Momentum Engineering, Inc. fosters an employee-centric culture. Our strength lies in our people. With a high percentage of employees holding advanced degrees in engineering, computer science, and related disciplines, we bring deep technical expertise to every mission. Our team includes professionals with security clearances and full-scope polygraphs, ensuring trusted, secure support for the most sensitive national security initiatives. Additionally, our workforce is equipped with industry-leading certifications, demonstrating a commitment to continuous learning and excellence. Most importantly, our exceptional employee retention rate reflects a culture of professional growth, mission focus, and dedication—ensuring long-term stability and expertise for our customers’ critical needs.
Job Summary
- Seeking a Systems Engineer to support a Data Ingest Team responsible for developing and maintaining web-based applications that automate data management for Intelligence Community (IC) data custodians
- This role focuses on enabling compliant data movement across mission systems by supporting tools that capture required information, approvals, and workflows to standardize data sharing, reuse, and integration with downstream platforms
- The engineer will contribute to system design, data flow integration, and operational support, with preferred experience in smart data systems, data entitlements, and technologies such as Java and Splunk
Primary Responsibilities
- Outline, develop and implement data engineering solutions.
- Utilize a working knowledge of NiFi, be comfortable working in a Linux environment, interact with data ontologies (schemas), structured data types (XML, CSV, JSON), have database experience (MySQL/NoSQL) and analytic query experience with a platform
- Work with numerous concurrent IC-provided data sets to identify, map and model data transformation routines supporting ingestion into the customer's corporate repositories and be able to document new and existing data flows supporting data routing implementations
Required Qualifications
- Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
- Twenty (20) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity 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.
- Demonstrated experience supporting Systems Engineering efforts is required
- Able to implement comprehensive SOA solutions
- Able to 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
- Able to 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
- Able to develop system design alternatives that consider life cycle cost, reuse, complexity, risk, system expansion, and growth
- Able to maintain knowledge of current and evolving agency, national, and international standards applicable to the system development of interest
- Able to recommend a preferred solution based on selection criteria
- Able to provide technical direction for the full systems engineering life cycle
- Able to fully define interfaces in terms of origination, destination, stimulus, and data characteristics for software
Desired Qualifications
- Working knowledge of smart data systems and entitlements
- Experience with JAVA and Splunk is highly desired
- Experience with current and evolving agency dataflow and reporting solutions
- Experience in developing system performance, availability, scalability, manageability, and security requirements for mid-to-large scale systems
- Experience in leading agile development models
- Experience integrating COTS and GOTS products from multiple vendors
- Experience developing and deploying storage within clustered or cloud environments
- Experience planning and integrating secure compliant solutions based on legal, policy, and compliance directives
Exempt hourly position. 11 paid holidays, minimum of 3 weeks PTO, company sponsored group medical plan, company paid dental, vision, life insurance, and STD/LTD plans. Salary is dependent upon the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
- Twenty years experience as a Systems Engineer
- Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- Demonstrated experience supporting Systems Engineering efforts
- Able to implement comprehensive SOA solutions
- Able to conduct end-to-end system trade analyses
- Able to maintain knowledge of relevant standards
What We Do
Momentum Engineering understands that our customer's unique missions require innovative software solutions and data-driven engineering methodologies. These approaches leverage DevOps principles and cloud-based automation ensuring that applications and systems can be characterized and reliably measured. Our specialists, working as trusted partners to our customers, have been developing, integrating and maintaining data-centric solutions since our founding in February 2015. Momentum Engineering provides highly-skilled System Engineers, Software Engineers, and formally trained Department of Defense Test and Evaluation Subject Matter Experts to our customers to help them move their missions forward.
