Systems Engineering Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton•McLean, VA

5d•$99,000 - $225,000•Remote

About The Position

The Opportunity: Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact in national security? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer focused engineering solution. As a leader in systems engineering, we’re looking for you to solve complex challenges and shape the Department of Defense's Golden Dome for America mission by leading the Systems Engineering, Integration and Test team. Your customer will trust you to not only design and develop this system, but also evolve them with advanced technology solutions. Share your expertise through leadership and mentoring, while broadening your skillset into areas including Command and Control, and Space System Missile Defense. Grow your skills by merging Systems Engineering and Modeling & Simulation to create true Digital Twins to be utilized across the system lifecycle. Join our team and create the future of Missile Defense for the DoD. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in systems engineering and product development
Experience leading technical strategies, technology roadmaps, and engineer skill‑development plans across at least two programs exceeding $5M each
Experience developing Systems Engineering Plans (SEPs), identifying cost, schedule, and performance risks, and driving mitigation strategies
Experience leading cross‑functional technical teams and collaborating closely with hardware, software, test, cybersecurity, and customer stakeholders
Experience in full lifecycle systems engineering, including requirements development, architecture, design, integration, and V&V
Experience defining architecture vision and approach for complex, multi‑functional or multi‑product systems that conform to and utilize reference architectures, executable architectures, and modeling complex systems and aligning models with detailed design
Experience facilitating, conducting, and organizing technical reviews, including briefing leadership and managing action‑item closure
Ability to build traceability across requirements, architecture, design, and test artifacts using model‑based methodologies
Secret clearance
Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, Technology, and Mathematics (STEM)

Nice To Haves

Experience with Digital Engineering toolsets, including IBM DOORS NextGen, Dassault MagicDraw family of products, Windchill or TeamCenter, Syndeia, and Atlassian Jira or similar
Experience in applying MBSE methodologies to drive requirement flow‑down, architecture modeling, and design integration
Experience with Department of War Architecture Framework (DAF) or Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)
Knowledge of DoD 5000.02 acquisition lifecycle and associated systems engineering artifacts and expectations
Knowledge of the Agile development frameworks, toolsets, and roles
Ability to lead, coach, and guide engineering teams to develop trusted technical solutions
Ability to effectively engage with SMEs and end users to support hardware and software solution development
INCOSE ASEP or CSEP certification or similar systems engineering or architecture accreditation
Top Secret clearance
Master’s degree in STEM field

Responsibilities

Leading the Systems Engineering, Integration and Test team.
Solving complex challenges and shaping the Department of Defense's Golden Dome for America mission.
Designing and developing systems.
Evolving systems with advanced technology solutions.
Sharing expertise through leadership and mentoring.
Broadening skillset into areas including Command and Control, and Space System Missile Defense.
Merging Systems Engineering and Modeling & Simulation to create true Digital Twins.
Developing technical strategies, technology roadmaps, and engineer skill-development plans.
Developing Systems Engineering Plans (SEPs).
Identifying cost, schedule, and performance risks, and driving mitigation strategies.
Leading cross-functional technical teams and collaborating closely with hardware, software, test, cybersecurity, and customer stakeholders.
Defining architecture vision and approach for complex, multi-functional or multi-product systems.
Facilitating, conducting, and organizing technical reviews, including briefing leadership and managing action-item closure.
Building traceability across requirements, architecture, design, and test artifacts using model-based methodologies.
Leading, coaching, and guiding engineering teams to develop trusted technical solutions.
Effectively engaging with SMEs and end users to support hardware and software solution development.