Systems Engineer

Responsibilities

The Systems Engineer (SE) will be a member of the Sponsor's Payroll Migration Team, providing IT support to the government Program Manager overseeing a high-priority, large-scale effort to migrate the Sponsor's payroll to a shared service provider.

The SE's primary responsibilities consist of, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead technical discussions with interface partners in assessing the current and future states of payroll applications and systems.
• Analyze the current state of the Sponsor's payroll applications, systems, and interfaces.
• Assist in identifying and documenting payroll business processes and perform data mapping from current-state payroll systems to future-state payroll systems.
• Assist in documenting all internal and external payroll interfaces associated with the payroll applications and systems.
• Design the future state of all the Sponsor's payroll applications. systems, and interfaces.
• Perform data mapping and analysis of current data fields against a shared service provider's requirements needed to support payroll processing.
• Assist with designing and building a cloud-based bi-directional interface with the payroll shared service provider.
• Address issues related to systems integration, compatibility, and multi-platform environments.
• Work with business and technical partners to deliver robust systems that meet stakeholder needs.

Qualifications

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
• BS 10-12, MS 8-10, PhD 5-7 or relevant experience (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a scientific or technical discipline
• Analytical and conceptual skills; ability to develop original concepts or theories for various projects
• Experience designing and adapting technology solutions to meet user needs.
• Ability to logically and systematically convert customer or product requirements into comprehensive system solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints
• Extensive experience in systems and network design and development
• Demonstrated experience with developing or migrating large-scale enterprise projects to an AWS private cloud-hosting environment
• Demonstrated ability to multitask and work independently; self-starter
• Experience in successful lifecycle software development projects
• Ability to translate stakeholder needs and requirements into software solutions that involve multiple interfaces and supporting data repositories
• Strong customer service and teamwork skills, and the ability to collaborate within a cross-functional team
• Demonstrated ability to adjust to changing priorities
• Ability to analyze and study complex system requirements, including:
• Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, cost estimation, trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications
• Applying concept of operations set of disciplines for the planning, analysis, design and construction of information systems across a major sector of the organization
• Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology
• Experience with activity and data modeling, transaction flow analysis, internal control and risk analysis, and modern business methods and performance measurement techniques

Desired Qualifications:

• Ability to convey technical information to non-technical individuals
• Ability to work in a dynamic and challenging environment
• Strong oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Complex problem-solving skills and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
• Knowledge or experience working with Lawson
• Strong time management (i.e., prioritize, organize, and deliver results) and problem solving (i.e., analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution) skills
• Ability to work and communicate, including active listening, within a team environment
• Demonstrated working knowledge of business processes and data analysis

EEO Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment as protected by law.