We provide our federal customers with an exciting variety of IT and Intelligence services. In order to achieve our company growth goals, continually surpass our customer’s expectations and provide new opportunity for our employees, Metronome must attract the most professional and qualified employees.

Metronome believes in a strong company culture rooted in its core values and belief in our overall mission. We believe in supporting one another, exceeding our customer’s expectations, executing with passion and celebrating all successes. We work hard and encourage one another to have fun doing it.

Metronome is looking for individuals who also believe in these core set of values, those who yearn to support our nation’s vital projects and those who desire to work for a fast growing small business that appreciates each employees’ contributions and trusts them to make decisions while representing Metronome…those who Keep Projects Pulsing.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Metronome is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants for employment, to assure that individuals with disabilities enjoy full access to equal employment opportunity (EEO). Metronome shall provide reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees and applicants with disabilities, unless Metronome can demonstrate that a particular accommodation would impose an undue hardship on business operations. Applicants requesting a reasonable accommodation may make a request.

A Senior Systems Engineer is needed to provide technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of specific components of complex hardware/software systems, including requirements elicitation and reviews, analysis and functional allocation, developing concepts of operation and interface specification, developing system architectures, performing technical/non-technical assessment and management, and end-to-end workflow and process analysis.

The Senior Systems Engineer will be part of the Project Integration Team. The Senior Systems Engineer will have traditional Systems Engineering experience, with the demonstrated ability to apply the Systems Engineering discipline from a lifecycle perspective to support the delivery, configuration, setup, test and deployment of new capabilities. During this lifecycle, the candidate will perform continuous status analysis and reporting, to ensure a solid understanding of each project's transition status throughout the lifecycle. The candidate will also provide architecture product and production support, primarily focused on the production of DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) products, to support Infrastructure Support Provider requirements.

DUTIES

• Designs and defines system architecture for new or existing computer systems
• Performs complex systems development and design work that may include logic design, I/O design, firmware development, model formulation, manufacturing and development cost projections, computer architecture analysis and design, and analog or digital systems engineering
• Performs systems modeling, simulation, and analysis
• Plans upgrades of operating systems and designs system enhancements
• Develops documentation on new or existing systems
• Develops and conducts tests to ensure that systems meet documented user requirements
• Identifies, analyzes, and resolves system problems
• Provides system/equipment/specialized training and technical guidance
• Determines system specifications, input/output processes, and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility
• Provides guidance and work leadership to less-experienced systems engineers and may have supervisory responsibility
• May serve as a technical team or task lead
• Serves as liaison with clients, participating in meetings to ensure that client needs are met
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned and participates in special projects as required
• Manages the transition of a capability through the SE lifecycle and supports the Governance Board structures that have been established to manage programmatic changes
• Identifies areas of gaps and inefficiencies, provides specific inputs and recommendations, and works hand-in-hand with the government client, to obtain support and authorization for delivering solutions
• Assesses requirements changes and their impacts on the customer's program baseline requirements
• Analyzes existing SE processes and provides guidance and leadership to implement a more systematic and rigorous process, which will support the management of change, both within and external to the program
• Leads the development and enhancement of lifecycle artifacts, required to be developed during the SE lifecycle (example artifacts include ROMs, project plans, project schedules, requirements plan such as SRDs, detailed design documents, CONOPs, test plans, SEMPs, transition activity plans, etc.)

• Government clearance required
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.
• Master’s Degree preferred
• 10-15 years of related systems engineering experience
• Must exhibit good communication and customer support skills
• Must be able to effectively communicate across the AIT Program, with the client, and with other contractors
• Has a historical understanding of the client and its evolution, with respect to SE practices, as a result of lessons learned during the customer's preparation, execution, and transition out of BRAC
• Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised or with a small team
• Must be a team player and be willing to both share knowledge and learn from others, to ensure the team's success
• Must be able to manage priorities across multiple projects
• Must be able to work within tight schedule timelines, while delivering high quality products to the customer
• 5+ years of experience as a Lead Systems Engineer, including experience in leading, managing, and collaborating with a broad range of organizations and groups/teams needed to accomplish the system engineering tasks
• Demonstrated experience leveraging a Systems Engineering lifecycle, such as the Systems Engineering "V" concept, to manage change to the infrastructure
• Proven experience in successfully serving as a Project/Capability Lead, with the responsibility of managing the lifecycle integration of a capability and its associated components into an existing architecture
• Demonstrated experience in Requirements Management, including user engagement, to perform requirement elicitation and derivation, generation of formal requirement documents, and verification activities to close-out project requirements
• Demonstrated experience with DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) 2.0, with the ability to work across managed infrastructure services to create required architecture views
• Experience in SE-related areas, such Configuration Management, Change Management, Risk Management, Quality Assurance, and Process Management desired
• ITIL Foundations knowledge, or an understanding of ITIL and the application of domain knowledge of the customer's architecture and infrastructure desired
• Demonstrated experience with the customer's or Mission Partner Systems desired
• Familiarity with the customer's leadership and organization desired
• Demonstrated understanding of the readiness processes desired (control gates, board structure, etc.)
• Experience in supporting Strategic Planning activities desired

Core Values

Passion - We believe.  We execute with all we have.
Improving - We surpass our best efforts.
Teammates - We respect and support one another.
Mission - We align with our customers’ objectives.
Celebrate Success - We reward all achievements.