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Systems Engineer – Standards / Technical Specifications

Leidos Bethesda, MD On-site senior full-time

Salary

$131,300 - $237,350 per year

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Description

Leidos is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer with expertise in Standards or Technical Specifications to join our Intel Sector Analysis Solutions Business Area (ASBA) team in Bethesda, Maryland. You will play a crucial role in enhancing and maintaining our client's technical specification repository using structured systems engineering methods.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Manage technical specifications used by multiple organisations, ensuring updates are issued according to a set schedule using systems engineering best practices.
  • Design and implement ontology and schema by evaluating technical specifications against user needs and policy, capturing the logic as information models with relevant properties, relationships, and taxonomies in machine-readable schema.

Required Qualifications:

  • Active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
  • Ability to work full-time on-site in Bethesda, Maryland.
  • Typically requires a BS degree and 12-15 years of prior relevant experience or a master's degree with 10-13 years of prior relevant experience.
  • Strong knowledge of standard software development processes such as DevOps, requirements engineering, coding, documentation, configuration management, quality assurance, integration, and testing.
  • Experience with relevant tools and languages like Protégé and OWL.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaboratively build code in team environments.
  • Excellent communication skills to translate technical insights into actionable recommendations.

Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience with automation pipelines.
  • Basic coding skills in Python or Java.
  • Master’s degree in a relevant field.
  • Five or more years of experience working with or in the Intelligence Community (IC).
  • Familiarity with U.S. Government information sharing frameworks, policies, and interoperability requirements.
  • Familiarity with system modeling and Unified Modeling Language (UML).

Leidos offers competitive benefits, including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and more.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • automation pipelines
  • Python
  • Java
  • Intelligence Community
  • U.S. Government information sharing frameworks
  • Unified Modeling Language (UML)
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