Description

Are you ready to work on projects that can potentially change the world? Join us at Leidos, where your most important work is ahead! You will enjoy great benefits such as four or more paid time off (PTO), flexible schedules, discounted stock purchase plans, unlimited education and training support, parental paid leave and more! If this sounds like a place you can thrive, keep reading!

The Leidos National Security Sector has a career opportunity for a Senior Software System Engineer at our Leidos facility in Columbia, MD.

Program Summary:

Our program is a large, multi-year contract for the development, integration, deployment, and sustainment of large, collection systems. The work that's being done on this Leidos-led, prime contract is extremely important to the government and offers its team members the opportunity to work autonomously and explore new technologies. Join a tremendous technical team solving hard problems with true mission relevance on emerging technologies.

Job Summary

As a Senior Software Systems Engineer you will develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse systems (e.g., processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, and business management information systems) based upon documented requirements. The ideal candidate will develop and maintain a Robot Framework / Python-based regression, acceptance, and field test suite that provides System Engineering Lifecycle tools to customer.

In this role you will be responsible for hardware and software integration, infrastructure, and provisioning. You will apply systems engineering principles throughout the systems life cycle phases: Concept, Development, Production, Utilization, Support, and Retirement. You will interact with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts. You will communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives. You will be responsible for the technical integrity, quality, and completeness of work performed and deliverables associated with one or more of the 25 process areas defined by the System Engineering Lifecycle.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Ensure all commitments are well defined, documented, reported, designed, provisioned, tested and appropriately managed and deployed.

• Create custom modules/libraries for Robot framework to assist in test development.

• Develop Bash or Python scripts to further automate and test in-house software packages.

• Provide training to software and system engineering teams on in-house software testing packages.

• Perform systems engineering activities and assist in the preparation of a work product in

• Technical Process Areas associated with the Systems Engineering Lifecycle.

• Perform systems engineering activities and assist in the preparation of multiple work products in Project and/or Technical Process Areas associated with any of the Systems Engineering Lifecycle processes.

• Assist in performing systems engineering activities in the Systems Engineering Lifecycle Agreement or Enterprise Process Areas.

• Perform analysis of technical alternatives for a project and make preliminary recommendations.

• Develop and deliver a work product in any of the Systems Engineering Lifecycle Process Areas.

• Perform systems engineering activities and develop and deliver work products of either the Systems Engineering Lifecycle Agreement or Enterprise Process Areas.

• Independently analyze, and recommend alternatives for elements of project’s technical design

• Perform systems engineering activities and develop and deliver work products in each of the Systems Engineering Lifecycle Project and Technical Process Areas.

• Supervise or coordinate the work of other contractor engineers or technicians on a project.

• Analyze and propose appropriate engineering standards and processes for a project.

• Assist in conducting an evaluation to determine its suitability for project implementation.

• Assist in developing a new or innovative approach to a technical or engineering issue.

• Brief stakeholders and present the status on all technical aspects of their project.

• Independently make decisions regarding engineering issues and methodology for a project.

• Approve delivery of work products of multiple Processes Areas defined in the Systems Engineering Lifecycle.

• Lead contractor systems engineering activities for a project to include supervising the work of the project engineering staff and technicians.

Security Clearance requirement:

• Must possess active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance to be considered for this role.

Basic Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance

• A Bachelor’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus fifteen (15) years of systems engineering experience. - OR - A High School Diploma plus nineteen (19) years of general systems engineering experience.

• Ability to Travel

• Experience working with agile software development workflows, such as sprints, and using Git for version control.

• Experience using JIRA for issue tracking, customer requests, and sprint Plan.

Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge in the following toolsets: Robot Framework, Python, BASH scripting, JIRA, and programming in a Linux environment

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Original Posting Date:

2024-07-17

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $122,200.00 - $220,900.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

REQNUMBER: R-00139652

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.