About Farfield Systems, Inc

At Farfield we are committed to delivering trusted expertise to our government clients.  As we grow, our focus is on increasing opportunities for you to grow with us while still delivering the same excellence customers have grown to expect from us. We continually evaluate our environment to provide a place where your career is packed with opportunities to grow and you have the ability to demonstrate your passion to our customers.  We focus on building a Team where each employee is a valued member.  Farfield provides support to multiple agencies across the United States Government in many locations. That means many different opportunities to follow your career path without changing companies every few years.

 "Employee driven...customer focused."  We build, operate and secure networks and infrastructure.

* Requires a Top Secret/SCI clearance with a polygraph and U.S. Citizenship*

• Develop comprehensive SOA solutions

• Develop operational view, technical standards view, and system and services view for architectures using applicable DoDAF standards

• Conduct and/or approve end-to-end system trade analyses to optimize system operations over its life-cycle through the proper balance of non-functional system performance areas

• Use validated models, simulations, and prototyping to mitigate risk and reduce cost of system development

• Ensure effective, periodic review and control of the evolving configuration of a system, both hardware and software components and associated documentation, during the life of the system

• Serve as a member of the CCB

• Develop system design alternatives that consider life cycle cost, reuse, complexity, risk, system expansion, and growth

• Develop alternative courses of action, workarounds, and fallback positions with a recommended course of action for each risk, and monitor and re-evaluate risks at appropriate milestones. Monitors risks using earned value management (EVM) data

• Provide technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration , and testing of all 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

• Improve standard integration strategies based upon rationale for previous decisions that resulted in improved integration performance

• Fully define interfaces in terms of origination, destination, stimulus, and data characteristics for software; and electrical and mechanical characteristics for hardware

• As a participant within an Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) effort, recommend a preferred solution based on selection criteria adjusted for reasonableness and validity of assumptions, technology limitations, environmental impact, and life-cycle costs

• Maintain knowledge of current and evolving agency, national, and international standards applicable to the system development of interest.

• Apply and enforce use of suitable standards to ensure consistency and interoperability of developer hardware and software

Basic Qualifications: 

• Twenty (20) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Demonstrated experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts is required.

• Bachelor's 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 bachelor's degree.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts is required

• Experience in ForcePoint High Speed Guard, Radiant Mercury, and/or other Cross Domain Solutions (CDS) Technologies

   

   

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