Risk Engineer & Risk Manager

Booz Allen Hamilton•El Segundo, CA

21h•$69,400 - $158,000

About The Position

As a Risk Engineer & Risk Manager, you will support the client in identifying, assessing, managing, and mitigating enterprise and programmatic risks that affect space mission capabilities, systems integration, and operational execution. You will work across government, contractor, engineering, acquisition, and mission stakeholder organizations to establish risk management processes, evaluate cross-program dependencies, and provide leadership with actionable information for enterprise-level decisions. You will apply Department of War (DoW) risk management principles and industry best practices to address technical, operational, programmatic, schedule, cost, resource, and integration risks. You will develop and maintain risk management frameworks, assessment methodologies, mitigation plans, executive-level reporting, and data-driven dashboards to show risk exposure, mitigation effectiveness, and emerging mission challenges. You will collaborate with mission engineering teams, program offices, systems engineers, and enterprise integration stakeholders to assess risks affecting mission threads, system-of-systems architectures, capability delivery, and end-to-end kill-chain closure. Your work will help leadership prioritize resources, resolve organizational and technical dependencies, and drive mitigation activities toward measurable outcomes.

Requirements

At least 8 years of experience in risk management, program management, systems engineering, defense acquisition, or mission integration.
At least 5 years of experience supporting DoW, Department of the Air Force (DAF), U.S. Space Force (USSF), or a national security organization.
Experience developing, implementing, and managing risk management frameworks, processes, methodologies, and reporting structures.
Experience identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and mitigating technical, operational, programmatic, cost, schedule, resource, and integration risks.
Experience developing and maintaining risk registers, assessment matrices, mitigation plans, performance metrics, and executive-level risk reporting.
Experience facilitating risk reviews, coordinating mitigation activities, and engaging senior government and contractor stakeholders.
Knowledge of DoW Risk, Issue, and Opportunity (RIO) management principles.
Ability to evaluate cross-program dependencies, technical interfaces, capability gaps, and integration challenges that may affect enterprise mission outcomes.
TS/SCI clearance.
Bachelor's degree.

Nice To Haves

Experience directly supporting SSC, SSIO, USSF, Space Force Program Executive Offices, or other national security space organizations.
Experience with enterprise risk management across multiple programs, portfolios, mission areas, or acquisition organizations.
Experience with system-of-systems engineering, mission engineering, integrated mission threads, and end-to-end kill-chain analysis.
Experience identifying and managing risks associated with system architectures, technical interfaces, data integration, interoperability, and enterprise capability dependencies.
Experience developing automated risk dashboards, enterprise reporting tools, and data-driven decision-support products using Microsoft Power BI, SharePoint, Jira, or Confluence.
Experience with DoD acquisition processes, program execution, requirements development, resource planning, and capability portfolio management.
Experience with Palantir Foundry, Maven, Warp Core, KRONOS, or other enterprise data integration and analytics platforms.
Experience supporting risk management boards, integrated product teams (IPTs), program reviews, executive governance forums, and senior leadership decision-making.
Experience identifying systemic organizational risks, resource constraints, funding shortfalls, staffing gaps, and competing mission priorities.
Knowledge of space mission operations, space command and control (C2), space domain awareness, space control, and ground-to-space system integration.
Master's degree in Systems Engineering, Engineering Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
PMP, PMI-RMP, or equivalent risk management certification, or completion of professional training in systems engineering, program management, DoD acquisition, or enterprise risk management.

Responsibilities

Identify, assess, manage, prioritize, and mitigate technical, operational, programmatic, schedule, cost, resource, and integration risks.
Establish and maintain risk management processes, frameworks, assessment methodologies, and reporting structures.
Develop and maintain risk registers, assessment matrices, mitigation plans, performance metrics, executive-level reports, and data-driven dashboards.
Evaluate cross-program dependencies, technical interfaces, capability gaps, integration challenges, and risks to enterprise mission outcomes.
Facilitate risk reviews, coordinate mitigation activities, and engage senior government and contractor stakeholders.
Collaborate with mission engineering teams, program offices, systems engineers, and enterprise integration stakeholders to assess risks affecting mission threads, system-of-systems architectures, capability delivery, and kill-chain closure.
Provide leadership with actionable information to support enterprise decisions, resource prioritization, and resolution of organizational and technical dependencies.