Principle Systems Engineer/Architect

Shall have a minimum of fifteen (15) years experience in systems, hardware and software engineering performing and providing technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of complex hardware/software systems to include requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, and performing technical/ non-technical assessment and management as well as end-to-end flow analysis.

Shall have ten (10) years experience as a systems engineering lead, software engineering lead or top level contributor on mission critical 24 by 7 SIGINT production systems in one or a combination of the following areas:

Voice or video processing systems requiring ingest of multiple audio and video formats, playback to end users, storage, and retrieval

Transcription systems requiring input, synchronization and linkage with original content, storage and retrieval

Field deployable voice processing systems including data capture of multiple audio formats playback, ingest, storage and retrieval

Average ingest storage, content search and retrieval of 500GB/day or more of multilingual text

Distributed Peer to Peer content storage and retrieval systems with more than 500 nodes.

Metadata indexing, metadata summarization, content and metadata data mining, visualization and analytics.

Shall have a minimum of ten (10) years experience leading, providing technical supervision, and guiding mid-level engineering personnel; solving varied technical/scientific problems; and generating and reviewing designs for technical accuracy, completeness and appropriateness in light of objectives, budget, and schedule, seven(7) years of which shall have been on DoD Agency projects.

Shall have experience in developing documentation required to support a program’s technical issues and t raining situations.

Shall have seven (7) years experience with Object Oriented and Structured development methodologies, networks, data storage, data modeling, security architectures.

Shall have seven (7) years experience with system architectures in a service oriented environment. Shall have seven (7) years experience using agile or spiral development models.

Shall have fifteen (15) years experience developing, delivering, testing and supporting integrated hardware and software systems with functional requirements within a CMMI level 2 or NSA Way process structure.

Shall have five (5) years experience “wrapping” legacy systems or components as Web Services within a SOA framework.

Shall have a minimum six (6 ) years demonstrated experience out of the most recent 8 years performing system engineering as a system engineering lead or as a top contributor for production software for one of the following environments: Windows .NET, or, Solaris, or Linux OS.

Shall have ten (10) years experience in developing system performance, availability, scalability, manageability, and security requirements for mid-to-large-scale system/programs.

Shall have ten (10) years experience in evaluating project needs, determining tasks and durations, allocating resources, generating and reviewing designs for technical accuracy, completeness and appropriateness in light of objectives, budget, and schedule, on NSA projects.