# Junior Systems Engineer

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Annapolis Junction, MD
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $119,000 - $161,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join GDIT as a Junior Systems Engineer and build an impactful career, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful. As a Systems Engineer, you will play a crucial role in assisting and overseeing the planning, design, and implementation of a mission-critical system.

Responsibilities:

- Requirements Gathering & Decomposition: Elicit and document functional requirements from the government customer and stakeholders, decomposing them into detailed technical requirements.

- User Story Development: Translate technical requirements into well-defined user stories and acceptance criteria for the development team.

- Sprint Curation: Curate and groom the sprint backlog, ensuring stories are appropriately sized and sequenced so each developer has sufficient, well-scoped work.

- Developer Support: Serve as a point of contact for developers, addressing implementation questions and helping remove blockers throughout the sprint.

- Initial Testing: Conduct initial functional testing of new development to validate features against requirements before broader QA and customer review.

- Customer Presentation: Present new development and completed features to the government customer, gathering feedback for future iterations.

- UX Collaboration: Partner with the UX team on new designs, ensuring requirements and user stories reflect usability and design considerations.

- Agile Ceremonies: Participate actively in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, demos, retrospectives) and support the broader development lifecycle.

Required Skills and Experience:

- Ability to work directly with customers and stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document functional requirements

- Ability to translate requirements into actionable Jira user stories and epics for development teams

- Experience conducting functional/manual testing of application features

- Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence

- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical work to non-technical stakeholders

- Familiarity with software development concepts (e.g., Java or JavaScript frameworks, RESTful microservices) sufficient to communicate effectively with developers

Desired Skills and Experience:

- Familiarity with Cloud-based architecture and deployment (Amazon Web Services)

- Exposure to UX/design collaboration or wireframing tools

- Familiarity with domain knowledge surrounding government agency reporting and dissemination policies

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages

- 401K with company match

- Competitive pay and paid time off

- Full flex work weeks where possible

- Paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave

- Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

## Skills

### Required
- Agile Methodology
- Agile Scrum Development
- Systems Design
- Jira
- Confluence
- Java
- JavaScript
- RESTful microservices

### Nice to have
- Cloud-based architecture
- Amazon Web Services
- UX/design collaboration
- wireframing tools

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