Lead Space Systems Software Engineer — End-to-End Dev

Booz Allen Hamilton; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 113,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a seasoned Space System Software Engineer, Lead, to guide end-to-end software development for space and missile defense programs. You will lead a team, set architecture direction, and ensure production readiness of software-enabled products in a fast-paced, agile environment.

The role emphasizes DevOps, systems engineering, and cross-functional collaboration, with requirements tracing, technical leadership, and security clearances as core elements of the work.

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading space system or missile defense software teams in production.
• Experience with weapon system requirements, design, and performance analysis for features such as engageability, interceptability, and lethality.
• Experience with DevOps principles, including automated CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, infrastructure automation, and cloud monitoring technologies
• Experience with systems architecture, requirements management, and technical baseline management
• Experience providing technical leadership for a software development team and mentoring and supervising employees within a collaborative team environment to help them grow
• Experience with reviews of complex systems in accordance with the System Engineering Technical Review (SETR) process
• Knowledge of Systems Modeling Language (SysML), DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF), and Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)
• Ability to effectively communicate, work independently and collaboratively on a cross-functional team, and demonstrate initiative to complete complex tasks to achieve program goals in a fast-paced environment
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree

Skills

Space systems leadership

DevOps CI/CD

System architecture

SysML/DoDAF/UAF

Secret clearance

Bachelor’s degree

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Python

Java

JavaScript

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a seasoned Space System Software Engineer, Lead, to guide end-to-end software development for space and missile defense programs. You will lead a team, set architecture direction, and ensure production readiness of software-enabled products in a fast-paced, agile environment.

The role emphasizes DevOps, systems engineering, and cross-functional collaboration, with requirements tracing, technical leadership, and security clearances as core elements of the work.