Chief Solution Architect/PLM Strategist

About the role

Sabel Systems designs and delivers digital engineering ecosystems for DoD programs, enabling teams to connect data, systems, and personnel within secure, scalable environments. Our solutions empower programs to make faster decisions, close sustainment gaps, and meet the digital acquisition requirements. Rather than simply proposing transformation, we implement and operate it at scale. Our method is clear: we orchestrate existing tools into a governing system of record, ensuring government ownership of infrastructure and traceable decisions. There’s no vendor lock, no proprietary baselines, and no need for ATO rebuilds during transitions. Sabel Systems is redefining modern defense acquisition.

If you seek to solve complex challenges at scale and want your work to directly accelerate military capability while reshaping the DoD’s approach to digital engineering, this is the place for you.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the AF-PLM enterprise architecture while ensuring alignment with the Air Force Data Strategy.
• Define and drive a comprehensive Air Force level PLM strategy that enables digital thread capabilities, an authoritative source of truth (ASOT), and full lifecycle data management across Air Force systems and platforms.
• Guide integration strategies that connect PLM solutions with enterprise systems while ensuring compliance with DoD open system architecture principles.
• Translate operational and acquisition needs into PLM system capabilities that support readiness, cost reduction, and modernization objectives. Align the PLM roadmap with Air Force priorities and AFMC / SAF-AQ initiatives.
• Serve as a principal advisor to senior stakeholders across SAF-AQ, AFLCMC, AFNWC, AFSC, and industry partners. Lead cross-functional collaboration across engineering, acquisition, and sustainment communities.
• Evaluate emerging technologies such as AI/ML, semantic data models, and digital twin frameworks for potential incorporation into the PLM ecosystem. Represent AF-PLM at industry, academic, and DoD forums.
• Serve as the technical and strategic leader responsible for designing, aligning, and delivering the architectural vision of the AF-PLM enterprise.
• Drive alignment with DoD digital engineering and data-centric acquisition priorities while advancing scalable, interoperable PLM solutions across Air Force acquisition, sustainment, and operational communities.