DESCRIPTION : The Systems Engineer identifies system integrity issues and solutions for the full system life cycle from concept to disposal. Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Ensures designs are compatible with the architecture and allocates requirements to segments. Responsible for analyzing science, engineering, business, and all other data processing problems for application to electronic data processing systems. Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: May analyze or recommend commercially available software. May supervise computer programmers. Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Provides staff and users with assistance solving computer related problems, such as malfunctions and program problems. Tests, maintains, and monitors computer programs and systems, including coordinating the installation of computer programs and systems. Use object-oriented programming languages, as well as client/server applications development processes and multimedia and Internet technology. Confers with clients regarding the nature of the information processing or computation needs a computer program is to address. Coordinates and links the computer systems within an organization to increase compatibility and so information can be shared. Consults with management to ensure agreement on system principles. Expand or modify system to serve new purposes or improve workflow. Designs software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain analyses and manages their implementation. Manages software development and support using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, other accepted design techniques and Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools. Estimates software development costs and schedule. Reviews existing programs and assist in making refinements, reducing operating time, and improve current techniques. Supervise software configuration management. Applies the concept of operations set of disciplines for the planning, analysis, design and construction of information systems across a major sector of the organization. Develops analytical and computational techniques and methodology for problem solutions. Provides technical guidance in software engineering techniques and automated support tools. Analyzes functional business applications and design specifications for functional activities. Develops block diagrams and logic flow charts. Translate detailed design into computer software. Tests, debugs, and refines the computer software to produce the required product. Prepares required documentation, including both program-level and user-level documentation. Enhances software to reduce operating time or improve efficiency. Provides technical direction to programmers to ensure program deadlines are met. Applies business process improvement practices to re-engineer methodologies and principles and business process modernization projects. Applies, as appropriate, activity and data modeling, transaction flow analysis, internal control and risk analysis and modern business methods and performance measurement techniques. Assists in establishing standards for information systems procedures. Develops and applies organization-wide information models for use in designing and building integrated, shared software and database management systems. Constructs sound, logical business improvement opportunities consistent with the CIM guiding principles, cost savings, and open system architecture objectives. QVine Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer—M/F/D/V