Onsite in Dallas Metro Area
Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI with CI poly or willing to take a poly

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer – Product Owner, to join our engineering team. In this role you will be responsible for the continued development of an advanced, leading-edge, software system providing excellent technical guidance and team communication.
As the Senior Systems Engineer – Product Owner (SE – PO) you will:

• Function in a technical role in a SAFe Agile development environment and effectively work and communicate with all levels of Program Leadership, Customers, and Engineers on the Program team. 
• Collaborate with the systems engineering and subcontractor teams to design and develop software.
• Assist in providing technical direction and clarification to subcontractors during the entire software development lifecycle; from conceptualization and design to development, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Perform solution decomposition from customer epics, to capabilities, to features, to stories according to SAFe practices.
• Apply systems engineering expertise in particular to feature designs to reduce overall risk to the software development lifecycle.
• Engage with customer user representatives to gather user needs and incorporate into the feature designs.
• Engage with SMEs from other disciplines to fully understand the solution and document the designs.

Qualifications You Must Have:
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years experience
• "Experience working in an Agile development team environment with multi-discipline engineers and stake holders, developing system solutions to meet customer requirements
• Experience using Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.), and evaluation of COTS
• Experienced with requirements decomposition and experience with CONOPS development
• Solution oriented, strong communication skills, excellent problem-solving and time management skills
• Extensive systems engineering experience, including support to development of large software systems, as Technical Lead or with subject matter expert experience; and extensive engineering experience working in the full software development lifecycle using Agile methodology that ensures high quality software is built and released to end-users quickly and within cost and schedule parameters