Principal Systems Engineer

GliaCell Technologies•Annapolis Junction, MD

5d•$200,000 - $280,000

About The Position

GliaCell is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer on one of our subcontracts. This is a full-time position offering the opportunity to support a U.S. Government customer. The mission is to provide technical expertise that assists in sustaining critical mission-related software and systems to a large government contract. The project supports a suite of web-based applications that automate data management for IC data custodians. The products facilitate the capture of information and approvals that allow for the movement of data through the customer mission space in a compliant manner. These products are critical to standardize and simplify data movement as well as data reuse and integration with downstream tools. The work offers flexible hours.

Requirements

Possess an active or rein-statable TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.
Professional/Education experience: Twenty (20) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
U.S. Citizenship.
Works well independently as well as on a team.
Strong communication skills.
Demonstrated experience supporting Systems Engineering efforts is required
Able to implement comprehensive SOA solutions
Able to conduct and/or approve end-to-end system trade analyses to optimize system operations over its life cycle through the proper balance of non-functional system performance areas
Able to ensure effective, periodic review and control of the evolving configuration of a system, both hardware and software components and associated documentation, during the life of the system
Able to develop system design alternatives that consider life cycle cost, reuse, complexity, risk, system expansion, and growth
Able to maintain knowledge of current and evolving agency, national, and international standards applicable to the system development of interest
Able to recommend a preferred solution based on selection criteria
Able to provide technical direction for the full systems engineering life cycle
Able to fully define interfaces in terms of origination, destination, stimulus, and data characteristics for software.

Nice To Haves

A working knowledge of smart data systems and entitlements
Experience with Java and Splunk is highly desired
Experience with current and evolving agency dataflow and reporting solutions
Experience in developing system performance, availability, scalability, manageability, and security requirements for mid-to-large scale systems
Experience in leading agile development models
Experience integrating COTS and GOTS products from multiple vendors
Experience developing and deploying storage within clustered or cloud environments
Experience planning and integrating secure compliant solutions based on legal, policy, and compliance directives

Responsibilities

Outline, develop and implement data engineering solutions.
Utilize a working knowledge of NiFi, be comfortable working in a Linux environment, interact with data ontologies (schemas), structured data types (XML, CSV, JSON), have database experience (MySQL/NoSQL) and analytic query experience with a platform.
Work with numerous concurrent IC-provided data sets to identify, map and model data transformation routines supporting ingestion into the customer's corporate repositories and be able to document new and existing data flows supporting data routing implementations.