Sr Principal Engineer Systems – Global SE Interface Lead

Sr Principal Engineer Systems – Global SE Interface Lead

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM Science, Computer Science, Technology, Engineering, Software Engineering, or Mathematics discipline preferred from an accredited university and 8 years of related work experience or a Master’s degree (preferred) in a related discipline and 6 years of related work experience, or PhD in a related discipline with 4 years of related work experience
• Applicants must have a current active in-scope DoD-issued Secret security clearance at the time of application, which is required to start
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% to support business needs
• Must possess an understanding of systems engineering processes and principles
• Must have a proven track record of successfully applying system engineering principles to develop product solutions
• Must have experience in authoring ICDs and IDDs that are DID-compliant and to DoD Standards
• Must be able to lead and 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
• Must have experience in requirements elicitation, including using 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), including: message definition and processing rules, message formatting (e.g., XML, VMF, et al.), physical/network specifications and models, including the ISO OSI model, physical/network topologies and devices, network protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, UDP, et al.) is a must
• Requirements include engineering and development of behavioral models and diagrams, including use cases, sequence diagrams, and activity diagrams
• Must have excellent communication skills
• Requirements engineering, including experience working with IBM Rational’s Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System (DOORS)
• Risk Management Framework (RMF) based cyber security and experience with Agile or Iterative Development Methods

Responsibilities

• Developing and updating multiple Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and Interface Design Documents (IDDs)
• Assist in the training and mentoring of the Interface Team
• Develop and oversee the development of various behavioral diagrams to understand and document the requirements
• Create requirements captured in DOORS and in sufficient detail to provide a clear understanding to the implementation teams
• Develop and oversee the development of behavioral diagrams to understand the requirements and behavior of the interface
• Attend interface working group meetings with MDA customers and representatives of assigned external element engineering organizations, as well as support program integration and test-related efforts for the associated interface
• May 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
• Support spiral leadership to ensure interface artifacts and system assessment tasks required for the assigned sensor interface are completed when needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification: INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) Certification
• Certification: Object Management Group Certified Systems Modeling Professional – Model Builder Fundamental (OCSMP – MBF)
• Experience authoring Space or Terrestrial Sensors, Missile Defense Systems (MDS), or Space Domain ICDs and IDDs is highly desirable