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 not only design and develop this system, but also evolve them 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

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in systems engineering and product development
• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, Technology, and Mathematics (STEM)
• Secret clearance (applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information)

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
• Ability to effectively engage with SMEs and end users to support hardware and software solution development
• INCOSE ASEP or CSEP certification or similar systems engineering or architecture accreditation
• Top Secret clearance
• Master’s degree in STEM field

Benefits

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
• Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care
• Recognition awards program acknowledging 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 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).

Schedule

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

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: Occasional in-person work at a Booz Allen or customer facility may be required.
• Hybrid: Frequent work from a Booz Allen facility, with alignment to leadership expectations and role needs. Visits to customer facilities may also be required.
• Onsite: Work primarily performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, with direct collaboration as required by the role.