Senior System Engineer - Technical Delivery Lead

Senior System Engineer - Technical Delivery Lead - 722

Annapolis Junction, MD

Join a team that powers the business enterprise behind the mission. Freedom supports the sustainment, modernization, and transformation of more than 100 enterprise business systems that enable tens of thousands of government personnel, industry partners, and prospective employees worldwide. Our teams develop, modernize, secure, and operate the applications and services that support workforce management, training, financial operations, acquisitions, security processing, and executive decision‑making across multiple secure environments.

As part of this program, you will work alongside experts in software engineering, cloud computing, Dev Sec Ops , systems engineering, and enterprise platforms to modernize legacy systems, automate business processes, and deliver innovative solutions that improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance the user experience. The work you perform will help ensure the organization has the technology, information, and capabilities needed to support its workforce and accomplish its mission.

The Senior Systems Engineer will serve as the task‑order‑level technical and delivery integration lead across a portfolio of approximately eight COTS and GOTS applications supported by multiple development teams. Working closely with the Government Product Lead, delivery team technical leads, and the Freedom Program Management Office, this individual will provide senior technical leadership, coordinate cross‑team activities and dependencies, promote consistent engineering and delivery practices, and help ensure milestones are achieved predictably.

This role is highly collaborative and Government‑facing. The Senior Systems Engineer will work in partnership with delivery team technical leads to provide portfolio‑level coordination, technical alignment, and escalation support across teams. The individual must maintain sufficient technical depth to assess solution approaches, identify risks and dependencies, support technical decision‑making, and ensure documentation and requirements are complete, accurate, and aligned with delivery and production readiness needs.

• Serve as the senior systems engineering and technical integration lead across a portfolio of COTS and GOTS applications supported by multiple delivery teams.
• Provide a consolidated technical and delivery perspective to the Government Product Lead and Freedom Program Management Office.
• Develop a strong understanding of the mission, applications, technologies, architectures, interfaces, dependencies, and delivery priorities across the portfolio.
• Coordinate cross‑team technical activities, integration points, risks, dependencies, decisions, and sequencing requirements through resolution.
• Promote consistent engineering processes, technical standards, quality expectations, documentation practices, and delivery discipline across teams.
• Review significant requirements, technical approaches, designs, and implementation plans to identify risks, conflicts, gaps, and cross‑team impacts.
• Facilitate technical discussions among Government leadership, Product Leads, delivery teams, mission stakeholders, and program leadership.
• Translate stakeholder needs into clear system‑level requirements, technical options, and actionable implementation guidance.
• Support portfolio planning, backlog prioritization, milestone readiness, technical sequencing, and delivery risk management.
• Proactively identify and communicate technical issues, delivery risks, delays, and team alignment concerns, escalating significant matters to Program Management when appropriate.
• Maintain sufficient technical depth to assess solution approaches, identify risks and dependencies, support technical decision‑making, facilitate technical discussions, and ensure documentation and requirements are aligned with delivery and production readiness needs.
• Use Atlassian products to support requirements management, workflow standardization, traceability, dependency tracking, reporting, and process improvement.
• Coordinate and quality review Weekly Activity Reports and other required…