Dashboard Requirements Engineer

Secure our Nation, Ignite your Future

ManTech holds the distinct honor of being named a “Top 100 Global Technology Company” by Thomson Reuters. ManTech leadership works to continue this high level of industry recognition by affording our employees opportunities to break through barriers. We reinvest in our employees through rich educational opportunities such as 100% paid tuition for qualifying Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, extensive training and certification programs enabling our employees to obtain industry recognized skills sets and certifications, as well as Communities of Practice where employees can engage and exchange knowledge  as well as a diverse and in-depth range of instruction and resources needed for personal and professional development through our very own ManTech University. In addition to those amazing benefits, ManTech also has a fully dedicated Career Mobility team to provide you with guidance and assistance to continue to grow your career with ManTech.  

Become an integral part of a diverse team while working at an Industry Leading Organization, where our employees come first.  At ManTech International Corporation, you’ll help protect our national security while working on innovative projects that offer opportunities for advancement. 

Currently, we are seeking a motivated, career and team-oriented Dashboard requirements engineer in support of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Continuous Diagnostic & Mitigation (CDM) Data Services Program. The CDM Data Services Program is a critical component of CISA’s national effort to ensure the defense and resilience of cyberspace.   

The CDM Data Services Program mission is to provide a standardized platform to collect, transform, and integrate cybersecurity data from relevant authoritative data sources into a coherent data, delivering actionable information into Agency and Federal Dashboards to identify risk areas in support of mitigation as well as to facilitate coordinated agency and national response to cyber-threats.   

This is a remote position where the candidate can work from any location within the United States provided, they are able to work on an eastern time zone schedule.

Our Architecture and Engineering team provides technical enterprise to design, implement, and maintain a multi-cloud, multi-tenant managed service offering including defining and implementing the build, deployment and monitoring standards. This team delivers end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management in a cloud environment by building and configuring delivery environments supporting CD/CI tools using an Agile delivery methodology. In addition, the team works closely with the development team to create an automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) system. 

The Dashboard Requirements Engineer is responsible for taking contractual obligations as well as customer desires and translating them into technical requirements.

The successful candidate will bring a consultative approach to requirements to improve the value of the dashboard systems. This position is also a thought leader in the practice of Big Data in solving our clients’ cyber security problems, coupled with demonstrated experience translating customer desires into technical requirements for dashboard solutions by providing a new approach to the team, presenting white papers and other solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Work with internal and external stakeholders to examine contractual requirements and decompose dashboard technical requirements to display cybersecurity posture information as part of the Dashboard Agile Release Train (ART)
• Understand data sources of cybersecurity tools such as vulnerability (CVE) scanners, software scanners (CPE), network host discovery scanners, and other tools in order to define requirements which drive Kibana dashboard visualizations of this data.
• Work with customers to understand their needs and desires for the dashboard system and translate that into functional and non-functional requirements.
• Work with the data architect to decompose requirements to the level of creating dashboard data targets based on the logical data model (LDM)
• Analyze, decompose, and document all requirements for complex systems in order to satisfy contractual requirements and customer needs.
• Act as the interface between government customers and dashboard engineers implementing the requirements as features, stories, and non-functional requirements of the dashboard system.
• Utilize communication skills to gather needs from non-technical audiences and translate those needs into highly technical requirements which the dashboard engineers can implement.
• Take high level requirements and break them down into the appropriate level of technical detail for dashboard engineers to implement.
• Utilize tools such as JIRA and Microsoft Excel to document and track requirements in order to maintain trackability through the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) concepts of Epics, capabilities, features, stories, and non-functional requirements.
• Brief internal and external stakeholders on dashboard requirements, their decomposition, and origins
• Ability to prioritize the implementation of requirements based on the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) concepts.
• Work with project managers to ensure requirements are being addressed in product design and implementation.
• Employ problem solving skills to take a customer problem and create requirements that will drive a solution.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or similar field
• At least 5 years of relevant experience
• At least 2 years of working with data platforms and systems (Elastic, Splunk, Azure Data Factory, Apache Spark, Snowflake, Databricks, SQL databases, etc.)
• Understanding of Elasticsearch Kibana based dashboard systems and visualizations.
• Demonstrated ability to translate non-technical needs and desires into technical requirements.
• Knowledge of big data platforms and formats (elasticsearch , JSON, data lakes, etc.)
• Understanding of data transformation and normalization
• Possess excellent logical problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, to be able to work with government customers and internal stakeholders in a collaborative and consultative fashion.
• Log, track, and modify tickets in a ticketing system such as JIRA.
• Expertise in the Microsoft Office / Google Documents suite of software with an emphasis on spreadsheet applications
• Ability to independently perform research on industry standards, regulatory requirements, and cutting-edge technological trends.
• Experience working with government contracting requirements documentation as well as customer derived feature requests.

Preferred Certifications

• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Certification

Security/Clearance Requirements

• Must be a US citizen and pass a background investigation.
• Able to obtain and maintain a DHS Suitability/Entry on Duty (EOD)

Physical Requirements: 

• Must be able to be in a stationary position more than 50% of the time 
• Must be able to communicate, converse, and exchange information with peers and senior personnel 
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a computer 
• The person in this position frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations 
• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.

For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ManTech may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.