Risk Engineer & Risk Manager

Booz Allen; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 69,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton seeks a Risk Engineer & Risk Manager to identify, assess, and mitigate enterprise and programmatic risks across space mission programs. You will work with government and contractor partners to establish risk processes and leadership with actionable information for enterprise decisions.

This role requires 8+ years in risk/mission domains, TS/SCI clearance, and a track record in DoD acquisition or mission integration.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in risk management, program management, systems engineering, defense acquisition, or mission integration.
• Experience with DoW/USSF/DAF or national security organizations.
• Experience developing and managing risk frameworks, mitigation plans, and reporting structures.
• Experience identifying and mitigating technical, schedule, cost, and integration risks.
• Experience maintaining risk registers and executive risk reporting.
• Experience facilitating risk reviews with senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge of DoW Risk, Issue, and Opportunity management principles.
• Clearance: TS/SCI.

Responsibilities

• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks affecting space mission capabilities.
• Develop and maintain risk management frameworks and reporting methodologies.
• Provide leadership with actionable risk information for enterprise decisions.
• Collaborate with mission engineering and enterprise stakeholders to evaluate risks.
• Create risk dashboards and executive-level risk reporting using BI tools.

Skills

Risk management

Program management

Systems engineering

Defense acquisition

Mission integration

RIO risk principles

Cross-program dependencies

TS/SCI clearance

DoD/DoW knowledge

Executive risk reporting

Power BI, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence

Education

Master's degree in Systems Engineering

Master's degree in Engineering Management

Master's degree in Business Administration

PMP/PMI-RMP certification

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Maven

Warp Core

KRONOS

Power BI

SharePoint

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Join a culture of empowerment and connectivity.

Develop your craft

Learn the skills you need to accelerate your career.

Discover benefits that support your life and work.

Innovate with intention

Build mission-ready tech that protects the nation.

As a Risk Engineer & Risk Manager, you will support the client in identifying, assessing, managing, and mitigating enterprise and programmatic risks that impact space mission capabilities, systems integration, and operational execution. You will work across government, contractor, engineering, acquisition, and mission stakeholder organizations to establish risk management processes, evaluate cross-program dependencies, and provide leadership with actionable information to support enterprise-level decisions.

You will apply Department of War (DoW) risk management principles and industry best practices to identify technical, operational, programmatic, schedule, cost, resource, and integration risks. You will develop and maintain risk management frameworks, assessment methodologies, mitigation plans, executive-level reporting, and data-driven dashboards that provide visibility into risk exposure, mitigation effectiveness, and emerging mission challenges.

You will collaborate with mission engineering teams, program offices, systems engineers, and enterprise integration stakeholders to evaluate risks affecting mission threads, system-of-systems architectures, capability delivery, and end-to-end kill-chain closure. Your work will help leadership prioritize resources, resolve organizational and technical dependencies, and drive risk mitigation activities toward measurable outcomes.

Join us. The world can't wait.

You Have:

• 8+ years of experience in risk management, program management, systems engineering, defense acquisition, or mission integration
• 5+ years of experience supporting DoW, Department of the Air Force (DAF), U.S. Space Force (USSF), or a national security organization
• Experience developing, implementing, and managing risk management frameworks, processes, methodologies, and reporting structures
• Experience identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and mitigating technical, operational, programmatic, cost, schedule, resource, and integration risks
• Experience developing and maintaining risk registers, assessment matrices, mitigation plans, performance metrics, and executive-level risk reporting
• Experience facilitating risk reviews, coordinating mitigation activities, and engaging senior government and contractor stakeholders
• Knowledge of DoW Risk, Issue, and Opportunity (RIO) management principles
• Ability to evaluate cross-program dependencies, technical interfaces, capability gaps, and integration challenges that may affect enterprise mission outcomes
• TS/SCI clearance

Nice if You Have:

• Experience directly supporting SSC, SSIO, USSF, Space Force Program Executive Offices, or other national security space organizations

• Experience with enterprise risk management across multiple programs, portfolios, mission areas, or acquisition organizations

• Experience with system-of-systems engineering, mission engineering, integrated mission threads, and end-to-end kill-chain analysis
• Experience identifying and managing risks associated with system architectures, technical interfaces, data integration, interoperability, and enterprise capability dependencies, and developing automated risk dashboards, enterprise reporting tools, and data-driven decision-support products using Microsoft Power BI, SharePoint, Jira, or Confluence

