Associate Director, Systems Engineering​/Systems Architect; Onsite

Position Overview

Associate Director, Systems Engineering/Systems Architect – Sterling, VA. Onsite role. U.S. citizenship required. Active and transferable U.S. government issued Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility required on day one.

• Lead the LSA’s participation in Performance Assessment Working Groups, owning trade studies, COA assessments, and technical evaluations necessary to determine SoS architecture changes required to align with evolving CONOPs, threats, and mission priorities.
• Provide authoritative recommendations to Navy leadership on architecture impacts and risk posture.
• Collaborate with other RTX offices performing similar LRKC trade studies, many conducted at highly classified networks.
• Lead Systems Definition Working Group activities to define and mature detailed technical solutions within the SoS architecture.
• Drive translation of high‑level warfighter priorities into actionable capability definitions, ensuring architectural feasibility, technical rigor, and traceability.
• Understand thoroughly the technical attributes of third‑party capabilities currently integrated into the system and the inclusion of additional capabilities.
• Serve as a senior technical partner to the Technical Fellow leading the Modeling & Simulation (M&S) efforts.
• Drive LSA contributions to the Navy’s SoS M&S baseline, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with operational readiness assessments.
• Provide oversight and guidance to ensure LSA MBSE artifacts, data models, and simulation inputs meet the Navy’s technical and programmatic needs.
• Lead collaboration with the Raytheon Tucson High‑Performance Compute environment, known as the Air Dominance Test Bed, to ensure synergy of M&S efforts.
• Partner with the Test & Evaluation (TE) lead to expand LSA coverage across the full scope of TE activities.
• Provide independent judgment, strategic technical oversight, and mentoring to ensure comprehensive test planning, traceability to requirements, and alignment with MBSE models and system behavior predictions.
• Ensure the LSA team appropriately supports formal Developmental and Operational Test (DT/OT) activities.
• Own the creation, evolution, and configuration management of the System‑of‑Systems formal ASPEC and BSPEC requirements.
• Provide senior technical leadership in deriving requirements from high‑level government documents and CONOPs, ensuring completeness, consistency, and integration with MBSE architecture products and test use cases.
• Demonstrate flexibility in guiding the team’s efforts as the Navy continuously modifies and evolves their architectural requirements and CONOPs.
• Serve as the LSA lead for Advanced Concepts, driving trades, COAs, and feasibility analyses for new capabilities, data sources, communication networks, cyber needs, and emerging weapons systems.

• Experience guiding the strategic technical vision of a program, including driving the design, development cadence, priorities, etc.
• Experience conducting trade studies as both an individual contributor and lead.
• Experience working directly with customers and customer stakeholders in the Department of War.
• Minimum of 2 years experience working as a Product Owner on a large program.
• Strong understanding of requirements development processes and MBSE methodologies; proficiency in applicable tools (e.g., DOORS, Cameo, Magic Draw, Rhapsody, or similar).
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and a minimum of 7 years experience.
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility required prior to start date.
• U.S. citizenship required.

• Current TSSCI Master’s degree in Engineering.
• Certification in Agile methodologies (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager).
• Experience in aerospace or defense industries.
• Experience with DOORS, JIRA, or similar tools.
• Experience interfacing with Navy customers.
• Experience writing Technical Volumes.
• Experience writing Basis of Estimates.
• Experience developing…