Senior Systems-of-Systems Subject-Matter Expert (SME) Lead

Location: Washington, DC, US; 20% travel, including remote and rugged areas. U.S. citizenship is required, and the ability to obtain a CBP Background Investigation is required; active CBP BI is preferred.

Target salary range: $180,000–$205,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global provides digital solutions, commercial-grade platforms, and mission-ready AI for federal agencies, serving defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors.

What you will do

• Act as PMOD’s senior systems-of-systems engineering and enterprise integration advisor for operational technology initiatives across USBP and CBP.
• Develop interoperable, scalable, resilient, and sustainable integration approaches across programs, portfolios, and technology domains.
• Lead the integration of sensors, AI-enabled analytics, communications and infrastructure, data platforms, command-and-control applications, and unmanned systems.
• Assess dependencies, interfaces, interoperability needs, technical constraints, capability gaps, lifecycle risks, cybersecurity, data exchange, and sustainment responsibilities.
• Develop architecture artifacts, reference architectures, interface standards, integration roadmaps, governance processes, decision frameworks, technical recommendations, and executive briefings.
• Support acquisition planning, requirements development, technical evaluations, verification and validation, testing, deployment, operational transition, modernization, and sustainment across government and technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a CBP Background Investigation are required.
• Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, information technology, engineering management, operations research, or a related technical discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in systems engineering, systems integration, enterprise architecture, technical program management, operational technology delivery, or related disciplines.
• 5+ years leading complex, multi-system integration initiatives in federal, defense, homeland security, law-enforcement, transportation, or another mission-focused environment.
• Experience applying systems-of-systems engineering principles to plan, design, integrate, test, deploy, and sustain complex technology capabilities.
• Experience coordinating across multiple programs, portfolios, vendors, government stakeholders, and technical teams, and managing enterprise-level dependencies and outcomes.
• Experience identifying technical, operational, programmatic, and lifecycle risks and developing practical mitigation strategies.
• Experience supporting technology acquisition, requirements development, systems engineering planning, technical evaluations, architecture development, or lifecycle management.
• Experience preparing executive-level technical briefings, decision papers, roadmaps, integration strategies, or architecture products and leading cross-functional technical teams.
• Strong knowledge of systems engineering lifecycle processes, systems-of-systems engineering, interoperability, interfaces, technical governance, integration planning, and lifecycle management.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as DoDAF, FEAF, TOGAF, or comparable methodologies, plus the ability to develop and interpret operational views, capability maps, system context diagrams, interface-control documentation, data flows, roadmaps, and decision frameworks.
• Experience assessing systems involving sensors, communications, networks, data platforms, software applications, analytics, cloud or edge infrastructure, and unmanned or autonomous capabilities.
• Understanding of cybersecurity, data management, privacy, infrastructure, and operational considerations affecting complex integration and sustainment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills, with the ability to translate technical issues into actionable recommendations for executive and nontechnical audiences.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in a related technical discipline.
• INCOSE CSEP, ESEP, comparable systems engineering certification, or an enterprise architecture certification such as TOGAF, DoDAF, or FEAF.
• Experience supporting USBP, CBP, DHS, the Department of Defense, federal law enforcement, or other complex operational organizations.
• Experience with field-deployed technologies in remote, austere, geographically dispersed, or infrastructure-constrained environments.
• Experience with model-based systems engineering, digital engineering, architecture repositories, simulation, digital twins, systems-integration governance, technical review boards, architecture reviews, interface management, or engineering standards.
• Experience supporting acquisition strategies, source-selection evaluations, vendor management, performance measures, contractual deliverables, capability roadmaps, modernization strategies, technical-debt assessments, lifecycle-cost analyses, or sustainment planning.
• Technical publications, conference presentations, standards or engineering guidance, mentoring, or thought leadership in complex systems engineering.
• Active CBP Background Investigation.

Culture & Benefits

• Work supporting federal missions in a collaborative, technology-focused environment.
• Exposure to defense, space, healthcare, energy, homeland security, and government technology initiatives.
• Travel is approximately 20% and may include remote and rugged areas.