Systems Engineering Lead

Senior / Principal Systems Engineering LeadSciTec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace, is a dynamic non-traditional defense contractor that delivers advanced technologies in support of U.S. National Security. For over forty-five years, we have supported Department of Defense customers by developing innovative remote sensing algorithms, tools, and techniques to deliver world-class data exploitation capabilities supporting missile defense; intelligence, surveillance, & reconnaissance; space domain awareness; and aircraft survivability missions.SciTec exclusively works on U.S. government contracts that require U.S. citizenship for all employees. SciTec cannot sponsor or assume sponsorship of employee work visas of any type. Further, U.S. citizenship is a requirement to obtain and keep a security clearance. Applicants that do not meet these requirements will not be considered.SciTec has an immediate opportunity in our Boulder, CO office for a Senior / Principal Systems Engineering Lead with experience in microservices architectures, data center designs, and modular open systems architecture. This engineer will be responsible for leading an integrated systems engineering and systems modeling team to elaborate operational concepts, refine requirements, and create architectural designs to support the delivery of a combined hardware/software data processing system. This work will be performed collaboratively with both customer representatives and with SciTec technical staff.ResponsibilitiesCoordination with the acquisition program office and operational end-users to elicit, detail, and document operational concepts and stakeholder needs for the operation of a MOSA architecture hosting high-performance data processing applications.Development and analysis of system requirements which address identified stakeholder needs.Support to SciTec development teams in the design of system architectures which meet established requirements and align with customer concepts of operations.Coordination with integration, verification, and test teams to support requirements verification and validation.Managing the documentation of operational concepts, stakeholder needs, system requirements, and system architectures using Model-Based Systems Engineering toolsStaff mentoring and process improvement within the SciTec systems engineering teamAdditional duties as required and assigned