Chief Engineer

Maximus; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Maximus is seeking a Chief Engineer to own end-to-end technical integrity of a complex program. You will ensure software, infrastructure, networks, data, security, and operations work cohesively to meet contractual obligations and mission requirements.

You will lead enterprise architecture, enforce engineering discipline, and drive platform modernization while managing budgets, teams, and stakeholder communication in a fully remote role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a 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.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Salesforce

Deltek Costpoint

DevSecOps

Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Maximus is currently seeking a Chief Engineer is responsible for the end-to-end technical integrity of the system delivered under a program/project. This role ensures that all system elements—software, infrastructure, networks, data, security, and operations—work together as a cohesive, verifiable, and mission ready whole while also meeting program requirements and contractual obligations, as managed by the Chief Engineer.

While embedded in the program, the Chief Systems Engineer operates with enterprise authority, enforcing systems engineering rigor, standards, and lifecycle discipline consistent with organizational best practices.

This is a remote position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Own the application development, administration, integration, DevSecOps, and operations of lifecycle of Salesforce, Deltek Costpoint, and supporting enterprise systems.
• Lead application engineering, platform operations, integration, DevSecOps, 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/DevOps 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.
• 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, DevOps, 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.
• 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,