Chief Engineer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Own the application development, administration, integration, Dev Sec Ops , and operations of lifecycle of Salesforce, Deltek Costpoint, and supporting enterprise systems.

- Lead application engineering, platform operations, integration, Dev Sec Ops , and release management.

- Drive platform modernization, automation, reuse, simplification, and technical debt reduction.

- Adhere to architecture, engineering, data, and integration standards across CRM, ERP, and connected enterprise systems.

- Ensure platform security, reliability, performance, resilience, compliance, and operational health.

- Partner with business and technology leaders to prioritize capabilities, investments, and transformation initiatives.

- Build and lead high-performing teams with clear accountability, standards, and workforce strategies.

- Manage technology budgets, licensing, vendors, professional services, resources, and total cost of ownership.

- Participate in reviewing emerging technologies, including AI, automation, analytics, and platform-native capabilities.

- Typically manages multiple department(s) or a mid-sized sub-function(s) for the organization that may include multiple teams led by directors, managers, and/or supervisors. May also lead through influence of other teams/departments.

- Typically responsible for creating workforce and staffing plans for department/unit to ensure availability of human capital necessary to accomplish departmental business results.

- Typically has hiring, firing, promotion and reward authority within own area, in accordance with guidelines.

Job-Specific

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership:

- Serve as the overall technical authority for the contract or program, responsible for the integrity, feasibility, and quality of all engineering solutions.

- Ensure all technical deliverables meet contractual requirements, SLAs, performance objectives, and compliance standards.

- Lead technical decision making for scope changes, tradeoffs, risk mitigation, and issue resolution throughout the program lifecycle.

- Work directly with the Program Manager to document how scope changes impact contractual delivery; ensure clear and concise communications between all impacted stakeholders.

- Act as the senior technical interface with Program customers, supporting design reviews, technical interchange meetings, and executive briefings.

- Ensure tracking and transparency of technical work, schedule, reviews, and meetings.

- Set expectations for technical rigor, documentation quality, and engineering discipline across the program team.

- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Architecture & Engineering Direction:

- Define and own the Program engineering vision and architecture, ensuring consistency across systems, platforms, and solution components.

- Ensure solutions align with enterprise reference architectures, security frameworks, cloud/Dev Ops standards, and reuse strategies.

- Chair or participate in architecture and technical review boards related to the Program and relevant corporate strategies.

- Drive alignment between solution, systems, and platform engineering teams.

- Ensure dependencies on third party providers and complementary solutions or components are understood, documented, and maintained.

Enterprise Alignment & Reuse:

- Leverage and enforce enterprise standards, accelerators, and reusable components to reduce cost, schedule risk, and technical debt.

- Identify opportunities for cross program reuse and standardization, feeding lessons learned back into enterprise engineering practices.

- Partner with enterprise engineering, security, Dev Ops, and architecture teams to ensure program solutions scale beyond a single contract.

Risk, Quality & Delivery Assurance:

- Own technical risk management for the program, including architectural, security, performance, and integration risks.

- Ensure engineering processes support high reliability, security, scalability, and maintainability.

- Provide escalation and resolution for complex technical issues impacting cost, schedule, or mission success.

Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study.

- 12+ years of relevant professional experience.

- Progressive experience in enterprise applications, CRM, ERP, software engineering, or platform engineering.

- 7+ years of technology leadership experience managing enterprise platforms, application portfolios, or technical teams.

- Demonstrated…