Digital Twin Engineering Team Lead

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The Digital Twin Engineering Lead provides technical leadership for the design, development, integration, and sustainment of enterprise Digital Twin capabilities supporting Department of Defense (DoD) Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) mission systems. The incumbent leads a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for developing and maintaining Digital Twin capabilities that support systems engineering, modeling and simulation, cyber resilience, mission rehearsal, technology evaluation, engineering validation, and operational decision‑making.

Working closely with Program Management, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, Software Development, Cloud Engineering, Dev Sec Ops , and Government stakeholders, the Digital Twin Engineering Lead develops and executes the Digital Twin roadmap while ensuring alignment with mission objectives, engineering standards, cybersecurity requirements, and program priorities. This position combines technical leadership with hands‑on engineering execution and customer engagement to deliver innovative Digital Twin capabilities supporting mission‑critical DoD operations.

Applicants must possess an active DoD Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance.

Lead the design, development, integration, and sustainment of enterprise Digital Twin capabilities supporting globally distributed DoD mission systems. Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for Digital Twin architecture, modeling, simulation, visualization, and systems integration. Develop and maintain the Digital Twin technical roadmap, implementation strategy, and engineering standards. Design Digital Twin environments that accurately represent enterprise infrastructure, networks, applications, cloud services, cybersecurity posture, and operational workflows.

Develop Digital Twin capabilities supporting systems engineering, mission planning, cyber terrain visualization, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, resiliency analysis, technology insertion, and engineering validation. Integrate operational telemetry, monitoring, cybersecurity, and infrastructure data into Digital Twin environments. Ensure Digital Twin models remain synchronized with production architectures, engineering baselines, and configuration management processes. Support cyber testing, engineering experimentation, security validation, and resiliency assessments using Digital Twin environments.

Coordinate software development, systems engineering, cloud engineering, Dev Sec Ops , and cybersecurity activities supporting Digital Twin initiatives. Develop technical documentation, architecture diagrams, engineering standards, implementation plans, and operating procedures. Present technical briefings, demonstrations, and recommendations to Government customers and program leadership. Support proposal development, technical solutioning, BOEs, ROMs, customer demonstrations, and strategic technology planning. Mentor engineers and promote engineering innovation and best practices.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Active DoD Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance.
• Minimum of 8 years supporting enterprise systems engineering, Digital Engineering, software engineering, enterprise…