting of system solutions
- Create documentation to include flowcharts, diagrams, manuals and any other required or requested deliverables.
- Participate and contribute in the entire implementation process for new applications and enhancements to existing applications
- Use the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology to document requirements, configure, test, implement and support efficient solutions
- Derive an understanding of system requirements from stakeholder needs
- Support implementation and adherence to enterprise standards for initiatives such as CI/CD, Agile development/testing, low-high development, and configuration management
Basic Qualifications:
- Possesses and applies extensive knowledge of how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their life cycles across key tasks and high impact assignments.
- Extensive experience working in an agile environment
- Extensive experience planning and leading major technology assignments.
- Extensive experience evaluating performance results and recommending major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.
- Extensive experience as a technical expert across multiple project assignments.
- Extensive experience collaborating with multiple teams on all aspects of the development life cycle.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience translating customer needs into detailed technical requirements.
Candidate must have an active TS/SCI
Candidate must be a US citizen.
Candidate must have a MA/MS degree with a minimum of 15 years of experience. This may be substituted with a BS/BA degree and a minimum of 20 years of total experience.
Our People
DigiFlight attracts the most highly skilled workforce to protect some of our nation’s most sensitive systems. Before joining the company, many DigiFlight professionals served our country in a civilian and/or military capacity. Our diverse team provides innovative solutions as they support critical clients in tackling tough challenges. Most importantly, our team is passionate about their work and making a difference.
Our corporate culture promotes a healthy work/life balance.
Our Benefits
DigiFlight’s competitive benefits package allows employees to manage their personal and professional portfolios through a variety of features and programs. Our benefits include:
- Health, Dental, Vision, and Flexible Spending Account
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 11 paid holidays
- Tuition Education Assistance
- Professional Development
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Life insurance and short- and long-term disability insurance
- Employee Referral Program
- Marketing Incentive Plans
DigiFlight, Inc. (DFI) is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. DFI offers a highly competitive, family-oriented benefits package.
