Senior System Engineer at Synergy ECP
Columbia
$150,000–$250,000from the description
Aug 10, 2026
Columbia
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This Senior Systems Engineer role at a defense/intelligence contractor supports enterprise-scale data transport and messaging infrastructure serving mission-critical applications. Day-to-day work spans development, deployment, and sustainment of high-availability messaging services, along with requirements gathering and management in a SIGINT/intelligence community environment. The role requires direct customer engagement and suits a seasoned systems engineer with deep Linux experience and a TS/SCI polygraph clearance.
Senior level · 14+ years · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $111,377 (middle half $86,511–$164,827). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 12, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The experience requirement is stated as '14 years with a degree or 19 years without a degree'; the overall years minimum is set to 14 (the lower bound when a degree is held). No specific degree is hard-required — the posting accepts equivalent experience — so the degree requirement is None.
Redmine and JIRA are listed together as examples of requirements tracking tools under the Required Qualifications section. They are treated as interchangeable alternatives for the same requirement rather than two separate hard gates.
Messaging technologies (JMS, ActiveMQ, TIBCO, Artemis, Kafka) appear only under Desired Qualifications and are therefore preferred.
The TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance is an explicit hard gate. U.S. Citizenship is also required.
The IAM Level 2 (CWIP) certification requirement is a compliance/workforce credential, not a named technology tool, so it is not emitted as a skill.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role blends systems engineering, requirements management, and infrastructure operations. 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) was chosen over 15-1244 because requirements gathering, management, and customer engagement are central to the described work, but 15-1244 is a plausible alternative given the Linux/infrastructure focus.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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