Senior Data or Systems Engineer

Metasys Technologies is seeking a Senior Data or Systems Engineer to support a large government contractor on a long-term federal healthcare technology program. This role will focus on improving the connection between healthcare data and operational readiness visibility, while providing technical support and systems analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary technical lead supporting the government contractor’s program team
• Provide technical product support, systems analysis, data architecture support, and value engineering recommendations
• Review and analyze healthcare-readiness system designs for function, reliability, quality, interoperability, and lifecycle cost effectiveness
• Support data dependency mapping, data flow analysis, and architecture mapping across systems, stakeholders, and readiness data sources
• Partner with business analysts, project control analysts, stakeholder managers, and government SMEs to translate mission needs into technical requirements
• Support development and maintenance of system requirements specifications, product backlogs, requirements traceability matrices, data dependency registers, data gap analyses, data sharing trackers, and architecture maps
• Work within Agile sprint cycles to support requirements refinement, sprint planning, backlog grooming, demonstrations, retrospectives, and acceptance criteria
• Support alignment between the value team, development teams, data services, cybersecurity, testing, product support, and government stakeholders
• Help identify risks, technical dependencies, data gaps, decision points, and remediation actions
• Support monthly program management reviews and quarterly executive briefings with technical input, status updates, and decision support
• Ensure technical artifacts are maintained in government-approved tools such as JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, or equivalent platforms
• Support compliance with applicable data governance, privacy, controlled unclassified information, and federal healthcare data requirements

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Architecture, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field
• 8+ years of relevant technical experience in systems engineering, data engineering, data architecture, technical program support, health IT, or federal technology programs
• Familiarity with data architecture and/or government healthcare infrastructure
• Familiarity with cloud architecture, preferably in a federal, defense, healthcare, or regulated environment
• Minimum 4 years of experience working with Agile requirements
• Experience with requirements management tools such as JIRA, IBM Jazz, Rational tools, Confluence, or similar platforms
• Strong technical problem-solving ability
• Ability to perform cost-benefit analysis, value analysis, value methodology, or technical trade-off analysis
• Experience producing or supporting technical artifacts such as system requirements, product backlogs, requirements traceability matrices, data flow diagrams, architecture maps, data dependency registers, or technical decision logs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to brief technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Federal program experience
• Healthcare IT or defense health exposure
• Agile delivery experience
• Strong documentation discipline
• Experience working with government stakeholders
• Comfort with formal deliverables, review cycles, approvals, and auditability
• Ability to operate in structured tools such as JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or similar platforms
• Experience supporting government health IT programs (ideal)
• Familiarity with DoD acquisition frameworks or artifacts such as JCIDS, Adaptive Acquisition Framework, CDD, CNS, or related acquisition documentation
• Experience with electronic health records, medical readiness, operational medicine, clinical decision support, healthcare data interoperability, or readiness data platforms
• Understanding of NIST 800-171, HIPAA, Privacy Act, CUI handling, cybersecurity coordination, or federal data governance
• Experience supporting AI-enabled, prototype, modernization, or rapid application development programs
• Experience working as part of an embedded program management or Value Team supporting government leadership