Systems Engineer: F-Mission Planning

Leidos has an immediate opportunity for a F-15 Mission Planning Systems Engineer

Primary job location is Fort Walton Beach, FL (Eglin AFB area). Applicants located in St. Louis, MO (Boeing software production area) or Massachusetts and New Hampshire (Hanscom AFB area) will be considered. The position offers remote work options, but the selected candidate must be willing to work on site at one of the above locations as needed.

• Be energetic, organized, eager to learn, and comfortable working and speaking in a team environment.
• Serve as a systems engineer and subject matter expert for Mission Planning software development.
• Act as an Agile Product Manager/Systems Engineer/Release Train Manager overseeing products representing client stakeholders.
• Create Technical Requirements Backlogs, Statements of Work, Contract Data Requirements Lists, and other documentation for new Mission Planning Delivery Orders.
• Coordinate with enterprise stakeholders to prioritize product backlogs for sprints and releases.
• Generate Mission Threads, use cases, and requirements packages; manage their traceability.
• Identify and manage internal and external dependencies.
• Analyze software development metrics, report results, and recommend corrective actions.
• Implement common Mission Planning processes and foster continuous improvement.
• Report technical status of product development to key stakeholders.
• Evaluate technical proposals and other data items, including architecture, requirements documents, designs, test plans/reports, and process descriptions.
• Represent the Government customer in Product Management, identifying customer needs, prioritizing features, guiding work through program-level processes, and developing the program vision and roadmap.
• Collaborate to ensure value through working software and products, including documentation.
• Attend Product Owner Scrum meetings and participate in Program Increment (PI) planning events.
• Support engineering roles in defining shared technical and architectural visions for the system/solution under development.
• Participate in determining system, subsystem, and interface specifications, validating technology assumptions, and evaluating alternatives with other Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Solution Trains.

• US citizen with an active DoD Secret clearance; eligible to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience or Master’s degree with 6+ years of relevant experience (additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree).
• Expertise in F-15 or fighter mission planning at the unit, wing, or AOC level.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for collaboration with customers, domain experts, and systems engineers.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).

• US citizen with an active DoD TS/SCI security clearance.
• Experience with Scrum at Scale or SAFe Agile processes.
• Experience with Jira, Jira Align, and Confluence.
• Experience with fighter aircraft operations.
• Knowledge of software testing concepts.
• Knowledge of software and systems engineering processes within the software development life cycle.
• General familiarity with DoD system development and acquisition processes.
• General familiarity with DoD technical order systems and processes.

$ – $. The pay range is a general guideline only.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.