Ignite is an ISO 9001:2015 and CMMI Services Level 3 certified, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), headquartered in Huntsville, AL. By design, Ignite is a provider of professional services to customers in educational, federal, and commercial industries and in every action seeks to be the preeminent provider within this business space. Ignite upholds our values of competency, collaboration, innovation, reliability, and results through everything we do. Ignite is currently seeking a driven, detail-oriented Program Level Software Systems Engineer to join our team supporting the PEO Missiles and Space, Integrated Fires Mission Command (IFMC) AMD Mission Command Product Office in Huntsville, AL. This position is expected to be onsite. This is a Software System Engineer position with a focus on Mission Command Systems. The candidate in this role will work with both contractors, government civilians and system operators. Tasks include developing system level features with focus on THAAD integration with the Army Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) in describing MEI and CSCI behavior, performance, and acceptance criteria necessary to provide guidance for software implementation. Tasks also include leading reviews and adjudicating comments made against the features. An MBSE approach is used to document the features using an Agile workflow. Job Requirements Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: · Support Product Office leadership on all business, financial, contract, logistics and technical management activities associated with Army IBCS system integration with the MDA THAAD System. This will include coordination with PMO contracts, budget, acquisition and systems engineering teams for development of independent cost estimates, contracts requirement packages, acquisitions strategies and technical solutions and paths ahead. Additionally, this will include coordination with industry OEM counterparts’ contracts, program management, engineering, and logistics teams to track and manage overall GFE components’ status. · Represent the Product Office leadership in situations where the government leader is not available. · Support development of strategic and over-arching internal/external written and verbal communications for on-going activities. This includes weekly Situation Reports, updates to Command and Staff charts, and responses to internal and external taskers. · Manage and support internal/external coordination and strategic communications with FMS and Domestic partners and internal PMO functional leads/teams. · Coordinate IPTs, Meetings and Working Groups, develop briefings, agendas, minutes and action items. · Coordinate domestic and foreign disclosure staffing requests for Product Office related products planned for delivery or presentation to leadership and customers. Ensure products are properly marked according to PMO information security standards. · Develop and maintain historical archives to ensure activities, briefings and decisions are available for reference and to maintain the PMO/PdO leadership institutional knowledge. · Assess long-range factors in their potential to affect programmatic or technical progress of the project. · Provide periodic reviews with appropriate representatives to determine status of overall project and major milestones; ensure coordination of orderly phasing of all actions and cost, schedule, and performance risk; identify alternative risk mitigation approaches; and ascertain appropriate action required to maintain or improve project schedules. Job Requirements and Qualifications: Required Qualifications · 7 or more years of system engineering experience. · The candidate must have experience in one or more of the following areas: THAAD system, IBCS system, tactical command and control systems, tactical weapons systems, tactical sensor systems, software, hardware, requirements decomposition, or MBSE tools and languages · The candidate needs to have a record of taking initiative and being a team player in a small team environment. · The candidate must be comfortable working as a team member in an Agile environment and be willing to engage various levels of stakeholders to ensure that software is capable of meeting the needs of the intended users. · The candidate must be highly organized with a strong technical background in system engineering principles. Desired Qualifications · System engineering experience in support of DoD programs is highly desired, especially in an Army Air and Missile Defense program. · Hands on experience creating models in Cameo or MagicDraw using SysML and UAF are desired. · Experience using Atlassian tools such as Jira and Confluence and SAFe© Agile experience are plus. Security Clearance Requirements: Must have an active Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain one. Education Requirements: • A B achelor’s degree in engineering, science, or related field is required. Other Requirements: Must be a US citizen and be able to obtain and hold an active Security Clearance We are equal opportunity/affirmative action employers, committed to diversity in the workplace. 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