Senior Systems-of-Systems SME Lead

LMI is seeking a Senior Systems-of-Systems Subject-Matter Expert (SME) Lead to provide strategic and technical leadership supporting PMOD’s integration of complex, interdependent operational technology capabilities across U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) and CBP. The selected individual will apply systems-of-systems engineering and enterprise architecture principles to help ensure that diverse technologies operate as an integrated enterprise rather than as standalone capabilities.

The role requires a senior leader with substantial experience supporting complex federal, homeland security, defense, or similarly mission-focused environments. The individual will help guide the integration of capabilities such as sensor systems, data platforms, AI-enabled analytics, communications and infrastructure services, command-and-control applications, and unmanned systems. The individual will advocate for PMOD priorities; coordinate with integration teams, field stakeholders, and partner organizations;

and help inform acquisition, engineering, integration, testing, deployment, sustainment, and modernization decisions.

The Senior Systems-of-Systems SME Lead will identify common integration risks and challenges, promote repeatable engineering and governance practices, and help establish an enterprise approach to planning, designing, delivering, and sustaining interoperable operational capabilities.

This position requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a CBP Background Investigation (BI) is required; active CBP BI preferred. This position requires 20% travel that may entail remote and rugged areas.

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.

Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.

• Serve as PMOD’s senior systems-of-systems engineering and enterprise integration advisor for complex operational technology initiatives across USBP and CBP.
• Develop and advance a systems-of-systems approach that enables interoperable, scalable, resilient, and sustainable mission capabilities across multiple programs, portfolios, and technology domains.
• Apply enterprise architecture, systems engineering, and integration best practices to assess how individual systems, platforms, services, data sources, and operational processes interact within the larger CBP technology environment.
• Provide technical leadership for the integration of sensors, AI-enabled analytics, communications and infrastructure capabilities, data platforms, command-and-control applications, unmanned systems, and related technologies.
• Identify system dependencies, interoperability needs, integration risks, technical constraints, capability gaps, and lifecycle considerations that may affect operational outcomes.
• Develop and recommend repeatable systems engineering approaches, integration patterns, reference architectures, interface standards, technical governance processes, and decision frameworks.
• Support the definition and refinement of enterprise architecture artifacts, including operational views, capability maps, system context diagrams, data flows, interface…