Senior Lead Systems Engineer & Integrator
Location: Arlington, VA-Hybrid
Duration: 6+ months
Interview: Phone/ Skype-2Rounds
End Client: Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation: VT-ARC
Visa: only
Linkedin Must have
Note: Active Top Secret/SCI clearance is required
Job Description:
This role is best suited for a senior practitioner who is equally comfortable developing systems engineering artifacts, resolving technical integration issues, supporting design and implementation decisions, and coordinating technical work across multiple teams. While the position includes some project and execution management responsibilities, the primary emphasis is on systems engineering rigor, technical integration, and hands-on problem solving.
Active Top Secret/SCI clearance is required.
Join our team and take advantage of a competitive signing bonus
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Lead systems engineering and technical integration efforts across a complex network engineering program.
- Translate operational needs, mission requirements, and technical constraints into actionable systems engineering products and integrated solution approaches.
- Develop, refine, and maintain key systems engineering artifacts, including CONOPS, requirements, interface definitions, architecture products, verification approaches, and technical plans.
- Drive interoperability and end-to-end integration across system, subsystem, network, and external stakeholder boundaries.
- Work closely with architects, engineers, program leadership, and customer stakeholders to ensure technical solutions are feasible, supportable, and aligned with program objectives.
- Identify, assess, and help resolve technical risks, design gaps, integration issues, and cross-functional dependencies.
- Support technical planning and execution, including development of schedules, milestones, engineering reviews, and implementation priorities.
- Contribute directly to technical problem solving, design tradeoff analysis, requirements decomposition, and solution maturation.
- Prepare and brief technical status, engineering issues, risks, and recommendations to leadership and clients.
- Support program reviews and technical baselines, including requirements, design, test, and readiness review activities.
- Help coordinate engineering execution across multiple contributors while maintaining technical quality, discipline, and accountability.
Required Education, Certification, Skills, Capabilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field.
- 10 or more years of relevant experience in systems engineering, systems integration, technical program execution, or related engineering leadership roles, preferably in defense or government contracting environments.
- Demonstrated experience leading hands-on systems engineering and integration efforts for complex technical programs involving multiple interconnected systems.
- Strong background in developing and managing systems engineering artifacts such as CONOPS, requirements documents, architecture products, interface definitions, verification approaches, and technical plans.
- Experience translating user, mission, and operational needs into integrated technical solutions and executable engineering activities.
- Working knowledge of systems engineering lifecycle activities, technical baselines, and engineering review processes.
- Experience coordinating across technical teams and stakeholders to drive alignment, integration, and issue resolution.
- Ability to establish technical objectives, formulate executable plans, and implement solutions in collaboration with multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly with technical teams, program leadership, and clients.
Desired Education, Certification, Skills, Capabilities:
- Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Technology Management, or related field.
- 15 or more years of relevant experience in systems engineering, integration, or technical leadership roles.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or comparable program/project execution experience.
- Experience with communications and networking systems design, implementation, integration, and test.
- Experience supporting formal systems engineering and program reviews such as SRR, SFR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and related events.
- Familiarity with budgeting, resource planning, and program execution tracking.
- Experience operating in secure, mission-driven environments with high reliability, security, and operational performance expectations.
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