Systems Engineer Helicopter Mission Planning

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Leidos has an immediate opportunity for a Systems Engineer (SE). You will be part of a highly focused and diverse team of systems engineers government program managers software development teams and security test this opportunity you will also serve as subject matter expert (SME) providing leadership to peer engineers testers and end users with proposed solutions to complex engineering and integration problems. The enterprise utilizes leading edge methodologies for Agile and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Leidos provides a real work-life balance with options for compressed work schedules and flexible hours.

Primary Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be energetic organized eager to learn and comfortable working & speaking in a team environment placing a high value on collaboration and team responsibilities include:

• Serve as a SE and SME for Mission Planning software development.

• Serve as an Agile Product Manager/Systems Engineer/Release Train Manager with a collection of products representing the client stakeholders to the development team to include product vision design development testing and sustainment.

• Create Technical Requirements Backlogs Statements of Work Contract Data Requirements Lists and other documentation in support of new Mission Planning Delivery Orders.

• Coordinate with enterprise stakeholders to prioritize product backlogs for sprints and releases.

• Generate Mission Threads use cases and requirements packages as applicable and managing those requirements and their traceability. Identify and manage internal and external dependencies.

• Analyze software development metrics report results and recommend corrective actions.

• Utilize common Mission Planning processes while facilitating a continuous learning culture to help drive improvement of those processes. Understanding and leveraging an Enterprise Product approach to identify requirements that represent a gap in capabilities and opportunities for reuse. Report the technical status of product development to the key stakeholders.

• Evaluate technical proposals and other technical data items to include architecture requirements documents designs test plans/reports and process descriptions.

• Represent the Government customer in Product Management (with content authority for the Program Backlog) responsible for identifying Customer needs prioritizing Features guiding the work through the Program level processes and developing the program Vision and Roadmap consistent with the Solution Intent and Context. Collaborating to ensure appropriate value is being provided via working software and products (including documentation). Attend Product Owner Scrum meetings and participate in Program Increment (PI) planning events. Also support the Engineering role as an individual or part of a small team that defines a shared technical and architectural vision for the System/Solution under development. Participate in determining the system subsystems and interfaces validate technology assumptions and evaluate alternatives while working closely with other Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Solution Trains.

Basic Qualifications

• Candidates must possess a minimum of a Secret clearance and be eligible to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.

• BS degree or equivalent and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain.

• Expertise in helicopter Mission Planning at the unit level wing level or AOC level.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with customer representatives domain experts and other systems engineers in the development of complex software systems.

• Proficiency using Microsoft Office products (Word Excel PowerPoint Project).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Scrum at Scale or SAFe Agile processes is highly desired.

• Experience with Jira Jira Align and Confluence is highly desired.

• Experience with rotary wing and/or search and rescue operations preferred.

• Knowledge of software testing concepts.

• Knowledge of software and systems engineering processes for the software development life cycle.

• General familiarity of the DoD system development and acquisition processes.

• General familiarity with DoD technical order system and processes.

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