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Imagine Next!At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.Job Description:\nParsons is seeking a cleared, professional Senior Computer Systems Analyst to lead the analysis of mission requirements, complex data platforms, distributed systems, and enterprise integrations in support of DCDC programs. The Senior Computer Systems Analyst will provide technical leadership in evaluating current and future-state capabilities, developing system architectures and technical recommendations, identifying capability gaps and risks, and translating mission needs into actionable implementation strategies. The analyst will work closely with DCDC customers, engineers, developers, data analysts, project managers, cybersecurity personnel, and other stakeholders to assess system performance, scalability, availability, interoperability, maintainability, and security.\nThis position requires on-site support at the DCDC facility at Ft. Meade, MD.\nWhat You'll Be Doing:\nLead the analysis of functional, operational, mission, and technical requirements for complex systems, platforms, interfaces, and data flows.\n\nLead the evaluation of current-state capabilities and development of future-state system concepts, architectures, roadmaps, and modernization strategies.\n\nAnalyze distributed systems, data platforms, Kubernetes environments, cloud-native applications, and enterprise integrations.\n\nDevelop and present systems-analysis reports, technical assessments, capability assessments, alternatives analyses, and technical recommendations.\n\nAssess system performance, scalability, availability, interoperability, maintainability, resiliency, security, and operational suitability.\n\nDevelop andmaintainsystem architecture views, operational views, system views, interface documentation, data-flow diagrams, technical specifications, and system descriptions.\n\nLead the identification and analysis ofrequirements decomposition,technical risks, capability gaps, system dependencies, integration challenges, assumptions, constraints, and opportunities for improvement.\n\nCoordinate technical activities with software developers, data engineers, systems engineers, cybersecurity personnel, project managers, operations personnel, and government stakeholders.\n\nLead orfacilitatedesign reviews, requirement reviews, technical interchange meetings, architecture reviews, customer demonstrations, operational assessments, and after-action reviews.\n\nConduct technical assessments and audits of existing systems, platforms, interfaces, data flows, and operational processes toidentifyimprovement opportunities.\n\nEvaluate proposed system changes, technical alternatives,and new capabilities for technical feasibility, integration impact, performance, security, operational risk, and alignment with mission requirements.\n\nAnalyze system interfaces and data exchanges toidentifyinteroperability issues, data-quality concerns, integration dependencies, and potential points of failure.\n\nSupport the development of system-level performance measures, availability assessments, capacity analyses, operational metrics, and service-levelobjectives.\n\nDocument technical decisions, risks, dependencies, assumptions, constraints, action items, and recommended courses of action.\n\nProvide technical oversight and guidance to junior and mid-level analysts and engineers.\n\nReview technical products for accuracy, completeness, consistency, traceability, and alignment with customer and program requirements.\n\nDevelop andmaintaintechnical documentation, standard operating procedures, analysis templates, architecture products, and knowledge-transfer materials.\n\nSupport technical planning and execution across development, test, integration, production, and sustainment environments.\n\nServe as a senior technical point of contact for assigned systems, capabilities, or mission areas.\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\nB.S. in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related field.\n\n10+ years of experience in computer systems analysis, systems engineering, platform engineering, data engineering, software engineering, enterprise architecture, or a related discipline.\n\nExperience developingand reviewing technical documentation,system architecture views, interface control documentation, data-flow diagrams, operational concepts, system descriptions, or enterprise integration documentation.\n\nExperience translating mission, operational, and customer needs into technical requirements, system designs, implementation strategies, and measurable acceptance criteria.\n\nExperience leading requirements decomposition, traceability, validation, verification, and change-impact analysis.\n\nExperience evaluating system performance, scalability, availability, interoperability, maintainability, resiliency, security, and operational suitability.\n\nExperience developing alternatives analyses, trade studies, technical roadmaps, capability assessments, modernization plans, or transition strategies.\n\nStrong knowledge of systems-engineering processes, requirements engineering, architecture development, integration, verification and validation, configuration management, and technical baseline management.\n\nAbility to communicate complex technical information, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior technical, programmatic, and government stakeholderswith either written or verbal communication.\n\nDemonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary technical teams and coordinate work across development, test, integration, production, and sustainment environments.\n\nAbility to work independently, exercise sound technical judgment, manage competing priorities, and deliver high-quality products with limited supervision.\n\nAbility to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary, customer-facing team.\n\nActive Secret clearance isrequired.\n\nDesired Qualifications:\nMaster’s degree in computer science,informationtechnology,systemsengineering,computerengineering,dataengineering,cybersecurity, or a related field.\n\nExperience supporting DoD, federal, intelligence-community, or other mission-critical programs.\n\nExperience with AWS, AWS GovCloud, DoD Impact Level 5 or Impact Level 6 environments, or other regulated cloud environments.\n\nExperience assessing or architecting systems in restricted, disconnected, air-gapped, or limited-connectivity environments.\n\nKnowledge of cybersecurity, Zero Trust principles, Security Technical Implementation Guides, container hardening, vulnerability management, secure system design, or cybersecurity risk management.\n\nExperience applying NIST, RMF, DoD cybersecurity controls, FedRAMP, STIG, Authority to Operate, or comparable government security frameworks.\n\nExperience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, orSAFedevelopment methodologies.\n\nExperience working inDevSecOps, continuous integration and continuous delivery, platform engineering, or secure software-development environments.\n\nProject Management Professional, Security+, Certified Information Systems Security Professional, or comparable professional certification.\n\nExperience with enterprise architecture frameworks, architecture modeling, system-of-systems analysis, or standards-based architecture documentation.\n\nExperience using requirements-management, architecture, modeling, data-analysis, issue-tracking, or technical-documentation tools.\n\nExperience with REST APIs, databases, data warehouses, data lakes, event-driven architectures, microservices, Linux, or cloud-native applications.\n\n Security Clearance Requirement:\nAn active Secret security clearance is required for this position.This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.Salary Range: $112,200.00 - $196,400.00We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest-APPLY TODAY!Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. 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