Defense Solutions Architect: Digital Engineering & Capture

Sabel Systems Technology Solutions Llc; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabel Systems designs and delivers digital engineering ecosystems for DoD programs, enabling teams to connect data, systems, and personnel within secure environments. This role owns the technical side of business development from discovery through post-award transition.

You’ll conduct competitive intelligence, shape RFIs/RFPs, and deliver executive briefings to government stakeholders, translating capability into mission value and driving win strategies.

Qualifications

• US Citizen with an active DoD Secret clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, business, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience in solution engineering, solution architecture, pre-sales engineering, technical business development, or systems engineering in the defense or aerospace sector.
• Track record of customer-facing technical work: pre-sales solutioning, proposal development, technical capture, customer demonstrations, or executive-level briefings in a defense context.
• Strong systems engineering foundation: requirements decomposition, interface design, system integration, and architecture tradeoffs with government engineers.
• Working knowledge of digital engineering concepts: model-based systems engineering, digital thread, digital twin, authoritative data, and open-architecture principles.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication: comfortable with executives and engineers, and capable of producing detailed technical volumes.
• Preferred: conversational fluency in acquisition, sustainment, and modeling & simulation.
• Experience with DoD cloud environments, RMF/ATO, IL4–IL6 compliance, or DevSecOps pipeline architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical side of Sabel’s business development, from early customer discovery and needs analysis through proposal strategy, technical volumes, delivery preparation, and post-award transition.
• Conduct competitive intelligence and market assessments across the defense digital engineering landscape, identify whitespace opportunities, track competitor positioning, and translate findings into actionable capture strategies.
• Partner with Business Development to qualify opportunities, shape RFIs/RFPs where possible, and build win strategies grounded in technical differentiation and mission alignment.
• Deliver executive briefings and technical presentations to government stakeholders, from engineers to senior leaders, translating product capability into mission value.
• Author technical white papers, solution briefs, competitive analyses, and customer-facing materials that build Sabel’s brand and pipeline.
• Serve as the technical authority in customer engagements, architecting solutions that map product capabilities to digital engineering, data management, and open-architecture requirements.
• Translate customer mission threads and program requirements into functional product requirements and architectural roadmaps for Business Units.
• Translate field-level customer feedback, competitive dynamics, and market trends into product requirements and feature prioritization recommendations.
• Support pricing strategy, packaging decisions, and go-to-market planning for new product capabilities and market entries.

Skills

US Citizenship

Active DoD Secret clearance

Systems Engineering

Pre-sales / Solution engineering

Technical storytelling

Acquisition modeling & simulation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/CS/IS/related

Tools

DoD cloud environments

RMF/ATO processes

DevSecOps pipelines

Job description

Sabel Systems designs and delivers digital engineering ecosystems for DoD programs, enabling teams to connect data, systems, and personnel within secure environments. This role owns the technical side of business development from discovery through post-award transition.

You’ll conduct competitive intelligence, shape RFIs/RFPs, and deliver executive briefings to government stakeholders, translating capability into mission value and driving win strategies.