Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
Support technical direction and design to software agile development teams, and other Engineering personnel.
Perform technical analyses and define how the system works creating use cases, system capability and feature designs, defining system interfaces and acceptance criteria.
In this role, the candidate will provide engineering support for the implementation of a portion of the program’s systems engineering.
To succeed in this role, you must have systems engineering development lifecycle experience using an Agile methodology.
Collaborate with the systems engineering teams to design and develop software
Assist in providing technical information and clarification during the entire software development lifecycle, from conceptualization and design to development, testing, deployment, and operations.
Perform solution decomposition from customer epics, to capabilities, to features, to stories according to SAFe Agile practices
Apply systems engineering expertise to feature designs to reduce overall risk to the software development effort
Engage with customer user representatives or subject matter experts to gather user needs and incorporate into the feature designs for the agile development teams
Engage with SMEs from other disciplines to fully understand the solution and document the designs.
Required Skills:
Demonstrated system engineering and technical experience with software systems development
Experience in agile software development activities, including system level design specification and integration test and verification activities (full SE life cycle)
Experience interacting across multiple engineering disciplines, including both programmatic and technical
Experience working in an Agile development team environment with multi-discipline engineers and stake holders, developing system solutions to meet customer requirements, requirements decomposition, and experience with CONOPS development
Experience working on teams addressing solution definition, decomposition, design and acceptance criteria
Experience performing design activities with cross-disciplined engineering teams
Experience working in the software development Lifecyle
Desired Skills:
SIGINT, GEOINT, or Multi-INT Intelligence Community (IC) background with end user mission experience
Experience in a technical role of a large multi-disciplined engineering team
Experience with cloud-based S/W architectures and systems is a plus
Experience developing MBSE and DoDAF artifacts
Background and experience successfully working with all levels of engineering development in large government software development programs as well as an individual contributor as part of an agile development team
Engineering experience working in the full software development lifecycle using Agile methodology that ensures high quality software is built and released to end-users quickly and within cost and schedule parameters
Experience using Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.), and evaluation of requirements decomposition, system architecture and system design
Experience using MBSE processes and tools to capture systems design and elaboration in Cameo or similar tool
Experience in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and/or micro-service based systems
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.