Swift
Senior Systems Engineer
Swift, Chantilly, VA
The Swift Group is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer will serve as the technical lead and support all engineering aspects of the project. The mission is to provide quality services that facilitate seamless software development lifecycle and API and Gateway with modern data repository services. This role requires support for planning future architectures, infosec assurance and accreditation, Configuration Management, and System Engineering for a complex portfolio of legacy and future data tools. This position is located onsite in Chantilly, VA
Key Responsibilities:
Required Skills and Experience:
Desired Skills and Experience:
The Swift Groups is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify, analyze, define, and coordinate user, customer, and stakeholder needs and translate them into technical requirements.
- Work with technical and analytical counterparts to define constraints and develop requirements and concept of operations documentation.
- Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies.
- Evaluate industry offerings to identify products and technologies with the potential to support strategic IT initiatives.
- Identify and manage dependencies with other systems and elements of the system.
- Provide conceptual design, prototype, and test cycles appropriate to a chosen technical solution.
- Coordinate and manage the resolution of issues impacting multiple groups within the organization.
- Assess system designs to validate them against technical parameters.
- Identify hardware and applications needed to complete the development process.
- Translate technical information into clear documentation and presentations for technical and non-technical personnel.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 16+ years of relevant experience.
- Demonstrated experience with system architecture, systems engineering concepts, and security.
- Demonstrated experience with configuration management.
- Demonstrated experience identifying technology gaps in current capabilities and processes.
- Demonstrated experience developing and interfacing with APIs.
- Demonstrated experience using AWS, including S3, EBS, RDS, and EC2.
- Demonstrated experience using Oracle and PostgreSQL databases.
- Demonstrated experience developing and supporting applications using Java, JavaScript, and Python.
- BA/BS Degree or five or more years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree
- US Citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required
Desired Skills and Experience:
- Demonstrated experience implementing automated integration with IT Operations change management platform and adhering to its business operation processes.
- MA/MS Degree.
The Swift Groups is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.