External Title Expert Systems Engineer

We are seeking an Expert-Level Systems Engineer to provide technical leadership in the integration, development, and advancement of complex, mission‑critical systems and commercial Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) capabilities. This role supports multidisciplinary engineering efforts across interconnected enterprise environments, with an emphasis on commercial products, data workflows, and capabilities supporting national and allied missions.

The successful candidate will provide expert technical guidance to Government stakeholders, lead and mentor engineering teams, and help translate mission needs into effective systems engineering solutions. This position requires extensive experience with enterprise systems engineering, requirements traceability, systems integration, and technical planning across complex organizational and infrastructure boundaries.

Location: Fully onsite in Chantilly or Springfield, VA.

• Lead and mentor Junior-, Mid-, and Senior‑Level Systems Engineers across requirements engineering, solution development, systems integration, scheduling, testing and evaluation, maintainability, and operational analysis, with a focus on commercial product and data workflows.

• Lead the planning and analysis of user requirements, system architectures, workflows, procedures, and technical challenges to improve or automate existing capabilities.

• Perform requirements and architecture traceability and assess cloud service capabilities, workflow processes, and scheduling constraints.

• Advise Government stakeholders on proposed solution design changes based on requirements analysis, emerging technologies, and evolving mission needs.

• Capture and translate mission and customer needs into defined system and capability requirements and engineering solutions.

• Analyze and allocate requirements across system architecture components and executing programs to maintain alignment between mission objectives and technical implementation.

• Lead and support systems integration activities across complex, interconnected environments.

• Lead or support Analyses of Alternatives (AoAs), Courses of Action (CoAs), trade studies, and engineering assessments to evaluate technical approaches and inform decision‑making.

• Contribute to strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management, and interface design.

• Provide expert technical guidance to align engineering vision, strategy, plans, requirements, processes, and capability development.

• Support the integration of multiple major system acquisitions across organizational, agency, departmental, and national boundaries.

• Contribute to the planning and integration of commercial GEOINT capabilities in support of national and allied mission requirements.

Location:

This position is fully onsite in Chantilly or Springfield, VA.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or a related STEM field, with the following substitutions permitted:

  • No degree:
    Four additional years of relevant experience.

  • Non-STEM degree:
    Two additional years of relevant experience.

• At least 18 years of relevant government or industry experience supporting one or more of the following:

  • Department of Defense (DoD) or Intelligence Community (IC) acquisition processes.

  • Requirements development and management processes.

  • Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES).

  • Systems engineering for large, complex systems of systems.

  • Service‑oriented architecture environments operating across cloud, on‑premises, and hybrid infrastructures.

• Strong understanding of the full systems engineering lifecycle.

• Demonstrated…