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Principal Systems Engineer-TS/SCI

Avenue Technologies and Commodities Inc
Aurora, CO Full Time
POSTED ON 6/4/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/3/2026
Onsite in Denver Metro Area
Muct have an active TS/SCI DoD clearance

The Principal Systems Engineer will execute multiple aspects of the systems engineering discipline, to include requirements decomposition into software functions, system performance analysis and trade studies, oversight of software development and system integration and test activities to ensure system requirements closure. The system engineer will interact with the agile development teams, program leadership and customer regarding technical considerations, risks, and issue closure associated with our portfolio capabilities. 

Responsibilities to Anticipate:
• In this role you will work with the customer and engineering leadership to perform analysis necessary to define and document requirements for software releases; work with the Requirements Manager to ensure up to date requirements traceability matrices are in place; assist in the creation/management of a project schedule based on development and release activities.
• The candidate must also possess the ability to multi-task, adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, effectively network, and communicate to all levels of the organization and drive processes to successful completion in support of schedules
• The principal systems engineer will be responsible for contributing to the technical planning and capability / feature designs, technical detailing and metrics collection, analysis and reporting for the agile development teams.
• The principal system engineer may also work on a cloud solution, where parts of the system will be on the Cloud environment and other portions remain on a hardware environment.
• The principal system engineer is required to have strong working knowledge of networking, infrastructure, cyber security, software design and architectures.

Basic Qualifications (Required):
• Active TS/SCI
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years’ experience.
• System engineering full life cycle experience and technical leadership experience in development of large software systems.
• Experience supporting agile development activities, including requirements specification and integration test and verification activities (full life-cycle)
• Experience with requirements derivation, capability development-analyze complex requirements and determine viable solutions
• Experience decomposing customer epics into capabilities that can then be decomposed by the development teams into actionable features and stories for development
• Systems design and specification experience, CONOPS development
• Experience defining acceptance criteria for capabilities that can be detail designed and developed by external teams
• Experience or demonstrated capability to lead an engineering team
• Experience performing responsibilities of a SCRUM Master (SCRUM Master Certification desired)

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