Interface Engineer - 25-074, 25-075

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External or Internal Interface Engineer conducting interface definition and revision to incorporate new system capabilities and spiral development changes that affect the interface. Primary responsibility will be developing and updating XML schemas (.xsd files) to support multiple Interface Control Documents (ICDs). Will work with multiple ICD authors and participate in multiple technical working groups to apply knowledge of the system domain and interface exchange requirements. Must have working knowledge of XML and proficiency in XML Spy. Successful candidate will attend interface working group meetings with MDA customer and representatives of assigned external element engineering organization as well as support to program integration and test related efforts for the associated interface. Successful candidate may also be assigned to support: other interface engineers in developing ICDs for other BMDS Elements; XML schema development; requirements engineering, use case development, and logical architecture modeling tasks as SE department tasking dictates. Successful candidate will support spiral leadership to assure interface artifacts and system assessment tasks required for the assigned sensor interface are completed when required.

• 9 years minimum professional experience with a bachelors degree, or 7 years minimum professional experience with a related masters degree
• Mid-Career experience performing pre-PDR systems engineering for DoD Information Systems
• Missile Defense Agency (MDA) sensor domain experience a plus
• Specific interface experience with the MDA elements or sensors is a significant plus
• Must be able to function as part of an experienced team in developing systems engineering products and artifacts while adhering to the program Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP) and other processes
• Experience with team leadership, task tracking, and issue resolution coordination is a significant plus
• Experience with Agile/Iterative development methods is also a significant plus

• Demonstrated Systems Engineering skills and experience with interface engineering, to include: message definition and processing rules; message formatting (e.g. XML, VMF, et al); physical/network specifications and models, to include the ISO OSI model; physical/network topologies and devices; network protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, UDP, et al)
• In addition, requirements engineering, to include experience working with IBM Rational\'s Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System (DOORS)
• Desired skills include: requirements engineering, use case development, logical architecture modeling, MBSE modeling, to include: behavioral modeling (use cases, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, statechart diagrams, etc.); structural modeling (structural composition diagrams, interface diagrams, conceptual object diagrams, etc.); et al., SysML, BMDS domain experience, RMF-based cyber security, and project planning using Earned Value Management techniques and tools

• Bachelors Degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Software Engineering. Masters Degree desirable in an Engineering Discipline.

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