Director of Systems Engineering, Integration & Testing; SEIT

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The Director of Systems Engineering, Integration & Test (SEIT) is a senior technical and organizational leader responsible for establishing, guiding, and assuring CAE’s integrated systems engineering, system architecture, verification, validation, and test execution activities across assigned programs. This role provides unified leadership over requirements development, change management, systems design, integration readiness, test program planning, and product acceptance assuring all engineering processes, artifacts, certifications, and test outcomes meet CAE, customer, and regulatory standards.

The SEIT Director leads a multidisciplinary team spanning systems engineers, architects, integration engineers, test directors, instructional design, systems/software/hardware interface specialists, cyber engineering contributors, and verification/validation personnel. The Director sets vision, defines processes, enforces engineering rigor, and drives execution excellence across the full lifecycle.

• Establish and champion CAE’s SEIT strategy, operating model, workflows, and technical standards across programs.
• Lead the SEIT organization, overseeing staffing, skill development, resource forecasting, and team performance.
• Serve as the authority for engineering processes, systems engineering plans, integration plans, test approaches, and verification/validation frameworks.
• Ensure alignment and seamless coordination between product IPTs, Test IPT, Chief Engineers (CE), and Program Management as required.
• Develop, update, and enforce SEIT-related policies, plans, and work instructions.

• Oversee requirements analysis, decomposition, allocation, management, and traceability throughout the full lifecycle.
• Ensure rigorous baseline control, configuration management, and proper change-control processes.
• Guide system architecture development, interface definition, and system/subsystem design integration.
• Champion the technical review process, co‑lead major technical reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, TIMs, etc) with the IPT and CE teams, and ensure readiness artifacts meet required quality standards.
• Promote adoption of modern SE methodologies (MBSE, MOSA principles, Dev Sec Ops ‑aligned development, digital engineering).
• Ensure engineering products meet cost, technical performance, schedule, cybersecurity, availability, supportability, and quality metrics.

• Oversee development and execution of Integration and Test plans (STP), Acceptance Test Procedures (ATPs), readiness assessments, and integration milestones.
• Ensure early involvement of integration/test leadership during subsystem development phases to drive holistic readiness.
• Direct system‑level integration activities,…