Lead Systems Engineer - MBSE

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Who We Are

Lockheed Martin is a global leader in aerospace, defense, and technology solutions. Our Manassas campus is a thriving center of engineering expertise, fostering a culture that encourages creativity, excellence, and the creation of exceptional products. Our team is made up of dedicated professionals who are passionate about pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

The Work

The Submarine C5I Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) program is seeking a full-time, highly motivated Lead Systems Engineer to define and drive modeling strategy, system-of-systems integration, and agile delivery across a complex program environment. This role combines MBSE technical expertise with program coordination, boundary adjudication, team leadership, and direct customer engagement. The ideal candidate will bridge technical leadership execution with cross-enterprise facilitation and agile process support, aligning goals, managing schedules, driving process excellence, and fostering a high-performing collaborative environment.

Who You Are

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish a modeling roadmap aligned with program objectives and track associated metrics
• Prepare and present modeling status in business rhythm meetings
• Assist in implementing and managing Model Federation architectures to enable interoperability across distributed modeling teams; define version control strategies, merge protocols, and consistency validation processes to maintain integrated model integrity across the system-of-systems environment
• Lead system-of-systems engagement: define and resolve subsystem interfaces, ownership, and model consistency across the integrated architecture (boundary adjudication); establish, document, and enforce best practice guidelines for model utilization
• Coordinate model engagement meetings across the system-of-systems enterprise: set agenda topics, manage participant list, document action items, facilitate stakeholder alignment on modeling priorities, and ensure follow-through on model consistency, federation, and interface commitments. Maintain a centralized repository of meeting inputs, outcomes, and commitments
• Support JIRA Epic/Feature lifecycle: translate objectives into concrete tasking for the team by creating user stories, defining acceptance criteria, identifying risks/dependencies, prioritizing tasks to align with program milestones, and assigning tasks to the team considering capacity and skillsets
• Facilitate Agile methodology rhythms: lead increment and sprint planning, daily scrums, and retrospectives; capture process improvement items from retrospectives and work with leadership to implement where necessary

Why Join Us

Your Health, Your Wealth, Your Life

Our flexible schedules, competitive pay and comprehensive benefits enable you to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work.

Basic Qualifications

To excel in this role, you should possess the following qualifications and attributes:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret (or higher) security clearance; this position will require a government security clearance
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related field) from an accredited institution with 6+ years of related experience; or comparable experience in lieu of degree
• Hands-on proficiency in SysML v1.x and/or v2.x with demonstrated application in Cameo (or an equivalent MBSE tool)
• Demonstrated experience with requirements development, decomposition, and traceability
• Demonstrated experience leading a small team, defining work, and facilitating technical decision-making
• Project leadership experience managing scope, schedule, and deliverables
• Experience interfacing with customers or external partners; experience presenting technical solutions, managing stakeholder expectations, and integrating customer requirements into system architecture

Desired Skills

• Working knowledge of Java or C to evaluate how software implementation details impact the model and downstream artifact production
• Experience with Model Federation architectures
• Familiarity with Atlassian Jira and Confluence products, including experience with agile project planning, issue tracking, and collaboration tools
• Experience with program coordination and cross-enterprise engagement
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to interface with internal and external stakeholders with a high degree of technical and interpersonal competency
• Self-motivated with a demonstrated sense of urgency and ownership, and accountability for tasks/assignments
• Familiarity with XML, JSON, YAML data serialization formats used to store, transport, and structure data
• Familiarity with Object Oriented methodology