Systems Engineer - Interface Engineer

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency, is seeking a Systems Engineer - Interface Engineer to join our Client's team.

Position Responsibilities

• The Interface Engineer will lead the authoring the development of ICDs and IDDs.
• This includes establishing new interfaces between external elements, including sensors, and other Command and Control Systems
• The Interface Engineer will ensure that the ICDs and IDDs created are to the appropriate standards required of the program.
• Additionally, it is expected that the Interface Engineer develop various behavioral diagrams to understand and document the requirements.
• The Interface Engineer will create requirements, captured in DOORS, and at sufficient detail to provide a clear understanding to the implementation teams.
• The Interface Engineer's primary responsibility will be developing and updating of multiple Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and Interface Design Documents (IDDs).
• The successful candidate will attend interface working group meetings with MDA customers and representatives of the assigned external element engineering organization, as well as support program integration and test-related efforts for the associated interface.
• Successful candidate may also be assigned to support: other interface engineers in developing ICDs for other BMDS Elements, support requirements engineering, use case development, and logical architecture modeling tasks as SE department tasking requires.
• Successful candidate will support spiral leadership to assure interface artifacts and system assessment tasks required for the assigned sensor interface are completed when required.
  
  

Required Experience

• The successful candidate will have 9 years of professional experience in Systems Engineering or a related discipline.
• The candidate will have significant experience in authoring ICDs and IDDs that are DID compliant and to DoD Standards.
• Must be able to function as part of an experienced team in developing systems engineering products and artifacts while adhering to the program Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP) and other processes.
• Experience with authoring Missile Defense System (MDS) ICDs and IDDs is highly desirable.
• Experience in authoring Complex Command and Control Systems ICDs and IDDs is highly desirable.
  
  

Required Technical Experience

• Candidate must possess an understanding of the systems engineering process and principles.
• A successful applicant should have a proven track record of successfully applying system engineering principles to develop product solutions.
• Candidates must have experience in requirements elicitation, including the use of behavior diagrams as an analysis tool to understand and decompose requirements.
• Demonstrated Systems Engineering skills and experience with interface engineering including authoring of Interface Control Documents (ICDS) and Interface Design Documents (IDDS), to include: message definition and processing rules; message formatting (e.g. XML, VMF, et al); physical/network specifications and models, to include the ISO OSI model; physical/network topologies and devices; network protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, UDP, et al) is a must.
• Requirements engineering and development of behavioral models and diagrams, including use cases, sequence diagrams, and activity diagrams, are required.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, are a must
• Requirements engineering, to include experience working with IBM Rational's Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System (DOORS), is highly desirable.
• Risk Management Framework (RMF) -based cyber security, and experience with Agile or Iterative Development Methods are a plus.
  
  

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Software Engineering. Master's Degree desirable in an Engineering Discipline.
  
  

Security Clearance Required: Secret

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.