Systems Engineering Lead

Systems Engineering Lead **The Opportunity:** 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, we’re looking for you to 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. Join us. The world can’t wait. **You Have:** - 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 and aligning models with detailed design - Experience facilitating, conducting, and organizing 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) **Nice If You Have:** - Experience with Digital Engineering toolsets, including IBM DOORS NextGen, Dassault MagicDraw family of products, Windchill or TeamCenter, Syndeia, and Atlassian Jira or similar - Experience in 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 the 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 **Clearance:** Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required. **Compensation** 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 a…