Overview

Arcfield is a leading provider of full lifecycle, mission-focused systems engineering and integration capabilities to the U.S. government and its allies. The company has more than 60 years of proven experience providing advanced engineering and analysis, IT and C5ISR capabilities to support our nation’s most critical national security missions. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA and with 16 offices around the world, Arcfield employs approximately 1,200 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals who put our customers’ missions first, helping them solve their most complex challenges through innovations in modeling, simulation and analysis, digital transformation and C5ISR. Visit arcfield.com for more details.

Responsibilities

The future of world-class mission support and innovative ground system architecture and software is being developed today at Arcfield. The Enterprise Data Applications and Platforms (EDAP) group delivers enterprise solutions for data-centric and service-centric capabilities to empower our customer's most important development, test, and operations activities. You’ll lead the creation of a Systems Engineering Master Plan, including test and demonstration activities, which will become the overarching guidance for all software and framework development efforts. You’ll define development objectives, review change requests and architecture changes, and provide innovative recommendations on prioritization and the optimal courses of actions. You will work seamlessly with other government and contractor team members in a challenging work environment.

• Develop Agile solution and program epics with acceptance criteria and shape them into a 5-year roadmap
• Optimize pre-increment planning and iterative integration demos and tests via Agile software development best practices.
• Prioritize development, architecture modernization, and change requests to achieve a continuous integration/continuous deployment pipeline that automate provisioning, scaling, and self-healing across cloud and on-premise solutions.
• Assess developer performance by analyzing contract deliverables, program management reviews, architecture designs, and demonstration/tests. 
• Analyze developer recommendations for software enhancements across cloud, containers, and open-source solutions.

Define capabilities needed to establish a data centric architecture connected by loosely coupled APIs, streaming and pub/sub services, and a common data ontology.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Requires 12 to 15 years with BS/BA or 10 to 13 years with MS/MA or 10 years with Ph.D
• Must Possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI Clearance with Poly
• Requires 5 years’ experience in Systems Engineering Technical Assistance (SETA), acquisition, and the Intelligence Community
• Demonstrated ability to work well with other government and contractors in a challenging work environment

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Confluence and JIRA Atlassian commercial tools
• Experience or training with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) agile methodologies
• Experience with Systems Engineering processes across all phases of Agile software development life-cycle

EEO Statement

EEO

Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.