Chief Engineer
Requirements
Serve as the overall technical authority for the contract or program, responsible for the integrity, feasibility, and quality of all engineering solutions.
Ensure all technical deliverables meet contractual requirements, service level agreements (SLAs), performance objectives, and applicable compliance standards.
Lead technical decision-making for scope changes, tradeoffs, risk mitigation, and issue resolution throughout the program lifecycle.
Ensure tracking and transparency of technical work, schedules, reviews, and meetings.
Identify opportunities for cross-program reuse and standardization, and feed lessons learned back into enterprise engineering practices.
Partner with enterprise engineering, security, DevOps, and architecture teams to ensure program solutions scale beyond a single contract.
Own technical risk management for the program, including architectural, security, performance, and integration risks.
Ensure engineering processes support high reliability, security, scalability, and maintainability.
Provide escalation and resolution for complex technical issues impacting cost, schedule, or mission success.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study.
10+ years of relevant professional experience required.
Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- 10+ years of progressive engineering experience, including senior technical leadership on large, complex programs.
- Proven experience leading architecture development and maintenance across software, cloud, infrastructure, data, and security domains.
- Strong background in government or regulated environment programs, including compliance and contract execution.
- Experience interfacing with both customer and contractor teams to manage deliverables and ensure alignment with both strategic roadmaps and dynamic program needs.
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and collaborate across teams to drive outcomes.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to brief senior/executive stakeholders.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with strong attention to detail.
- Ability to obtain and maintain required security clearance, if applicable.