Are you interested in working in a dynamic environment that offers opportunities for professional growth and new responsibilities by helping clients drive alignment with their business, advising through critical and complex issues, while allowing you to develop personally and professionally? Then consider a career at NS2 Mission. We have grown into an industry leading provider of technology services to the IC, DoD, and U.S. Government.

Job Description:

NS2 Mission is seeking a project Systems Engineer to support an applications development team. The candidate will track new requirements and decompose them into actionable tasks for development team members. The SE will work with the customer and team to convert mission needs into user stories (in Jira) with well-defined acceptance criteria and should understand the technical dependencies between user stories to facilitate the proper sequencing for scheduling of work in development sprints. The SE will facilitate backlog prioritization and sprint planning sessions and daily scrums. The SE may be asked to brief or support briefings to management and mission stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience using Jira and Confluence for managing project requirements and activities, and maintaining project documentation
• Experience working with Agile development teams (running daily scrum, sprint planning, and backlog grooming)
• Experience working with customers to prioritize needs across a large set of stakeholders
• Experience briefing senior management on high priority work items
• Ability to track and manage customer needs with an enterprise work/ requirements tracking tool
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Conduct application and tools demonstrations/ TEMs
• Coordinate deployment, generate change requests, and Release Definitions

Desired Qualifications:

• Certified Scrum Master certification highly desired
• Amazon certifications
• Knowledge of the data lifecycle and data management best practices

Position Clearance Requirement:

TS/SCI with Polygraph

Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain or maintain a U.S security clearance which requires U.S citizenship.

NS2 Mission is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. NS2 Mission is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws.

By submitting your resume for this position, you understand and agree that NS2 Mission may share your resume, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide in your application, with its affiliated companies for the purpose of considering you for other available positions.

NS2 Mission maintains a drug-free workplace and may perform pre-employment substance abuse testing, where required by contract and permitted by law.