MOSA Systems Architect & Integration Lead - Remote

System One; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

System One seeks an experienced MOSA System Integration Lead / Architect to advise on strategy, policy, and technical dimensions of MOSA across Army programs. You will leverage MBSE and digital thread integration to define interfaces for rapid component interchangeability, ensuring interoperability and open standards adoption.

The role requires senior-level systems engineering expertise, knowledge of DoD acquisition, and the ability to engage with senior leaders and industry partners to

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Systems, Electrical, or Computer Engineering (or equivalent technical industry experience).
• 10+ years in Systems Engineering or Data Architecture with a focus on Architecture Patterns.
• Ability to lead the development of innovative approaches in modernizing systems engineering practices.
• Deep familiarity with ISO/IEC 15288 and DoD 5000 series acquisition policies.
• Proven ability to integrate requirements management with architectural models to ensure end-to-end traceability.
• Experience advising data rights strategies to ensure long-term competitive sourcing and avoid vendor lock-in.
• Knowledge of conformance tools and verification suites to ensure modularity throughout the Systems Engineering V-model.
• Experience with MBSE tools (e.g., No Magic Cameo, IBM Rational Rhapsody, Sparx Enterprise Architect).
• Understands MOSA as a means to acquisition freedom and warfighting advantage — not a compliance exercise — and can articulate first principles to skeptical audiences.
• Understands why buy-in is hard — the incentive misalignments, business-model tensions, technical trade-offs, and cultural inertia that cause MOSA to stall or become paper compliance.
• Has enough technical and programmatic grounding to know when a modular boundary is real versus theoretical, and to engage credibly on architecture, interfaces, data rights, integration, and acquisition strategy.
• Familiarity with both acquisition strategy/policy and the technical/programmatic realities with the ability to move between them credibly.
• A practical understanding of MOSA principles and real-world barriers to their adoption.
• Working knowledge of DoD/Army acquisition and contracting fundamentals, including data rights and IP considerations.
• Ability to influence and build consensus among senior leaders, technical experts, and Industry.
• Strong communication skills across audiences, from senior leaders to working-level engineers.
• Sound judgment and comfort operating with ambiguity in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to make suggestions on next steps and tasks without.
• Active Secret.

Responsibilities

• Advise the Army MOSA lead on strategy, policy translation, and implementation across the acquisition enterprise.
• Diagnose barriers to MOSA adoption and develop practical, low-bureaucracy approaches to overcome them.
• Support development of implementation guidance, governance frameworks, seam/architecture management practices, modular contracting approaches, and data/module-description standards.
• Translate senior-level policy intent into actionable guidance for the acquisition community — and translate program-level realities back up to inform policy.
• Build and sustain buy-in across Government and Industry through credible, two-sided engagement.
• Provide technical direction to developmental personnel supporting MOSA workstreams as needed.
• Translate complex Army requirements into modular solutions using SysML. Develop model libraries and profiles to serve as the Authoritative Source of Truth for system-of-systems.
• Identify logical boundaries and system interfaces to enable seamless component interchangeability.
• Apply open standards (e.g., SOSA, DoDAF, and UAF) to practical hardware/software builds. Draft and refine DoD systems engineering guidance and technical criteria for MOSA implementation across Programs of Record.
• Design and manage digital threads, integrating MBSE with Product Lifecycle Management and DevSecOps stacks.
• Conduct trade-off studies and "what-if" assessments to balance modularity benefits against rapid deployment needs; defend MOSA business cases for milestone decisions.
• Support the development of technical assessment frameworks and performance metrics to evaluate MOSA compliance throughout the systems engineering V-model.
• Facilitate or engage in technical exchange meetings, potentially with various PAEs to drive digital convergence.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Data Architecture

MBSE

SysML

Architecture Patterns

DoD 5000

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Acquisition policy

Open-architecture

Education

BS/MS in Systems/EE/CE

Tools

No Magic Cameo

IBM Rational Rhapsody

Sparx Enterprise Architect

Job description

System One seeks an experienced MOSA System Integration Lead / Architect to advise on strategy, policy, and technical dimensions of MOSA across Army programs. You will leverage MBSE and digital thread integration to define interfaces for rapid component interchangeability, ensuring interoperability and open standards adoption.

The role requires senior-level systems engineering expertise, knowledge of DoD acquisition, and the ability to engage with senior leaders and industry partners to