Systems Engineer

About the role

At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world’s most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what’s possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future. As a Systems Architect, you will leverage your technical breadth and experience with custom software solutions to meet our client’s critical and complex mission needs. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast‑paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative software delivery environment and has an array of skills within the systems engineering discipline. You will work alongside a multi‑disciplinary Agile development team to define and manage interfaces across multiple offices, coordinate schedules and integration of internal and external interfaces, support testing activities across environments, risk identification, as well as definition and management of processes. Your insight will be vital to navigate our client’s evolving and expanding requirements as the Intelligence Community propels into the next age of innovation.

Location: Englewood, CO or Herndon, VA

Responsibilities

• Define and manage system interfaces across multiple offices.
• Coordinate schedules and integration of internal and external interfaces.
• Support testing activities across environments, including test events and acceptance criteria.
• Identify risks and define/manage engineering processes.
• Produce and maintain architecture/interface artifacts such as Interface Control Documents (ICDs), sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams, and dependency maps.
• Plan and execute system integration efforts, including integration strategy and interface coordination.
• Develop CONOPS and translate operational workflows into system requirements and interfaces.
• Communicate with stakeholders, conduct cross‑team coordination, technical writing, and design reviews.

Requirements

• Experience with system architecture and design, including decomposing capabilities into services/components and documenting interfaces and dependencies.
• Extensive experience producing and maintaining architecture/interface artifacts (ICDs, sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams, dependency maps).
• Experience planning and executing system integration efforts (integration strategy, interface coordination, test events, acceptance criteria).
• Experience with SMF environments and services.
• Knowledge of AWS fundamentals (networking, compute, storage, IAM).
• Knowledge of cloud‑native technologies (Docker, Helm, Kubernetes).
• Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) for backlog management, documentation, and engineering workflows.
• Experience developing CONOPS and translating operational workflows into system requirements and interfaces.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills (cross‑team coordination, technical writing, design reviews).
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the SIGINT domain with customer/mission context.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Retirement benefits.
• Paid leave.
• Tuition assistance and professional development.

Pay

Salary range: $139,676 – $209,513 USD (annualized). The specific salary offered is determined by factors such as education, experience, knowledge, skills, geographic location, contract affordability, and organizational requirements.