General/Interdisciplinary Engineer, Principal

Torch Technologies is a 100% employee-owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of Defense. As one of the nation’s top 100 defense companies, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country. Our corporate mission is “Lighting the Pathway of Freedom.” As a Certified Evergreen ESOP, we are committed to growing and sustaining our company for the next 100 years.

About the role

This position supports the EPASS GB contract as part of the AFLCMC/GB Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate. The Maintenance Repair and Overhaul Initiative (MRO) is a DOTMLPF-P transformation and standardization of both business processes and enabling materiel solutions, providing the Air Force Sustainment Center (AFSC) with an integrated capability for planning, scheduling, and executing organic depot maintenance. MRO supports agile planning, optimized workload assignment, resource allocation, and integrated quality.

The MRO materiel solution is a web-enabled system operating within the .mil network, implementing a configured Oracle enterprise Business Suite (eBS) Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software product. The core module for user interaction is "complex MRO," supplemented by other eBS suite modules and Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, and Extensions (RICE) objects. MRO is divided into four software releases, covering planning, scheduling, and execution for commodities, electronics, missile, and propulsion maintenance groups. It replaces legacy systems with a common enterprise business system, optimizing resources and improving warfighter capabilities.

MRO operates within a Defense Information System Agency (DISA) hosted environment and interfaces with various legacy systems to support continuous depot maintenance operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide cross-cutting engineering technical and functional support across the MROi Integrated Program Office to inform the Chief Engineer and other Program Leaders regarding a wide range of engineering issues and efforts.
• Interact with internal and external stakeholders, Program Managers, functional customers, and industry counterparts.
• Engage and collaborate with customers and service providers for ongoing and future capability development, sustainment, and IT solution space analyses to optimize MROi execution.
• Construct briefings, reports, studies, analyses, recommendations, and other documentation.
• Develop and maintain relationships with MROi stakeholders, including Cloud One, Oracle, Cloud Service Providers, Accenture, other Air Force ERP Programs, and key vendors.
• Conduct reviews on program documentation to evaluate and recommend alternative plans, improve systems engineering processes, manage program technical baselines, and execute system-level tests to ensure subsystem and system performance meets approved requirements.
• Support collaboration, knowledge, and resource sharing within and across the IPO.
• Establish processes and procedures to improve program technical baseline management.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship.
• Master's Degree in a relevant field and 7 years of related experience OR Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 11 years of related experience.
• Advanced knowledge, experience, and recognized expertise in software and systems engineering, with the ability to perform tasks and oversee junior and mid-level personnel.
• Comprehensive understanding and ability to apply associated standards, procedures, and practices in the software test field.
• Extensive knowledge and proficiency with software and systems development of IT/Business Systems.
• Experience with the implementation of new IT/Business System technologies, including Cloud Infrastructure and Enterprise Resource and Planning (ERP) systems.
• General working knowledge of the Air Force Systems Engineering Assessment Model (AF SEAM) and the Air Force Systems Engineering Process (SEP).
• General working knowledge of DoD Acquisition policy, specifically DoDI 5000.75 (knowledge of DoDI 5000.02 is also applicable).
• Working knowledge of Agile Development Methodology (specifically SAFe) and DevSecOps.
• Highly proficient with computers and software applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint, Access, Project, Atlassian Jira, and Confluence.
• Exceptional attention to detail, highly organized, and able to multi-task.
• Impeccable verbal and written communication skills.
• Must have and be able to maintain a T3/Secret security clearance.

Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (or associate).
• AWS Cloud Practitioner or Microsoft Azure equivalent.
• Current certification in Oracle/OCI products and/or databases.
• CompTIA Security+ CE.
• Agile Certifications.

Schedule

Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM.

Benefits

• ESOP participation.
• 401(k) match.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability.
• Flexible spending accounts, Health Savings Accounts (HSA), and Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRA).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Education assistance.
• Paid time off and holidays.