Strategic Technical Campaign Lead - C5ISR Director

Responsibilities

As a Systems Engineering Leader with a focus on strategic innovation, you’ll drive the design of future warfighting systems—guiding big ideas from concept to capability, and directly influencing how national defense technology is shaped. This is a rare opportunity to lead and merge engineering innovation and strategic impact, while shaping the direction of our business and our customer’s missions.

 

We are seeking a visionary Systems Engineering Leader to serve as a principal architect of enterprise-level innovation—leading the transformation of cutting-edge R&D (CRAD and IRAD) into mission-ready, operationally resilient systems. This role is pivotal in fusing deep technical leadership with strategic foresight to deliver impactful solutions aligned with national security priorities and campaign-level initiatives such as GoldenDome, C5ISR modernization, TCPED optimization, and spectrum operations dominance.

 

This position is more than technical oversight—it's a senior engineering, customer facing role with strategic influence, where end-to-end system thinking, mission integration, and technology vision converge. You will play a leading role in shaping enterprise campaigns, architecting innovative pipelines, and building the systems that will define future warfighting advantage.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

• Lead End-to-End System Design & Concept Engineering: Own the technical architecture and system engineering solutions from concept through operational transition, ensuring integration, scalability, and mission readiness of emerging technologies.
• Drive Innovation-to-Impact Transformation: Translate R&D outputs into executable, fieldable systems that address mission-critical needs across ISR, Cyber, EW, and Spectrum Operations domains.
• Architect Across Mission Domains: Engineer interoperable, cross-domain solutions that integrate cyber-resilient C5ISR platforms, multi-INT TCPED pipelines, spectrum-aware sensors, and real-time analytics architectures.
• Shape and Support Enterprise Strategy: Collaborate with corporate strategy, technology leadership, and our customers to align engineering direction with strategic campaign priorities and investment roadmaps, particularly around GoldenDome objectives and new major national security objectives.
• Guide Technical Capture & Business Development: Serve as senior engineering lead on high-priority captures, providing solution architecture, system performance analysis, technical narratives, and differentiators that resonate with mission buyers. Brief advanced technical topics to both customers and internal stakeholders.
• Support High-Value Campaigns and R&D Strategy: Lead engineering planning for major enterprise campaigns, ensuring alignment between R&D portfolios, customer needs, and opportunity timing.
• Build & Leverage Innovation Ecosystems: Drive collaboration with external technology sources including national labs, FFRDCs, universities, and commercial innovators to accelerate system evolution and mission impact.
• Champion Mission-Driven Tech Insertion: Prioritize and guide transition of emerging technologies—such as AI-enabled signal processing, cross-domain data flows, and low-latency exploitation systems—into resilient, deployable architectures.
• Conduct Technical Reviews and Mission Assurance Assessments: Serve as senior design authority on internal reviews, engineering gates, and readiness evaluations across key programs and R&D initiatives.
• Advise Senior Leaders: Influence executive-level decisions with technical insight into system feasibility, risk, integration timelines, and transition pathways.

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelors or Master’s in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.

Experience:

• 16+ years in mission-focused systems engineering roles within the Defense, Intelligence, or national security ecosystem.
• Proven track record leading system development and transition efforts across C5ISR, cyber, and spectrum domains.
• Experience influencing corporate or enterprise strategy through technical leadership and engineering planning.
• Experience delivering engineering solutions in accordance with Federal Acquisition the Regulation (FAR).

Technical Expertise:

• Deep understanding of ISR technologies and capabilities, including: TCPED workflows, platform integration, and multi-domain operations.
• Strong background in spectrum operations, RF systems, electronic protection, and sensor fusion.
• Familiarity with cyber defense protocols.
• Familiarity with all-domain operations, including CEMA, denied environment communications, and cloud-to-edge exploitation.
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