Technical Manager, Systems Engineering

L3Harris • Rockwall, TX

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Technical Manager, Systems Engineering, provides technical and organizational leadership for the development, integration and delivery of complex defense and aerospace systems. This role includes leadership of a diverse team of systems and field engineers, who drive the design, implementation, and deployment activities across multiple engineering programs. This hybrid management / practitioner role also includes practice as an experienced Systems Engineer responsible for managing teams supporting mission-critical programs while ensuring alignment with customer needs, contractual obligations, and organizational objectives. The ideal candidate brings strong people leadership, deep systems thinking, and demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary engineering efforts in a highly regulated aerospace and defense environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 12 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.
• 9+ years of progressive engineering experience, including significant systems engineering experience in defense, aerospace, avionics, mission systems, C4ISR, weapons, space, radar, communications, or other complex regulated environments.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing technical teams, engineering organizations, or major engineering work scopes.
• Ability to obtain and a secret security clearance

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Management, or a related discipline.
• Active security clearance.
• Familiarity with model-based systems engineering tools and methods.
• Demonstrated success leading teams through complex integration, test, and fielding activities.
• Experience supporting competitive captures, proposal strategy, technical solution development, and customer briefings.
• Understanding of cybersecurity, system safety, reliability, maintainability, and human systems integration considerations in defense systems.
• Certification in Scaled Agile or similar development methodologies
• Ability to balance strategic technical leadership with day-to-day execution in a fast-paced, high-consequence environment.
• Demonstrated experience applying systems engineering processes across the full lifecycle of complex aerospace or defense systems.
• Experience leading cross-functional engineering teams in a matrixed program environment.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively with customers, program leadership, and executive stakeholders.
• Familiarity with classified or export-controlled environments and the ability to work within those constraints.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of systems engineers supporting defense and aerospace programs, platforms, or technology initiatives.
• Ensure technical execution aligns with customer requirements, program cost and schedule constraints, mission performance objectives, and contract deliverables.
• Support major program reviews and customer reviews, including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, PRR, and related milestone events.
• Collaborate with program management, chief engineers, software, hardware, test, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and field support teams to ensure integrated program execution.
• Manage staffing, workload planning, performance management, employee development, and succession planning within the systems engineering organization.
• Support proposal efforts, technical volume development, basis of estimate preparation, technology roadmaps, and capture activities for new business opportunities.
• Identify and mitigate technical, programmatic, and integration risks across complex system-of-systems environments.
• Promote continuous improvement in systems engineering processes, digital engineering practices, MBSE adoption, and technical rigor.
• Serve as a key interface to customers, suppliers, subcontractors, and senior leadership on program status, technical issues, and strategic engineering matters.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior