Lead Systems Engineer - Agile Flight & Air Traffic Tech

Koitecc Solutions; Ashburn, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos in Reston, Virginia, seeks a Lead Systems Engineer to join an Agile/SAFe team delivering air traffic and flight service systems in a highly regulated environment. You will translate regulatory requirements into testable system capabilities, maintain traceability, and collaborate with product owners, architects, software engineers, testers, and DevSecOps.

Requirements include a 4–8 year bachelor’s degree (or 2–6 years with a master’s), Agile experience, and the ability to obtain a Public

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 4–8 years of related experience, or a Master’s with 2–6 years.
• Experience in Agile development environments, methodologies and tools.
• Experience performing systems engineering across the lifecycle: requirements, decomposition, traceability, integration, verification.
• Strong attention to detail in highly regulated or mission-critical environments.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and refine system capabilities.
• Experience preparing and maintaining technical documentation and artifacts.
• Familiarity with software concepts, architectures, interfaces, and integration considerations.
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication; cloud-based system knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Review FAA requirements, advisory circulars, and regulations to extract intent and acceptance criteria.
• Translate regulatory needs into testable system requirements, features, and criteria.
• Refine backlog items with Product Owners and development teams for traceability.
• Engage with stakeholders to identify use cases aligned with workflows and validation readiness.
• Decompose high-level requirements into measurable capability statements with FAA compliance traceability.
• Maintain requirements traceability between needs, architecture artifacts, tasks, and verification.
• Support design discussions by evaluating approaches, trade-offs, and risks.
• Prepare system specifications, interfaces, use cases, workflows, verification plans, and traceability.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, reviews, and system inspections.
• Coordinate with software, test, cybersecurity, and DevSecOps teams to implement and validate requirements.
• Assist in verification/validation strategies and customer demonstrations.
• Capture design decisions, performance trade-offs, compliance rationales, and risk assessments.

Skills

Agile development

Systems engineering

Requirements analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical documentation

Cloud-based systems

Public Trust suitability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree

Tools

Jira

Cameo

DOORS

Jama

Job description

Leidos in Reston, Virginia, seeks a Lead Systems Engineer to join an Agile/SAFe team delivering air traffic and flight service systems in a highly regulated environment. You will translate regulatory requirements into testable system capabilities, maintain traceability, and collaborate with product owners, architects, software engineers, testers, and DevSecOps.

Requirements include a 4–8 year bachelor’s degree (or 2–6 years with a master’s), Agile experience, and the ability to obtain a Public