• Experience with DoD acquisition processes, program execution, requirements development, resource planning, and capability portfolio management
• Experience with Palantir Foundry, Maven, Warp Core, KRONOS or other enterprise data integration and analytics platforms; experience supporting risk management boards, integrated product teams (IPTs), program reviews, executive governance forums, and senior leadership decision-making

• Experience identifying systemic organizational risks, resource constraints, funding shortfalls, staffing gaps, and competing mission priorities
• Knowledge of space mission operations, space command and control (C2), space domain awareness, space control, and ground-to-space system integration
• Master's degree in Systems Engineering, Engineering Management, Business Administration, or a related field
• PMP, PMI-RMP, or equivalent risk management certification or completion of professional training in systems engineering, program management, DoD acquisition, or enterprise risk management

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $69,400.00 to $158,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Risk Engineer & Risk Manager

The Opportunity:

As a Risk Engineer & Risk Manager, you will support the client in identifying, assessing, managing, and mitigating enterprise and programmatic risks that impact space mission capabilities, systems integration, and operational execution. You will work across government, contractor, engineering, acquisition, and mission stakeholder organizations to establish risk management processes, evaluate cross-program dependencies, and provide leadership with actionable information to support enterprise-level decisions.

You will apply Department of War (DoW) risk management principles and industry best practices to identify technical, operational, programmatic, schedule, cost, resource, and integration risks. You will develop and maintain risk management frameworks, assessment methodologies, mitigation plans, executive-level reporting, and data-driven dashboards that provide visibility into risk exposure, mitigation effectiveness, and emerging mission challenges.

You will collaborate with mission engineering teams, program offices, systems engineers, and enterprise integration stakeholders to evaluate risks affecting mission threads, system-of-systems architectures, capability delivery, and end-to-end kill-chain closure. Your work will help leadership prioritize resources, resolve organizational and technical dependencies, and drive risk mitigation activities toward measurable outcomes.

Join us. The world can't wait.

You Have:

• 8+ years of experience in risk management, program management, systems engineering, defense acquisition, or mission integration

• 5+ years of experience supporting DoW, Department of the Air Force (DAF), U.S. Space Force (USSF), or a national security organization

• Experience developing, implementing, and managing risk management frameworks, processes, methodologies, and reporting structures

• Experience identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and mitigating technical, operational, programmatic, cost, schedule, resource, and integration risks
• Experience developing and maintaining risk registers, assessment matrices, mitigation plans, performance metrics, and executive-level risk reporting
• Experience facilitating risk reviews, coordinating mitigation activities, and engaging senior government and contractor stakeholders
• Knowledge of DoW Risk, Issue, and Opportunity (RIO) management principles
• Ability to evaluate cross-program dependencies, technical interfaces, capability gaps, and integration challenges that may affect enterprise mission outcomes
• TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor's degree

Nice if You Have:

• Experience directly supporting SSC, SSIO, USSF, Space Force Program Executive Offices, or other national security space organizations

• Experience with enterprise risk management across multiple programs, portfolios, mission areas, or acquisition organizations

• Experience with system-of-systems engineering, mission engineering, integrated mission threads, and end-to-end kill-chain analysis
• Experience identifying and managing risks associated with system architectures, technical interfaces, data integration, interoperability, and enterprise capability dependencies, and developing automated risk dashboards, enterprise reporting tools, and data-driven decision-support products using Microsoft Power BI, SharePoint, Jira, or Confluence

• Experience with DoD acquisition processes, program execution, requirements development, resource planning, and capability portfolio management
• Experience with Palantir Foundry, Maven, Warp Core, KRONOS or other enterprise data integration and analytics platforms; experience supporting risk management boards, integrated product teams (IPTs), program reviews, executive governance forums, and senior leadership decision-making

• Experience identifying systemic organizational risks, resource constraints, funding shortfalls, staffing gaps, and competing mission priorities
• Knowledge of space mission operations, space command and control (C2), space domain awareness, space control, and ground-to-space system integration
• Master's degree in Systems Engineering, Engineering Management, Business Administration, or a related field
• PMP, PMI-RMP, or equivalent risk management certification or completion of professional training in systems engineering, program management, DoD acquisition, or enterprise risk management

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $69,400.00 to $158,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model
Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership's expectations and the needs of the role.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.