Systems Engineer (SE) - Skill Level 3

Kaizen Approach is currently seeking a Systems Engineer (SE) to analyze user requirements and develop system requirements, architectures, and technical solutions that support mission-critical programs.

In this role, you'll evaluate operational concepts, analyze system requirements, lead design and development activities, and provide technical leadership throughout the integration of requirements, design, and emerging technologies.

You'll develop system architecture, engineering, integration, testing, and technical documentation while guiding implementation planning and incorporating new systems into ongoing operations.

This position involves serving as the primary technical authority for Systems Engineering efforts, collaborating with Government stakeholders and program teams, resolving technical issues, and ensuring the technical integrity of all engineering deliverables.

• Must have the ability to manage system and derived requirements to ensure production systems align with defined architectures, including DoDAF and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), while developing, implementing, and maintaining operational, technical standards, system, and services views using applicable DoDAF standards and comprehensive SOA solutions.
• Must possess the ability to develop, contribute to, review, and approve systems engineering documentation, including System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements Specifications, Interface Control Documents, Joint Capability Integration Development System (JCIDS) documents, concepts of operation, interface standards, system architectures, and written verification plans that ensure requirements, processes, and specifications are accurate, complete, and meet mission needs.
• Must be capable of eliciting, analyzing, deriving, allocating, managing, and controlling system, functional, lower-level, and Information Assurance requirements; establishing approved system baselines; maintaining traceability; managing requirement changes; developing system design solutions and alternatives; and ensuring requirements are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, verifiable, and aligned with stakeholder needs throughout the system lifecycle.
• Must have the ability to provide technical direction for the engineering, development, interfacing, integration, testing, assessment, and management of complex hardware and software systems; participate in Integrated Product Teams (IPTs); coordinate Configuration Control Board (CCB), design, program, and test review actions; define and manage interfaces; capture interface designs in a common repository; establish formal integration processes across multiple teams; serve as a CCB member; and ensure the technical integrity and configuration control of hardware, software, documentation, and system baselines throughout development, deployment, operations, and maintenance.