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