Enterprise Capabilities Architect - Systems Engineering, C2, and Networks Architect

Enterprise Capabilities Architect - Systems Engineering, C2, and Networks Architect

Job Location s: US-VA-Reston | US-NJ-Basking Ridge | US-FL-Melbourne

Requisition :

Position Category:
Growth

Clearance:
Top Secret

What you'll do:

• Lead the Peraton Enterprise Capabilities and Solutions Portfolio for mission systems engineering, command and control, and intelligence and defense applications from strategy through execution, ensuring every offering is aligned to business priorities, technically sound, and built to compete across all Peraton customer's market spaces.
• Work directly with capture teams, sector growth leaders, and SMEs to shape Mission Engineering solutions from early opportunity identification through proposal submission.
• Develop technical discriminators, solution narratives, and competitive positioning materials that support capture and proposal efforts across the enterprise, with deep credibility in mission systems engineering, command and control architecture, and intelligence and defense applications.
• Design and develop scalable, reusable mission engineering service offerings, architectures, and technical frameworks that give Peraton's sector teams a competitive edge on federal pursuits.
• Continuously evolve the portfolio by analyzing capability gaps, technology readiness, and market trends across mission systems, defense acquisition, and national security requirements to identify portfolio enhancements and competitive differentiation opportunities that strengthen Peraton's position in core markets.
• Provide thought leadership and author white papers and other solution artifacts to support customer engagement efforts highlighting newly developed frameworks and Peraton Labs applicable technologies.
• Partner with sector growth teams, business stakeholders, and engineering leadership to translate market opportunities into viable, differentiated service offerings.
• Drive the design and architecture of services across the portfolio. Ensure each service is fully defined with supporting sales assets, cost models, and solution guides that equip sector teams to sell and deliver.
• Present technical strategies, mission architecture roadmaps, and solution recommendations to customers, capture teams, and executive leadership with the clarity and confidence to drive decisions.
• Engage with key customers, industry partners, and technology vendors to stay ahead of evolving mission requirements, emerging defense capabilities, and competitive dynamics across Peraton's national security customer base.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, systems engineering, or related field, and 16+ years of industry experience OR 14+ years with a Master's OR 10+ years with a PhD
• Deep expertise in systems engineering principles and methodologies aligned to INCOSE and DoD systems engineering frameworks, with demonstrated experience applying them across the full defense acquisition lifecycle
• Proven experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) using tools such as Cameo, Rhapsody, or MATLAB/Simulink to design, analyze, and communicate complex mission system architectures
• Demonstrated experience designing and integrating C4
  
  ISR systems and mission applications, with working knowledge of DoDAF viewpoints and their application to mission architecture development
• Working knowledge of interoperability standards including and tactical data links such as Link 16, and experience designing systems that operate across multi-domain environments
• Experience with real-time and embedded systems engineering for mission-critical applications, including sensor fusion and multi-domain data integration across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains
• Demonstrated experience with digital engineering practices and model-based design applied across defense acquisition programs
• Direct experience supporting federal government customers in a contractor environment, with a working understanding of mission requirements, acquisition processes, and the competitive federal market
• Proven experience contributing to competitive federal pursuits, including technical solution…