MBSE Team Lead - 1001 (24-050)

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This is one of five team leadership roles within the Systems Engineering team part of the Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) Resource Management Area (RMA).

The team lead:

- Is the first line of leadership for all MBSE team members and reports to the SE Engineering Manager

- Is responsible for maintaining accurate metrics of team progress

- Supports all team staffing responsibilities, including interviewing new candidates, dealing with team performance issues, and supporting team member growth and development

- Is also expected to be technically competent in all the work performed by the team such that they can acts a reviewer of product to ensure quality

- Is responsible for leading iteration planning for the team

The selected applicant will consume use cases, and systems engineering artifacts including definition of Epics and Features to implement customer requested capabilities. Support the development and review of interface documents, system requirements, Verification Cross Reference Matrix (VCRM) development, architectural documentation, system engineering estimates, and author and perform formal and informal engineering reviews. Position will also provide support to junior systems engineering team members to enhance skills in the department.

- Must have the ability to be flexible to support various tasking on short notice

- Work will be performed under the direction of various technical leads and product owners and require interfacing with team members, C2BMC management, and government customers to ensure high quality products are generated on time and within the resources available

Additional responsibilities include:

- Adhering to DOORS processes and procedures

- Reviewing the content and details of technical products

- Acting as a technical interface to MDA working level counterparts on an as-required basis

- Be actively involved in the efforts associated with Agile development including iteration planning and status 

Experience Required

• Foundational System Engineering experience must include specific roles on a program with respect to use case development, requirements solicitation, derivation, and decomposition through a structured and logical approach
• Demonstrated ability to analyze high level needs utilizing use cases/scenarios and relate them to the requirements
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly present technical approaches and findings
• Demonstrated ability to implement engineering plans within a project
• Experience with Cyber Security, Risk Management, and network design are also desired 

Technical Skills Required

• Must have experience with complex command and control systems, mission analysis, performance analysis, requirements solicitation, decomposition, and management, application of modeling to testing and verification
• Demonstrated experience in the development of models to drive solutions in complex systems, with specific expertise in DoDAF and SysML methodologies (e.g., OOSEM or SysMOD)
• Demonstrated ability to perform Object Oriented Analysis to decompose existing (or proposed) systems into executable SysML models
• Thorough understanding of SysML element types to create logical and physical models that depict static and dynamic system behaviors
• Must have a good understanding of the “layered Architecture” concept and be able to illustrate how Layered Architecture could be applied to modeling system behaviors such as: element interactions, internal and external interfaces, states, and viewpoints/views
• Should have extensive experience transitioning a mature and evolving projects into MBSE
• Candidate should have experience with Cameo (or Magic Draw) and Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements (DOORs)
• A deep understanding of requirements solicitation, derivation, and decomposition to lower-level subsystems and components; maintenance of system and component baselines in a requirement management system; defining the relationships between internal and external components; communicating system level use cases and associated Epics and Feature relationships to a diverse group of customers, developers, engineers, subject matter experts, and users
• Experience with other MBSE tools like SparxEA or Rhapsody is a plus
• Should have a good understanding of Data Quality with respect to MBSE model sustainment
• The ability to be part of an integrated team tasked with developing and maintaining the physical, functional, and technical baselines necessary to describe the desired capabilities of an evolving BMDS Command & Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) System
• Experience with Agile Methods, and Epic and Feature definition is a plus
• Knowledge and skill with cyber security concepts and security accreditation processes are highly desirable 

Education Required

• Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 14 years of increasingly responsible Systems Engineering roles in the development, integration and support of large-scale software intensive systems. A Master's degree and 12+ years of relevant experience may be substituted.
• Secret Clearance Required

Benefits: Benefit offerings include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, paid holidays, flexible PTO program, 401k program. Come join a Top Places to Work organization!

U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions at Zivaro, due to security clearance and government/federal contracts held by Zivaro.

EEO STATEMENT

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