Sr. Scientist, Systems Engineering

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Job Title:
Sr. Scientist, Systems Engineering

Job Code: 43409

Job Location:
Clifton, NJ

Job Schedule: 9/80:
Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other Friday off

The EW Division Architect serves as the senior technical leader responsible for defining, aligning, and advancing the division’s technical vision, architecture strategy, and mission capability roadmap across the Electronic Warfare portfolio. This individual provides division-level leadership in shaping future technologies, aligning investments to customer mission needs, guiding architectural decisions across multiple programs, and influencing business strategy through deep technical and operational insight.

The Division Architect partners closely with division leadership, engineering teams, program managers, capture teams, and customers to ensure technical coherence, innovation, and competitive positioning across current and future EW solutions.

• Own and maintain the EW Division technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with customer mission needs, market trends, and business strategy
• Provide division-wide systems architecture leadership across multiple EW programs, pursuits, and technology investments
• Define and communicate the technical vision for future EW mission capabilities, platforms, and integrated solutions
• Guide architectural decisions and trade studies to ensure consistency, scalability, and mission effectiveness across the portfolio
• Partner with business development, capture, and program leadership to identify and shape new opportunities and strengthen technical win strategies
• Support customer engagement by communicating technical concepts, capability evolution, and mission relevance with credibility and clarity
• Identify emerging technologies, competitive trends, and mission gaps to inform strategic planning and investment priorities
• Influence research, development, and innovation efforts to mature differentiated EW capabilities for future growth
• Identify and drive cross-site and cross-business collaboration to develop integrated, partnered solutions that address customer mission needs across the EW portfolio
• Identify, establish, and strengthen cross-industry and vendor partnerships to deliver mission capability solutions that solve customer challenges and enhance competitive positioning
• Provide technical mentorship and leadership to senior engineers, architects, and emerging technical leaders across the division
• Serve as a trusted advisor to division leadership on technical risk, opportunity, roadmap priorities, and long-range capability strategy
• Ensure architectural alignment across classified and unclassified efforts, consistent with operational, technical, and business objectives
• Support integration of technology, mission needs, and product/system architectures in a manner that enables growth and execution success.
• Oversee the division investment portfolio, including direct IRAD and other strategic technology investments, to align…