Position
Summary Base-2 Solutions is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to play a critical role in the design, engineering, development, and deployment of software supporting the DIA-NMEC DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP). The position supports the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) Modernization program and DIA-OSIC's mission to centralize and standardize Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) TCPED across the DoD and IC enterprise. The Senior Systems Engineer will work closely with leadership and government leads to decompose high priority
requirements into delivered solutions, executing
requirements analysis, design, system integration, and testing. The role involves leading an application team to maintain continuous software enhancements and deployments, managing risks, escalating impediments, and driving continuous process improvement. Essential
Duties and
- Manage, direct, coordinate, and provide technical direction for all aspects of the team's development efforts.
- Plan, design, and oversee implementation of software development solutions.
- Provide technical support, coordination, and execution of systems engineering activities including feature/
- Ensure sound engineering practices are followed.
- Provide direction for interpretation and application of policies and procedures to engineering and development activities.
- Develop a working knowledge of government business processes and provide recommendations accordingly.
- Collaborate with other development teams to identify and develop high-value integrations with other systems/applications.
- Develop, manage, and continually improve the backlog of work items for an Agile scrum team, updating and prioritizing stories and epics based on stakeholder feedback.
- Support Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) program increment planning and execution through creation of work tickets in GitLab and program/system documentation.
- Lead and participate in Agile ceremonies including daily stand up, planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Monitor increment and sprint progress and work with the team to identify and remove impediments and dependencies.
- Perform backlog refinement regularly, including decomposing features into stories, prioritizing backlog items, refining acceptance criteria and complexity estimates, or removing irrelevant tickets.
- Accept or reject completed work based on defined acceptance criteria to ensure delivery of high-quality software.
- Lead the design and architecture of backend systems and services.
- Drive initiatives related to scalability, reliability, and performance across the engineering team.
- Develop
requirements and design documents.
- Contribute to and review RFCs, and
- Coordinate with Test Team to develop and monitor automated system integration tests to identify failed modules and components.
- Manage individual project priorities, deliverables, and deadlines.
- Provide input to software components of system design including hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of COTS/GOTS, and
- Foster collaboration among team members to provide quality service and products to customers.
- Act as a mentor to mid-level and junior engineers, offering guidance on best practices and career growth. Required
Qualifications
- BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field and 12 - 15 years of prior relevant
experience or Masters with 10
- 13 years of prior relevant
experience. Additional years of
experience in lieu of degree are acceptable.
experience in languages such as Java or Python.
- Experience as a Systems Engineer, Product Owner, or similar role in an Agile software development team.
- Experience with
requirements and design documentation, including process flow diagrams.
- Demonstrated ability to break down complex problems into actionable steps.
- Experience managing and prioritizing product backlogs effectively.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and
experience with tools like GitLab, Jira, and Confluence.
- Experience facilitating scrum for the team (Planning, Retrospective, Grooming & Review/Demo).
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, design, and project management teams.
- Demonstrated ability to manage expectations and maintain strong relationships with government and contractor stakeholders.
Preferred
Qualifications
- Experience with Kafka or other message passing systems.
- Experience on a production/enterprise system.
- Cloud infrastructure
experience.
- Experience with Appian or other low-code software technologies.
- Experience with PostgreSQL.
- Experience with containerization, especially Docker.
- DevOps practices and tools including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools and practices, especially GitLab or Jenkins.
- Experience with GraphQL.
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- Proactive in identifying tech debt, systemic issues, and areas for team/process improvement.
- Expertise building and maintaining microservices in production in Kubernetes.
- Understanding of Elasticsearch internals: sharding, performance tuning, analyzers, query DSL.
- Elasticsearch certifications or other program stack related certifications.
- Strong Kafka
- Familiarity with schema registries and Kafka streaming patterns.
- Familiarity with authentication and authorization products such as Keycloak.
- Hardware on-prem and cloud-based deployments using Kubernetes.
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi).
Experience of production/enterprise systems at scale.
- Knowledge of distributed systems concepts (e.g., idempotency, eventual consistency).
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- Strong testing discipline with a focus on automation, coverage, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on development and/or scripting
experience, especially Java and Python.
- Experience with AWS cloud-based architecture, services, and software development. Required
Education and
Experience Equivalency
- BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field with 12 - 15 years of prior relevant
experience.
- Masters degree with 10 - 13 years of prior relevant
experience.
experience in lieu of degree. Required Certifications
- None specified. Required Security
Clearance