Staff Systems Engineer — Global Field Deployments

Orbis; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Orbis Operations is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to support a government program in the Middle East. You will lead data integrations across Orbis data governance and analysis products, embedding with customer teams to deliver secure, real-time data sharing for mission-critical contexts.

The role requires ramping up quickly, making sound tradeoffs under pressure, and mentoring teams while driving complex solutions in dynamic environments. International travel up to 50% is required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of systems engineering experience.
• 8+ years of federated data architecture design for defense, national security, or government environments, including canonical data model development and ICD authoring.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 50% of the time.
• Experience with API development, data modeling, and system integration patterns.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across distributed, cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on high-priority initiatives across teams to drive projects to completion.
• Navigate ambiguous problem spaces, define technical approaches, and trade off between speed, quality, and scope.
• Design and implement systems architecture that connects customer endpoints, sensors, and external systems to our platform.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and customer stakeholders to translate business needs into working solutions.
• Identify technical risks early and develop mitigation strategies.
• Support teams by providing guidance and clearing technical obstacles.
• Communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ensure successful handoffs and knowledge transfer as projects transition to long-term ownership.

Skills

Systems engineering

Data architecture

API development

Data modeling

Cross-team collaboration

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Orbis Operations is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to support a government program in the Middle East. You will lead data integrations across Orbis data governance and analysis products, embedding with customer teams to deliver secure, real-time data sharing for mission-critical contexts.

The role requires ramping up quickly, making sound tradeoffs under pressure, and mentoring teams while driving complex solutions in dynamic environments. International travel up to 50% is required.