Job Duties 

• Develop comprehensive SOA solutions 

• Develop operational view, technical standards view, and system and services view for architectures using applicable DoDAF standards 

• Conduct and/or approve system engineering documentation to ensure that processes and specifications meet system needs and are accurate, comprehensive, and complete 

• Use validated models, simulations and prototyping to mitigate risk and reduce cost of system development

• Ensure effective, periodic review and control of the evolving configuration of a system, both hardware and software components and associated documentation during the life of the system

• Serve as a member of the CCB

• Develop system design alternatives that consider life cycle cost, reuse, complexity, risk, system expansion, and growth

• Develop alternative courses of action, workarounds, and fall-back positions with a recommended course of action for each risk, and monitor and re-evaluate risks at appropriate milestones. Monitors risks using earned value management (EVM) data

• Maintain knowledge of current and evolving agency, national, and international standards applicable to the system development of interest. Apply and enforce use of suitable standards to ensure consistency and interoperability of developer hardware and software

• As a participant within an Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) effort, recommend a preferred solution based on selection criteria adjusted for reasonableness and validity of assumptions, technology limitations, environmental impact, and life-cycle costs

• Provide technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of all components of complex hardware/software systems to include requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management as well as end-to-end flow analysis

• Improve standard integration strategies based upon rationale for previous decisions that resulted in improved integration performance

• Fully define interfaces in terms of origination, destination, stimulus, and data characteristics for software; and electrical and mechanical characteristics for hardware

Required Skills: 

• US Citizens Only 

• TS/SCI Clearance and Polygraph required 

• Minimum of twenty (20) years of experience as a System Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.

• Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.

• Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree. 

• Prior data flow/or NiFi flow engineering experience.

Desired Skills: 

• Experience with data government (DMRs, DLMS, DSW, DART) processes, and security and compliance as it relates to data handling and access control and the catalog labelling process is highly desired. 

• Working with large volumes of multimedia, multilingual content
  processing systems requiring ingest of multiple formats, audio playback to end
  users, storage, and retrieval of objects.

• Distributed Peer to Peer content storage and retrieval systems with
  more than 500 nodes.

• Metadata indexing, metadata summarization, content and
  metadata data mining, visualization and analytics.

• Experience in developing system performance, availability, scalability,
  manageability, and security requirements for mid-to-large scale programs.

• Experience in developing technical documentation for issues and/or training.

• Experience in leading agile and/or spiral development models.

• Experience developing solutions integrating and extending COTS products.

• Experience integrating COTS and GOTS products from multiple vendors.

• Knowledge and experience with developing distributed storage routing and
  querying algorithms.

• Experience implementing storage area networks, data warehouses and data
  marts.

• Experience optimizing storage, retrieval, back-up, and retention strategies
  across globally distributed, high throughput, text and multimedia storage and retrieval
  systems.

• Experience developing and deploying storage within clustered or cloud
  environments.

• Experience interacting with users and in cross-Integrated Product Team (IPT)
  environments.

• Experience planning and integrating secure compliant solutions based on
  legal, policy, and compliance directives.

• Knowledge and experience with internals of HDFS, HADOOP, and/or
  HBase/Accumulo BIG TABLE