Systems Engineer 4 – Enterprise Architecture

Work Location: Fort Meade, Maryland

Job Description:

Planet Works is a small, privately owned contracting company looking for quality candidates to serve as a Systems Engineer Level 4 in support of the Cyber Security Directorate, Fort Meade, Maryland. The successful candidate will provide CAMEO architecture expertise and administration and assist in developing architectural artifacts to document both as is and to be enterprise architectures. Provide support to the enterprise architecture team and data architects to generate high-quality, UAF compliant artifacts in a new organization that is in the process of standing up. Perform with limited guidance, interacting with teammates as required, to capture and document the enterprise system, and to demonstrate the impacts of suggested changes to the cybersecurity data architecture as well as highlighting changes and impacts to engineering requirements, capabilities and functions. Propose changes necessary to capture and access data from across the organization’s enterprise that enable corporate acquisition and decision-making processes, with emphasis on operational decisions.

Basic Qualifications:

• Active Top-Secret clearance with Polygraph, candidates without this will not be considered.
• Ten(10) years of experience as a Systems Engineer
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or other related discipline is required. A Master’s degree or PhD may be substituted for two years of experience. A high school diploma or GED plus 12 years of systems engineering experience would also be acceptable
• Recent CAMEO tool administration and use.
• Demonstrated and documented recent significant evidence of DoDAF and/or UAF based architecture artifacts.
• Demonstrated enterprise architecture development experience, particularly in the areas of data architecting and data engineering. Experience developing architectural artifacts from approved requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and track multiple activities in a fast-paced environment

Desired Qualifications:

• Recent experience supporting program roll-out messaging and communications on the importance of the architecture product line.
• Cyber domain experience.
• Ability to explain technical subjects to non-technical audiences.
• Experience with reference architecture design and mapping.
• INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional certification.

Benefits:

• 12% 401K regardless of what you contribute, vested immediately
• 100% fully covered health, dental and vision insurance
• 30 days of PTO per year to be used however you want
• Frequent company sponsored events
• $5250 (Max allowed by IRS) per year for training and education
• Annual bonuses and spot awards throughout the year
• Referral bonuses up to $5,000.