Senior Systems Engineer in Silver

Job Description

Are you ready to join Leidos’ all-star team? Through training, teamwork, and exposure to challenging technical work, let Leidos show how to accelerate your career path.

Leidos has an exciting opening for the next TS/SCI Senior Systems Engineer supporting DIA’s Digital Exploitation and OSINT Center (NDOC) under our 10-year DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) contract. You will have impact as part of a mission focused, solutions oriented, and adaptive team that values innovation, collaboration, and professional development. The Senior System Engineer will perform and manage the full spectrum of systems engineering tasks including requirements analysis, feature, system and interface design, system integration, system testing, and support of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and associated documentation.

You will also act as scrum master to lead a software development team while managing risks, escalating impediments, and driving continuous process improvement. While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and, occasionally, some tasks may be performed remotely. Percentage of remote work will vary based on client requirements.

As a senior member of the team, you bring deep expertise in Systems Engineering and will work closely with Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, Architects, and Government counterparts on the following key tasks:

• Technical support, coordination, and execution of systems engineering activities such as feature/requirements analysis, design, implementation planning, integration and test, sustainment, documentation, deployment, and system assessment.
• Perform systems engineering tasks within time-boxed (e.g., Agile) sprints and releases, support sprint and release planning activities, and create or input work tickets (e.g., Gitlab issues) and program/system documentation using collaboration software (e.g., Gitlab wiki).
• Support and employ MBSE approach for systems planning, design, execution, and sustainment in coordination with the Lead SE and SE team members.
• Help to define processes for technical platforms, system specifications, input/output and working parameters for hardware and/or software compatibility.
• Assist in establishing SE processes and tools to accomplish analysis, problem diagnosis and solution design, integration and test preparation, risk assessment and mitigation planning, and related activities.
• Manage a scrum team performing development activities across the microservices and support system architectures.

You are rigorous while having the ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience. You bring leadership skills and enthusiasm and meet the following qualifications:

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 12+ years in software development, system engineering, or related field. Additional years of experience in lieu of degree are acceptable.
• Must have an active Top Secret//SCI security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Polygraph.
• Experience with creating design packages and workflows.
• Experience in writing technical solutions and whitepapers.
• Experience implementing key Agile processes and techniques.
• Experience facilitating scrum for the team (Planning, Retrospective, Grooming & Review/Demo).
• Experience with Gitlab workflow, JIRA, Confluence, or similar tools.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Familiarity with an MBSE approach and tools or experience with framework/approach like MBSE.

You will wow us even more if you have some of these skills:

• Software development/coding experience with programming such as Python, Java, and React.
• Experience with database systems, search engines, model view controller (MVC), and web applications.
• Experience in a Red Hat, CentOS, or Oracle Linux environment.
• Experience with big data applications.
• Scaled Agile Framework certification (SAFe Agilist or other).
• Familiarity with continuous integration/continuous development tools (Jenkins, Bamboo, or equivalent).

Original Posting:
April 17, 2026

Pay Range: $ - $. The…