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Role Title: Systems engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: 6+ months Contract
Job Description:
Education: Bachelors Degree OR 8+ years of relevant work experience in System engineering.
Job Description:
Client is looking for an experienced EDI systems lead to provide technical leadership to software development teams and operations, having supported the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Information and Technology (Client) Office of Community Care (OCC) and who is familiar with VA Client's product line management (PLM), software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices, and development, security, operations (DevSecOps) methodologies.
Required Skills:
" Knowledge of VA's Office of Community Care (OCC) EDI TAS program, software architectures, databases, web-based/mobile applications, enterprise IT solutions, and IT security requirements and standards
Prior VA Client SDLC systems engineering experience leading activities for enterprise VA systems and improving the interoperability of VA's IT ecosystem, in accordance with SAFe practices
Bachelor's Degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline, or 8+ years of relevant work experience "
Preferred Skills: " Systems engineering lead experience with OCC EDI TAS
5+ years of prior work experience leading and orchestrating SDLC engineering related activities using Jira, system engineering plans and procedures
SAFe or SAFe for Government Certified
Able to acquire a U.S. Public Trust "
Responsibilities:
Lead systems engineering efforts, using scaled agile framework (SAFe) and operating in a VA Client DevSecOps environment to facilitate streamlined performance of VA Client's SDLC and delivery of IT enhancements/features
Ensure a consistent and scalable development methodology for scrum teams across VA product lines and IT products
Create detailed systems engineering plans in collaboration with organizational stakeholders and in compliance with VA/VA Client policy
Develop and execute a systems engineering approach, monitoring for opportunities to enhance overall SDLC efficiency (e.g., use of automation) and VA Client system interoperability
Proactively collaborate with product line managers, leads, and scrum teams to plan and execute key phases of VA Client's SDLC, including data validation
Develop detailed data architectures and data maps illustrating data flows across VA product lines and IT products to enhance scrum team design/development efforts, including the standardization/normalization of VA Client data
Strategy development
Systems analysis and engineering
Cloud suitability assessment
Solution architecture "