Senior Systems Engineer

About the role

This position will support a mission-focused customer throughout the full life-cycle development, integration, operation, and sustainment of a Radio Frequency Processing System. The Senior Systems Engineer will support RF system architecture, dataflow management, system design, production monitoring, technical documentation, and stakeholder coordination. The role is based in Fort Meade, Maryland and supports a mission-critical team contributing to national security initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Apply systems engineering principles throughout the system development life cycle, including requirements analysis, system design, integration, verification, validation, deployment, operations, and sustainment.
• Support Radio Frequency systems and associated analog-to-digital dataflow and conversion processes.
• Access and monitor production Apache NiFi environments to ensure inbound data is operational and flowing correctly.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve dataflow errors, processing issues, and system backlogs.
• Assist customers with data-formatting issues and coordinate technical resolutions with appropriate engineering teams.
• Develop preliminary system designs and clearly communicate system architecture, capabilities, limitations, and technical considerations to stakeholders.
• Create dataflow diagrams documenting the network connections, interfaces, dependencies, and services required for system functionality.
• Create and update engineering drawings, RF antenna drawings, network diagrams, and other technical documentation.
• Coordinate the collection and delivery of data samples required for engineering analysis, integration, testing, or troubleshooting.
• Prepare, submit, track, and maintain Data Management Requests and Data Change Requests.
• Coordinate requests to add Internet Protocol addresses and other system components to applicable System Security Plans.
• Work with cybersecurity, network, software, RF, and systems engineering personnel to ensure system changes comply with security and operational requirements.
• Analyze production dataflows to verify data completeness, availability, quality, timeliness, and proper routing.
• Troubleshoot system, network, interface, and data-ingestion issues affecting mission operations.
• Develop and maintain system requirements, interface documentation, technical procedures, engineering artifacts, and operational documentation.
• Use Confluence and Jira to document engineering activities, communicate technical information, manage tasks, and track issues through resolution.
• Participate in technical exchange meetings, design reviews, integration activities, risk assessments, and customer briefings.
• Communicate technical risks, dependencies, issues,