Systems Engineer III (Ground System IVVT)

Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit arcfield.com for more details.

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference in the government space? What if you could find a position that is tailor made for your mix of development, engineering, and communication skills?

That's why we need you, a Systems Engineer to provide the technical guidance and oversight in support of the customer's Integration, Verification, Validation & Test (IVV&T) function. You will support a Joint customer Program Office responsible for acquiring the future GEOINT Ground Architecture that will provide the user community with capabilities in a modular, open architecture that provides global, persistent, real-time surveillance and activity-based intelligence information. This position supports a hybrid agile process with the Government as the overall integrator. The customer environment is comprised of a variety of commercial and custom tools, including Jira, Confluence, TestRail, Zephyr, and requirements verification tools.

As a Systems Engineer III, you will support a wide-range of Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) and programmatic activities, to include:

• Support SE&I across customer program office IVV&T activities, including test planning, scheduling and integration, cross-program coordination in support of verification, test case analysis, test witnessing, applying automated testing concepts, and interacting with cross-component activities to ensure end-to-end requirements tracing through sell-off and reporting,
• Synthesize customer needs, requirements, and technical, schedule and cost constraints into recommendations and solutions for integrating, testing, evaluating, and transitioning systems into operations to deliver enterprise capabilities,
• Create, review/analyze, and coordinate a myriad artifacts, strategies, plans, conops, schedules, risks, Request For Change (RFC) documents, requirements, requirements traceability, test-related content, briefings, tasker responses, etc.
• Assist in the planning, management, review, execution, and improvement of related-enterprise and component-level SE&I agile processes
• Assist the Program Office in preparation for, and engagement in, agile planning and management activities to include increment and sprint planning and providing status, backlog grooming, scrum participation and facilitation, and impediment identification and resolution.
• Perform assessment and consultation on various mission, domain area, and technical products and activities as needed.
• Perform data analysis tasks and provide recommendations and status reporting on various metrics and systems/processes/activities.

Required skills:

• Possess and Maintain a TS/SCI with Poly
• BS 5-7 Years, MS 3-5, PhD 0-2
• Experience working in government or industry in relevant SE&I-related functions including: requirements processes, execution of requirements derivation, decomposition and sell-off; software test planning and scheduling, integration, verification, validation and transition; and/orautomated testing
• Experience authoring, reviewing, and coordinating a variety of technical documentation to include Request For Change (RFCs), Test plans and schedules, context diagramming with respect to test events
• Demonstrated experience with, and understanding of, the systems engineering life cycle, governance processes, and project management
• Experience and ability to work collaboratively with mission partners and stakeholders across organizational boundaries
• Great customer teaming skills: ability to lead and collaborate in cross-functional teams
• Accomplished written communicator and presenter
• Ability to organize, schedule, and accomplish a wide variety of tasks
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Atlassian Jira and Confluence

Desired skills:

• Experience with TestRail or Zephyr test tools
• Experience with Atlassian Jira Roadmaps
• Agile Solution Implementation

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.