Sr. Systems Engineer, TS/SCI w/Poly

Sr. Systems Engineer, TS/SCI w/Poly

Job Locations


US-MD-Laurel

Requisition ID


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Position Category


Information Technology

Clearance


Top Secret/SCI w/Poly

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for data flows, data architecture, and data storage within a cloud-based data warehouse environment.
• Provide strategic guidance on data ingest, storage, and lifecycle management, including compliance, data integrity, deduplication, and data aging strategies.
• Lead efforts to integrate and migrate legacy data into modern architectures while ensuring continuity, accessibility, and compliance.
• Deliver regular status updates to senior leadership and engineering stakeholders on critical activities, system health, and risks.
• Perform hands-on data analysis using custom tools and scripts to query, tag, preserve, or remove data across large-scale datasets (millions to billions of records).
• Support transition and decommissioning activities, including historical data migration, system sunset planning, and data disposition.
• Investigate and resolve data-related issues, incidents, and anomalies; support ad hoc customer requests and operational needs.
• Provide technical leadership as a Team Lead within an Agile development environment; support sprint planning, execution, and delivery.
• Serve as Scrum Master, facilitating Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Mentor and coach junior systems engineers; provide technical oversight and backup support as needed.

Systems Engineering & Architecture

• Analyze user requirements and develop Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), system architectures, and detailed system requirements specifications.
• Lead system design and development activities, ensuring alignment between requirements, architecture, and implementation.
• Guide stakeholders in refining requirements, evaluating alternatives, and conducting feasibility and trade-off analyses.
• Develop and maintain system engineering artifacts, including system engineering management plans, integration plans, and test strategies.
• Design and develop Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based solutions.
• Create DoDAF-compliant architectural views, including operational, system, and technical standards views.
• Conduct and/or approve end-to-end trade studies to optimize system performance, scalability, and lifecycle cost.
• Utilize modeling, simulation, and prototyping to reduce risk and improve system design decisions.
• Manage system configuration and changes throughout the lifecycle; participate in Configuration Control Boards (CCB) and Engineering Review Boards (ERB).
• Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, and recommend courses of action; track and reassess risks at key milestones.
• Support Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) efforts by evaluating solutions against cost, performance, risk, and environmental considerations.
• Provide technical direction across system integration, interfacing, and testing activities, including requirements allocation, interface definition, and end-to-end flow analysis.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Interface with Government leadership, program stakeholders, and senior executives to address technical challenges, risks, and system decisions.
• Collaborate across engineering teams, program management, and external partners to ensure alignment and successful delivery.

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Qualifications

• Twenty (20) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Demonstrated experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts 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
• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.

Desired Qualifications:

• AWS or similar cloud experience desired.
• Experience in architecting, migration, and hands-on, configuration is a plus

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on our critical National Security programs, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

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Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$176,000 - $282,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.