Lead Systems Engineer

Lead Systems Engineer

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The Architecture Analysis Department researches, develops, and applies advanced technologies in the following Systems Engineering areas:

• Model-Based System Architecting
• Architecture Analysis
• Digital Engineering Transformation

Architecture Analysis enables digital transformation by linking stakeholder needs, operational concepts, and engineering data into an integrated digital thread. The department applies model-based system architecting to define and evolve system structures, interfaces, behaviors, and dependencies for complex systems. The department also delivers architecture analysis through trade studies and assessments of performance, risk, and system interactions to support sound design and investment decisions.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The Architecture Analysis Department is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to support government sponsors in architecting, analyzing, and advancing complex mission and enterprise systems across evolving national security environments. The selected candidate will lead the application of Model-Based System Architecting (MBSA), Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Architecture Analysis, and Digital Engineering methods to develop, evaluate, and evolve system architectures that enable informed engineering, acquisition, and investment decisions.

Working collaboratively across technical, operational, acquisition, and programmatic stakeholders, the candidate will translate mission needs into integrated architectural solutions, engineering analyses, digital engineering artifacts, and actionable recommendations that improve mission outcomes and enable digital transformation through an authoritative digital thread.

• Apply systems engineering, model-based system architecting, and architecture analysis principles across the system lifecycle, including mission analysis, concept development, architecture definition, requirements development, integration planning, verification, validation, deployment planning, and technical transition.
• Lead the development and evolution of operational, functional, logical, physical, and enterprise architectures that capture stakeholder needs, mission objectives, system behaviors, interfaces, dependencies, and implementation considerations for complex systems and systems-of-systems.
• Apply MBSE, MBSA, and Digital Engineering methods to develop and maintain authoritative digital engineering artifacts that establish traceability across stakeholder needs, operational concepts, system architectures, requirements, interfaces, constraints, analyses, and verification activities within an integrated digital thread.
• Conduct architecture analyses, trade studies, mission engineering assessments, and capability gap analyses to evaluate alternative architectures, emerging technologies, operational concepts, and system designs using both qualitative and quantitative techniques.
• Develop and apply analytical methods, models, simulations, and metrics to assess system performance, interoperability, resiliency, robustness, maintainability, affordability, technical risk, and mission effectiveness.
• Lead stakeholder engagements, technical workshops, architecture reviews, and engineering working groups to elicit, analyze, document, and validate mission, operational, functional, interface, security, and performance requirements while ensuring alignment across sponsor organizations.
• Support requirements management, interface management, architecture governance, and configuration management activities to ensure consistency and traceability across engineering products and digital artifacts.
• Advise government sponsors and program managers on architecture strategies, digital engineering transformation, technology insertion opportunities, system modernization approaches, technical roadmaps, and engineering decisions that improve mission outcomes and reduce program risk.
• Support acquisition planning and execution by contributing…