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**Job Description:**



Accenture Federal Services is seeking a System Engineer to analyze users requirements, concept of operations documents, and high level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications. Analyzes system requirements and leads design and development activities.



**Responsibilities include:**



+ Analyze system requirements and leads design and development activities.

+ Guide users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches, and conducts feasibility studies.

+ Provide technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology.

+ Incorporate new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations.

+ Develop technical documentation.

+ Develop system architecture and system design documentation.

+ Guide system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans.

+ Interact with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts.

+ Have ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility.

+ Communicate with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.



**Additional responsibilities:**



**Levels 1 & 2**



+ Manage system requirements and derived requirements to ensure the delivery of production systems that are compatible with the defined system architecture(s) Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), etc.

+ Contribute to the development of sections of systems engineering documentation such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements specifications, and Interface Control Documents.

+ Assist with the development of system requirements, functional requirements, and allocation of the same to individual hardware, software, facility, and personnel components.

+ Coordinate the resolution of action items from Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews that require cross-discipline coordination.

+ Participate in an Integrated Product Team to design new capabilities based upon evaluation of all necessary development and operational considerations.

+ Allocate real-time process budgets and error budgets to systems and subsystem components.

+ Generate alternative system concepts, physical architectures, and design solutions.

+ Define the methods, processes, and evaluation criteria by which the systems, subsystems and work products are verified against their requirements in a written plan.

+ Develop system design solution that satisfies the system requirements and fulfills the functional analysis.

+ Review and provide input to program and contract work breakdown structure (WBS), work packages and the integrated master plan (IMP).

+ Participate in the development of system engineering documentation, such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements Specifications, and Interface Control Documents.

+ Participate in interface definition, design, and changes to the configuration between affected groups and individuals throughout the life cycle.

+ Derive from the system requirements an understanding of stakeholder needs, functions that may be logically inferred and implied as essential to system effectiveness.

+ Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements that describe in detail the functions that a system component must fulfill, and ensure these requirements are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable.

+ Participate in establishing and gaining approval of the definition of a system or component under development (requirements, designs, interfaces, test procedures, etc.) that provides a common reference point for hardware and software developers.

+ Develop derived requirements for Information Assurance Services (Confidentiality, Integrity, Non repudiation, and Availability); Basic Information Assurance Mechanisms (e.g., Identification, Authentication, Access Control, Accountability); and Security Mechanism Technology (Passwords, cryptography, discretionary access control, mandatory access control, hashing, key management, etc.)

+ Implement comprehensive SOA solutions.

+ Implement operational view, technical standards view, and system and services view for architectures using applicable DoDAF standards.

+ Review and/or approve system engineering documentation to ensure that processes and specifications meet system needs and are accurate, comprehensive, and complete.

+ Capture all interface designs in a common interface control format, and store interface data in a commonly accessible repository.

+ Assess each risk to the program and determine the probability of occurrence and quantified consequence of failure in accordance with an approved risk management plan.

+ In conjunction with system stakeholders, plan the verification efforts of new and unproven designs early in the development life cycle to ensure compliance with established requirements.

+ Prepare time-line analysis diagrams illustrating the flow of time-dependent functions.

+ Establish a process to formally and proactively control and manage changes to requirements, consider impacts prior to commitment to change, gain stakeholder buy-in, eliminate ambiguity, ensure traceability to source requirements, and track and settle open actions.

+ Manage and ensure the technical integrity of the system baseline over time, continually updating it as various changes are imposed on the system during the lifecycle from development through deployment and operations & maintenance.

+ Support the planning and test analysis of the DoD Certification/Accreditation Process (as well as other Government Certification and Accreditation (C&A) processes).

+ Support the development and review of Joint Capability Integration Development System (JCIDS) documents (i.e., Initial Capability Document, Capabilities Description Document, IA Strategy).

+ Provide technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of specific components of complex hardware/software systems to include requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management as well as end-to-end flow analysis.

+ Develop scenarios (threads) and an Operational Concept that describes the interactions between the system, the user, and the environment, that satisfies operational, support, maintenance, and disposal needs.

+ Conduct quantitative analysis in non-functional system performance areas like Reliability, Maintainability, Vulnerability, Survivability, Produceability, etc.).

+ Establish and follow a formal procedure for coordinating system integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfaces.



**Here's what you need:**



+ 7-14 years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.

+ Bachelors degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.

+ Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelors degree.



**Security Clearance:**



+ Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph



Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience.As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, New York City or Washington as set forth below andinformation on benefits offered is here. (https://www.accenture.com/us-en/careers/your-future-rewards-benefits)



**Role Location: Range of Starting Pay for role**



California: $90,700 - $147,100



Colorado: $90,700 - $127,100



New York City: $105,000 - $147,100



Washington: $96,600 - $135,200



**Eligibility Requirements**



US Citizenship required.



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