Senior Enterprise Engineer & Technical Authority

Logistics Management Institute; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 125,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Logistics Management Institute in the Washington, DC area seeks a seasoned Chief Engineer to serve as the program's senior technical authority for enterprise IT and secure facilities. You will set the engineering vision, align systems, networks, cybersecurity, cloud, and data into a coherent, actionable roadmap while guiding governance and risk decisions.

This role requires TS/SCI eligibility, 12+ years of integrated IT experience, and proven leadership across dispersed teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of progressive experience designing, integrating, modernizing, or sustaining complex enterprise IT, including classified environments.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering organizations or major initiatives across dispersed locations.
• Broad technical knowledge across enterprise architecture, systems, networking, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, applications, and operations.
• Experience leading architecture reviews, trade studies, risk assessments, integration, and major engineering decisions.
• Experience engineering capabilities for SCIF or other accredited classified environments, including multi-enclave systems and security boundaries.
• Working knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (NIST SP 800-37 / 800-53) and advising senior leaders.
• Active Top Secret Clearance (SCI eligibility).
• Excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing for senior decision makers.

Responsibilities

• Establish the program's technical vision, engineering strategy, priorities, architecture, standards, and modernization roadmap.
• Serve as the principal technical advisor to the Program Manager, government sponsors, executive leadership, and engineering teams.
• Own the integrated technical baseline across systems, network, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, applications, data, facilities, and operations.
• Lead architecture reviews, design reviews, readiness reviews, technical interchange meetings, and engineering working groups.
• Manage technical risks, architecture gaps, interface challenges, conflicting requirements, technical debt, and lifecycle concerns.
• Direct trade studies addressing assumptions, alternatives, cost, schedule, security, risk, and operational consequences.
• Ensure mission requirements remain traceable through architecture, implementation, integration, verification, validation, transition, acceptance, and operations.
• Resolve cross-domain conflicts and communicate major decisions, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Establish an integrated automation strategy spanning engineering, cybersecurity, testing, monitoring, compliance, and operations.

Skills

Executive communication

Technical leadership

Risk assessment

Mentoring

Cross-domain coordination

Decision analysis

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Logistics Management Institute in the Washington, DC area seeks a seasoned Chief Engineer to serve as the program's senior technical authority for enterprise IT and secure facilities. You will set the engineering vision, align systems, networks, cybersecurity, cloud, and data into a coherent, actionable roadmap while guiding governance and risk decisions.

This role requires TS/SCI eligibility, 12+ years of integrated IT experience, and proven leadership across dispersed teams.