Technical Program Director / Lead Systems Engineer
$190,000–$304,000 year
On-siteCollege Park, Maryland, United States
Job Summary
Serve as the primary technical interface to the customer, leading discussions, briefings, risk decisions, and roadmap alignment. Translate evolving mission needs into actionable technical strategy and execution plans across research and infrastructure. Own delivery outcomes for availability, performance, compliance posture, and operational excellence while acting as the senior systems engineering authority for end-to-end architecture in multi-domain environments. Lead engineering efforts for system development, integration, and certification, including high-visibility compliance initiatives and secure baselines across multi-OS environments. Drive core infrastructure support services for compute, storage, network services, identity, monitoring, and lifecycle refresh. Improve resiliency through incident response, root-cause analysis, performance tuning, and change control. Lead cross-functional teams and direct subcontract personnel to maintain delivery quality and alignment with research execution.
Required Qualifications
- 20+ years of experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Management, or related discipline
- Five years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for bachelor's degree, for a total of 25 years of experience
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience working with large complex engineering systems and subsystems
- Expertise applied across multiple engineering disciplines such as electrical, computer, software, telecommunications, information security, and networking
- Demonstrated success as a hands-on technical leader who can also set strategy and drive execution across teams and stakeholders within complex mission environments
- Proven customer-facing leadership: ability to brief clearly, make tradeoffs, manage expectations, and communicate risk/impact that is clearly understood
- High level of experience within classified environments and the operational realities of compliance, access controls, and mission uptime
- Experience implementing security best practices in high-compliance environments
- Ability to plan work, manage technical risk, and drive accountability across mixed teams of Peraton, subcontract, and customer personnel, to deliver outcomes on schedule
- This position requires an active/current TS/SCI w/ Polygraph
Desired Qualifications
- Experience serving as an engineering director, program engineering lead, or equivalent senior technical authority
- Experience designing secure data management solutions
- Virtualization, hyperconverged infrastructure, enterprise storage platforms and/or research compute environments (HPC)
- Experience supporting research teams and experimental environments where requirements evolve and rapid iteration is needed
Additional Requirements
- This position requires an active/current TS/SCI w/ Polygraph
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