Senior Missile Systems Architect & Technical Leader

Jobtailor; Alabama; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Senior Technical Leader in Alabama to direct missile design, development, integration, and testing. You will oversee a multi-disciplinary team and ensure engineering-process discipline across all domains, including MBSE, avionics, lab and flight-test activities.

The role requires leading cross-functional IPTs, managing schedules and KPIs, and interfacing with customers and leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 16+ yrs, or Master’s with 14+, or PhD with 12+ yrs relevant experience.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must have an active U.S. Government Secret Clearance within the last 6 years.
• Ability to obtain Top Secret Clearance and SAP approval.
• 12+ years leading cross-functional engineering teams on missile/aerospace programs.
• Hands-on MBSE, PLM/CAD, configuration management, and DoD standards.
• Experience interpreting physics-based modeling and simulation results.
• Proven ability to build and lead high-performing teams.
• Strong business acumen and cross-function collaboration skills.
• Preferred: cruise missile design, development, testing, and transition to production.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall technical leadership for missile design, development, integration, and test.
• Manage technical performance and provide oversight to a multi-disciplinary engineering team.
• Ensure adherence to sound engineering processes across disciplines.
• Lead and mentor multi-disciplinary IPTs across systems, air-vehicle, mission, software, test, manufacturing, supply chain, and mission assurance.
• Own end-to-end system design, integration, and verification.
• Oversee architecture, requirements, MBSE, hardware/software development, avionics integration, lab and flight-test activities, and data analysis.
• Maintain the technical baseline and Integrated Master Schedule.
• Track KPIs, technical performance measures, and KPPs.
• Ensure compliance with safety, airworthiness, quality, and DoD standards.
• Chair and lead major technical reviews (SRR, SFR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRR).
• Serve as primary technical liaison with customers, subcontractors, and senior leadership.
• Deliver briefings and status updates.
• Identify, assess, and manage technical risks, issues, and opportunities.
• Drive technical execution for major program events.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cross-functional leadership

System design

DoD standards compliance

Agile processes

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Master’s degree in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

MBSE tools

PLM/CAD

Jira/Confluence

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Senior Technical Leader in Alabama to direct missile design, development, integration, and testing. You will oversee a multi-disciplinary team and ensure engineering-process discipline across all domains, including MBSE, avionics, lab and flight-test activities.

The role requires leading cross-functional IPTs, managing schedules and KPIs, and interfacing with customers and leadership.