Ardent
Systems Engineer
Suitland, MD
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About the role
- Ardent is seeking a System Engineer to join our team.
- This is a onsite position in Suitland, MD.
- Ardent is an equal opportunity employer.
Responsibilities
- Ardent is seeking a Systems Engineer to provide technical leadership in the design, implementation, integration, and maintenance of enterprise IT systems.
- Provide technical leadership for the design, development, implementation, integration, and maintenance of enterprise IT systems and solutions.
- Analyze business, operational, and mission requirements and translate them into technical architectures and system design solutions.
- Develop and maintain system engineering artifacts, including system architecture diagrams, interface specifications, requirements traceability matrices, and technical documentation.
- Support the development and implementation of scalable, reliable, and secure IT systems.
- Lead system design reviews, technical assessments, and architecture evaluations.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, project managers, developers, architects, and operational teams to ensure successful system delivery.
- Drive the adoption and utilization of Agile and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodologies across engineering teams.
- Support quality assurance activities to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and best practices.
- Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies throughout the system lifecycle.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Minimum of 15 years of professional experience in systems engineering, systems architecture, enterprise IT, or related technical leadership roles.
- Experience supporting organizations within the geospatial industry.
- Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, DoDAF, or similar.
- Familiarity with cloud-based architectures and modern DevSecOps practices.
- Experience supporting large-scale government, defense, intelligence, or mission-critical systems.
- Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.
- The ideal candidate will possess deep systems engineering expertise, experience supporting complex IT environments, and a strong understanding of systems architecture, Agile methodologies, and solution design.
Compensation
- We will not discriminate in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gend
Company info
- This role is responsible for translating business and mission requirements into scalable, secure, and sustainable technical solutions while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and best practices.
- Experience within the geospatial industry is highly desirable.
- At Ardent, we hire people who want more than a job - they want to serve a mission that matters.
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