Systems Engineering Lead

About the Role

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, 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 design, develop, and evolve systems 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical strategies, technology roadmaps, and engineer skill-development plans across programs exceeding $5M each.
• Develop Systems Engineering Plans (SEPs), identify cost, schedule, and performance risks, and drive mitigation strategies.
• Lead cross-functional technical teams and collaborate closely with hardware, software, test, cybersecurity, and customer stakeholders.
• Perform full lifecycle systems engineering, including requirements development, architecture, design, integration, and V&V.
• Define architecture vision and approach for complex, multi-functional or multi-product systems that conform to and utilize reference architectures, executable architectures, and modeling of complex systems while aligning models with detailed design.
• Facilitate, conduct, and organize technical reviews, including briefing leadership and managing action-item closure.
• Build traceability across requirements, architecture, design, and test artifacts using model-based methodologies.
• Lead, coach, and guide engineering teams to develop trusted technical solutions.
• Engage with SMEs and end users to support hardware and software solution development.

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 while aligning models with detailed design.
• Ability to facilitate, conduct, and organize 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).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Digital Engineering toolsets, including IBM DOORS NextGen, Dassault MagicDraw family of products, Windchill or TeamCenter, Syndeia, and Atlassian Jira or similar.
• Experience 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 Agile development frameworks, toolsets, and roles.
• Ability to lead, coach, and guide engineering teams to develop trusted technical solutions.
• INCOSE ASEP or CSEP certification or similar systems engineering or architecture accreditation.
• Top Secret clearance.
• Master’s degree in STEM field.

Benefits

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values.

Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.

Pay

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees.

Schedule

This posting will close within 90 days from the posting date.

Work Model

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.