Responsibilities
LMI is seeking an accomplished Chief Engineer to serve as the program's senior technical authority for enterprise IT and communications capabilities across secure facilities. The Chief Engineer will establish the engineering vision, maintain the integrated technical baseline, and align systems, network, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, applications, data, and operations around a coherent solution. This execution-oriented leadership role supports a fast-paced, milestone-driven prototype with near-term commitments.
Success requires broad technical credibility, disciplined governance, executive communication, and balanced judgment across mission, security, resilience, cost, schedule, and lifecycle risk.
Primary duties include
- 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.