Lead Systems Engineer

Location: Ashburn, VA, USA; hybrid with onsite work in Ashburn four days per week during the first year and as mission needs require. Candidates must be within the greater Washington, DC area or commutable to Ashburn.

Salary: $112,000–$168,000 per year

Company

hirify.global delivers federal enterprise IT services, data, and technology capabilities to agencies supporting national health and safety missions.

What you will do

• Lead development and maintenance of enterprise systems modernization roadmaps, including target states, transition strategies, planning epochs, dependencies, milestones, and timelines.
• Assess current enterprise environments, capability gaps, legacy constraints, technology opportunities, and modernization alternatives.
• Translate mission objectives and stakeholder needs into capability, functional, and system requirements and actionable engineering plans.
• Manage cross-system dependencies, sequencing constraints, critical-path activities, risks, and schedule impacts across modernization initiatives.
• Coordinate with program management, architects, technical leads, delivery teams, government mission owners, and operational users.
• Support trade studies, feasibility assessments, gap analyses, risk assessments, architecture decisions, and investment recommendations.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant professional experience, including substantial experience in systems engineering, enterprise IT, systems integration, architecture, or technology modernization.
• Experience supporting U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the National Targeting Center, or U.S. Border Patrol mission environments.
• Experience supporting large-scale federal enterprise IT services, systems modernization, or systems integration programs.
• Experience with integrated schedule planning, dependency analysis, milestone management, risk identification, and cross-team coordination.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, including communication of technical issues and trade-offs to technical and executive audiences.
• Ability to collaborate with government customers, program management, enterprise architects, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline is required.
• Active CBP clearance or DoD Top Secret (TS) clearance is required.
• All candidates must be within the greater Washington, DC area or commutable to Ashburn, VA.

Nice to have

• Experience developing multi-year modernization roadmaps organized into planning horizons or epochs.
• Understanding of federal enterprise IT modernization, including cloud platforms, application modernization, data integration, cybersecurity, identity management, and infrastructure transformation.
• Familiarity with agile delivery, DevSecOps, enterprise portfolio planning, and program management processes.
• Relevant systems engineering, enterprise architecture, or program management certifications.
• Active CBP clearance or active DoD TS or TS/SCI clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Work is performed mainly in a routine office environment with onsite attendance in Ashburn four days per week during the first year and as mission needs require.
• Flexible availability for extended working hours may be required.
• Pre-employment screening is required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be available for qualified individuals with disabilities.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer.