Enterprise Digital Engineering Architect Super SME - Space-Based Sensing / Environmental Monitoring

Overview

Stellar Solutions, a nationally recognized “Great Place To Work,” delivers engineering solutions across commercial space and national security missions—from innovative new entrants to established space systems organizations.

 

We bring talented, energetic, and immediately productive professionals to meet critical customer needs in systems engineering and integration, mission operations, program management, and strategic planning—helping teams deliver resilient capability to the mission with speed, quality, and focus.

 

Stellar Solutions is seeking an Enterprise Digital Engineering Architect Super SME to support a proposed Environmental Monitoring mission area within a broader Space-Based Sensing and Tracking enterprise. This role provides enterprise-level digital engineering, MBSE, architecture, mission-thread analysis, cross-program integration, and effects-chain analysis support to help government customers establish scalable engineering discipline across programs at varying stages of maturity. The role is intended to provide cross-mission leadership and shape the digital-engineering foundation needed to connect requirements, architectures, mission threads, data flows, effects chains, verification approaches, and operational outcomes.

Role/Responsibilities/Qualifications

This is a senior technical expert role supporting enterprise-level digital engineering strategy, model governance, and cross-program integration. The role advises customer leadership, guides engineering teams, and helps establish digital-engineering practices that are actionable, governed, and connected to mission outcomes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Serve as an enterprise-level digital engineering and MBSE subject matter expert supporting Environmental Monitoring and related space-based sensing mission areas.
• Develop, assess, and mature digital engineering strategies, MBSE approaches, architecture frameworks, model governance, and engineering data standards.
• Support cross-program integration by connecting mission needs, operational effects, requirements, architectures, interfaces, data flows, verification activities, and program execution.
• Lead or support mission thread analysis, effects-chain analysis, and end-to-end capability mapping from sensor collection through ground processing, dissemination, user action, and mission outcome.
• Establish digital-engineering foundations during early program activation, including model structure, architecture repositories, data standards, and governance rhythms.
• Support Define-Assess-Forecast-Build activities by identifying digital-engineering competency gaps, model maturity, workforce needs, and scalable technical approaches.
• Work across mission systems engineers, program office teams, acquisition stakeholders, contractors, operational users, ground systems teams, and enterprise leadership.
• Evaluate existing architecture products, models, requirements structures, interface documentation, and digital artifacts to identify gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities for reuse.
• Develop and refine architecture views, mission threads, operational viewpoints, system viewpoints, interface mappings, and traceability structures.
• Support acquisition engineering by helping align digital artifacts with RFPs, SOWs/PWSs, CDRLs, evaluation criteria, technical reviews, and contractor deliverables.
• Provide executive-level recommendations on digital-engineering adoption, model maturity, toolchain strategy, cross-program dependencies, and enterprise integration risks.
• Support progression toward IOC and FOC by ensuring digital-engineering products are actionable, governed, and connected to mission outcomes.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of systems engineering, digital engineering, MBSE, architecture, mission engineering, enterprise integration, SETA, FFRDC, or government advisory experience.
• Senior-level experience leading digital engineering transformation, MBSE implementation, architecture modernization, model governance, or enterprise engineering strategy.
• Experience supporting government space, ISR, GEOINT, remote sensing, radar/RF, SAR, environmental monitoring, satellite ground systems, mission-data, or national security programs.
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks, digital-thread concepts, mission threads, effects-chain analysis, requirements traceability, interface management, and model-based lifecycle support.
• Experience with tools and methods such as Cameo, MagicDraw, SysML, UAF, DoDAF, UPDM, MBSE repositories, digital twins, model governance, or architecture data environments.
• Ability to guide senior government customers, engineering teams, contractors, and stakeholders through digital-engineering adoption and execution.