Today
Top Secret/SCI
Unspecified
CI Polygraph
IT - Hardware
Richardson, TX (On-Site/Office)
Principal Systems Engineer, Enterprise Integration needed for a Contract to Hire opportunity with SOC's client to work onsite in Richardson, TX.
*Candidates must have an active TS/SCI with CI Poly clearance to be considered for this role.
Our client has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Systems Engineer, Enterprise Integration role supporting one of our premier programs in the business unit. You will focus on space-to-ground integration with a keen eye on system-level interfaces, contributing significantly to our mission-critical projects.
In this role, your expertise in clarifying large system agile software development, system capability and feature development, system engineering analyses, requirements definition and derivation, interface definition, and acceptance criteria development for validation and verification, with a focus on system-level interfaces, will be essential.
What You Will Do:
• Conduct technical analyses to define system functionality through detailed use cases.
• Address space-to-ground integration and initialization challenges.
• Provide engineering support and technical direction during the execution of the program's test phases, including test process development, architecture design, and test baseline management.
• Participate in and contribute to technical reviews and technical interchange meetings throughout the program lifecycle.
• Continuously assess readiness for launch and mission operations, ensuring alignment with test objectives and ground system integration goals.
• Articulate identified integration challenges across ground system segments, translating technical issues into mission-level impacts.
• Provide mission readiness assessments based on technical integration progress, risks, and interdependencies.
• Communicate emerging risks and concerns to leadership and stakeholders, offering clear pathways for awareness and resolution.
• Recommend defect prioritization across system segments to facilitate effective integration and the achievement of enterprise test objectives.
Qualifications You Must Have:
• Typically requires a Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with ground architecture, focusing on system-level interfaces.
• Experience with systems engineering lifecycles, roles, and functions, including operations concept development, requirements management, functional analysis/synthesis, interface definition and control, and/or verification and validation. Experience in Satellite
• Command/Control, Mission Management, or Planning.
• Development experience on a government contract.
• Experience with Agile and/or DevSecOps development methods.
• A TS/SCI CI Poly security clearance required prior to start date.
Qualifications We Prefer:
• Experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills, particularly in translating complex technical issues into mission readiness impacts.
• Proficiency with Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket, etc.).
• Experience working with requirements in DOORS or other requirements databases.
• Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps in an Agile development environment.
• Scripting knowledge (e.g., Python).
• Strong oral and written communication skills, good collaboration skills, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
Employment Prerequisites
The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: successful completion of a background investigation and d rug urinalysis.
SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer,EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.
Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations, which may have been provided by job boards. Actual pay is determined by an applicant's experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.
Estimated Min Rate: $59.50
Estimated Max Rate: $85.00
*Candidates must have an active TS/SCI with CI Poly clearance to be considered for this role.
Our client has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Systems Engineer, Enterprise Integration role supporting one of our premier programs in the business unit. You will focus on space-to-ground integration with a keen eye on system-level interfaces, contributing significantly to our mission-critical projects.
In this role, your expertise in clarifying large system agile software development, system capability and feature development, system engineering analyses, requirements definition and derivation, interface definition, and acceptance criteria development for validation and verification, with a focus on system-level interfaces, will be essential.
What You Will Do:
• Conduct technical analyses to define system functionality through detailed use cases.
• Address space-to-ground integration and initialization challenges.
• Provide engineering support and technical direction during the execution of the program's test phases, including test process development, architecture design, and test baseline management.
• Participate in and contribute to technical reviews and technical interchange meetings throughout the program lifecycle.
• Continuously assess readiness for launch and mission operations, ensuring alignment with test objectives and ground system integration goals.
• Articulate identified integration challenges across ground system segments, translating technical issues into mission-level impacts.
• Provide mission readiness assessments based on technical integration progress, risks, and interdependencies.
• Communicate emerging risks and concerns to leadership and stakeholders, offering clear pathways for awareness and resolution.
• Recommend defect prioritization across system segments to facilitate effective integration and the achievement of enterprise test objectives.
Qualifications You Must Have:
• Typically requires a Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with ground architecture, focusing on system-level interfaces.
• Experience with systems engineering lifecycles, roles, and functions, including operations concept development, requirements management, functional analysis/synthesis, interface definition and control, and/or verification and validation. Experience in Satellite
• Command/Control, Mission Management, or Planning.
• Development experience on a government contract.
• Experience with Agile and/or DevSecOps development methods.
• A TS/SCI CI Poly security clearance required prior to start date.
Qualifications We Prefer:
• Experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills, particularly in translating complex technical issues into mission readiness impacts.
• Proficiency with Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket, etc.).
• Experience working with requirements in DOORS or other requirements databases.
• Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps in an Agile development environment.
• Scripting knowledge (e.g., Python).
• Strong oral and written communication skills, good collaboration skills, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
Employment Prerequisites
The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: successful completion of a background investigation and d rug urinalysis.
SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer,EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.
Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations, which may have been provided by job boards. Actual pay is determined by an applicant's experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.
Estimated Min Rate: $59.50
Estimated Max Rate: $85.00
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