Lead Systems Engineer - Product Owner

About the role

This position supports government programs and requires the ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust investigation. It is currently unfunded and is anticipated to involve the development of next-generation flight service and air traffic systems, aligning with the FAA’s initiative to modernize legacy flight service capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Review FAA requirement documents, advisory circulars, and applicable regulations to extract intent, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
• Manage the backlog for one or more Agile teams, prioritizing features based on stakeholder needs.
• Engage with customer stakeholders to identify use cases with an emphasis on completeness, testability, alignment with operational workflows, and readiness for validation trials.
• Decompose high-level regulatory requirements into specific, testable capability statements (Agile features) with clear acceptance criteria mapped to FAA compliance outcomes.
• Systematically capture and communicate design decisions, performance trade-offs, regulatory compliance rationales, and risk assessments with each release.
• Prepare and review technical documentation, including use cases, user interface specifications, and requirements traceability.
• Participate in structured reviews and inspections.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field with 4-8 years of relevant experience or a Master’s degree with 2-6 years of experience.
• Experience and familiarity with Agile methodology, principles, and tools.
• Familiarity with the role of the Agile Product Owner, including owning and prioritizing the product backlog, defining complete product backlog items (user stories), making timely decisions on scope, and acceptance of work.
• Strong understanding of disciplined engineering processes, including attention to detail.
• Past practical exposure to writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining software or scripts.
• Clear and effective verbal and written communication.
• Experience with the design of cloud-based systems.
• Ability to obtain SF-85 Public Trust suitability determination.
• US Citizenship preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience with Java, Python, React, and scripting languages.
• Knowledge of AI-assisted development workflows and tools (i.e. Claude Code, Codex, etc.).
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Practical knowledge of FAA/DoD systems, technical policies, standards and orders.
• Experience with leveraging requirement-management tools (CAMEO, DOORS, Jama, Jira with traceability plugins, etc.) and documentation platforms that support linking, reviews, and exportable RTMs.
• Practical knowledge of air traffic control systems, general aviation, and/or flight services.

Skills

• Experience with Agile methodology and tools.
• Strong understanding of Agile Product Owner roles and responsibilities.
• Technical expertise in cloud-based systems design.
• Experience with requirement management tools and documentation platforms.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Practical knowledge of FAA/DoD systems and technical policies.
• Experience with AI-assisted development workflows.
• Experience with Java, Python, React, and scripting languages.
• Experience with air traffic control systems, general aviation, and/or flight services.

Benefits

The position offers competitive compensation, health and wellness programs, income protection, paid leave, and retirement benefits. For more details, visit www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

Pay

The pay range for this job level is $87,100.00 - $157,450.00. For more details, visit www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

Schedule

The schedule for this position is not specified, but it is expected to be flexible to accommodate the needs of the project and the customer.