Leads the architecture, integration, and delivery of complex technology solutions for federal civilian and state and local government customers. Defines technical visions, requirements, system architectures, interfaces, data architectures, verification strategies, and implementation plans. Coordinates architects, engineers, subject matter experts, and proposal teams; evaluates risks and tradeoffs; integrates security and compliance; supports capture and proposal efforts; and ensures solutions satisfy technical, schedule, cost, and mission constraints.
SAIC's Civilian Business Group is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Chief Engineer to drive customer mission success, solutions maturity, and integration of numerous technologies across multiple State and Local customer accounts and a diverse group of federal civilian customers and agencies.
Roles and Responsibilities
The candidate will:
- Architect and recommend detailed, innovative solutions approaches that implement a technical "vision" to ensure customer mission success
- Partner with Accounts and customer stakeholders to identify opportunities, mature opportunity definition, and capture solution objectives
- Lead development of concepts of operations, requirements definition, analysis and engineering, system architecture, system analysis and design, interfaces, data architectures, verification and validation, system integration, system and operational performance analysis, and life cycle cost and estimation procedures.
- Support technical review and assessment of readiness of technical solutions in formal and informal reviews
- Perform detailed technical analysis to identify risks, issues, requirements, and opportunities with solution implementation, including tradeoff analyses and analysis of alternatives to solve complex technical problems
- Integrate security and compliance of solutions through the development life cycle
- Coordinate activities of engineering leads, solution architects and/or SMEs to develop and deliver solutions in proposal phase and in contract execution
- Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of requirements into total systems solutions that address technical, schedule, cost, and customer organizational constraints
Required Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Security or equivalent and eighteen (18) years or more of related experience; Masters and sixteen (16) years or more experience; may accept additional experience in lieu of degree.
- Minimum ten (10) years of solutions development and implementation required
- Minimum five (5) years of technical team leadership of high-performance teams required
- Must have successful experience bidding and winning work with Civilian Government agencies or the equivalent
- Advanced knowledge of software engineering principles, methods, and techniques to include Agile/Scrum, SAFe/Agile, DevSecOps, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) methods
- Hands-on experience in solution development in capture and proposal environments and implementing solutions in ongoing programs, including delivery of the final product
- Must have experience architecting in one or more technical domains, to include, but not limited to IT infrastructure, System/Application Development and management, IT Service Delivery, cybersecurity, cloud management, data science, & digital/business transformation.
- Must have excellent communication and writing skills with the ability to produce finished content for delivery to customers, and meet with them regarding SAIC's capabilities, services and solutions. This also includes proposal development, writing, and reviewing skills and working effectively with account management.
- Must have a track record of working in a team-based environment through effective collaboration with multiple (pre-sales or pre-award) disciplines including, but not limited to; account management, business development, capture, proposal, pricing, competitive intelligence, contracts, subcontracting/vendor management, program management, recruiting, solution & product development, and other team members involved in optimizing our proposed solutions.
- Must be able to multi-task across several concurrent efforts.
- Must be able to identify technical staff skills to support pre-award activities.
- Must be able to lead and coordinate work assignments of the account, proposal, technical, and support team members throughout the pre-award process.
- Must have experience with the Federal Government procurement processes; desired experience includes the newer and more “commercial” derivatives of the process (e.g. OTAs, PTAG, agile contracting, etc.)
- Must have ability to empower and grow subordinates as well as communicate effectively to senior and executive management
Required Clearance
- US Citizenship
We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.
Similar Jobs
Fitness • Healthtech • Retail • Pharmaceutical
Leads enterprise Epic architecture for Healthy Planet, care coordination, STARS/HEDIS reporting, population health, and risk adjustment. Designs workflows and data models across Epic applications, Clarity, Caboodle, registries, reporting tools, payer data, and interoperability platforms. Translates CMS and NCQA requirements into Epic solutions, oversees integrations and vendors, mentors technical teams, and presents roadmaps to executive stakeholders. Requires extensive healthcare IT and Epic experience, population health expertise, and familiarity with value-based care, ACOs, FHIR, and HL7.
Top Skills:
CaboodleCare EverywhereClarityEpicEpic Healthy PlanetFhirHl7Reporting WorkbenchSlicerdicer
Automotive • Big Data • Information Technology • Robotics • Software • Transportation • Manufacturing
Lead modernization of General Motors’ embedded-software build infrastructure by migrating legacy Make and shell workflows to Bazel. Design reusable rules, toolchains, platforms, and repository standards; integrate build systems with CI/CD, testing, release, security, and artifact workflows; and improve reproducibility, performance, reliability, and developer productivity. The role also involves mentoring engineers, guiding strategy, measuring migration outcomes, and evaluating AI-enabled engineering workflows.
Top Skills:
BazelCi/CdCross-CompilationEmbedded SystemsFirmwareMakePythonShellSoftware-Defined VehiclesToolchains
Automotive • Big Data • Information Technology • Robotics • Software • Transportation • Manufacturing
Provides field-based automotive diagnostic, repair, and technical support to GM dealerships. Resolves escalated vehicle issues, supports potential repurchase cases, evaluates dealership service readiness, trains dealer personnel, manages dispatch cases, and communicates product-quality findings to GM engineering and service teams. The role also supports warranty-cost reduction, dealer comeback processes, customer relationships, arbitration matters, and technician recruitment while traveling frequently throughout the assigned territory.
Top Skills:
Automotive Diagnostic EquipmentLan/WanMS OfficePicoscopeTechline Diagnostic Tools
What you need to know about the Austin Tech Scene
Austin has a diverse and thriving tech ecosystem thanks to home-grown companies like Dell and major campuses for IBM, AMD and Apple. The state’s flagship university, the University of Texas at Austin, is known for its engineering school, and the city is known for its annual South by Southwest tech and media conference. Austin’s tech scene spans many verticals, but it’s particularly known for hardware, including semiconductors, as well as AI, biotechnology and cloud computing. And its food and music scene, low taxes and favorable climate has made the city a destination for tech workers from across the country.
Key Facts About Austin Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 180,500; 13.7% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: Dell, IBM, AMD, Apple, Alphabet
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, hardware, cloud computing, software, healthtech
- Funding Landscape: $4.5 billion in VC funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Live Oak Ventures, Austin Ventures, Hinge Capital, Gigafund, KdT Ventures, Next Coast Ventures, Silverton Partners
- Research Centers and Universities: University of Texas, Southwestern University, Texas State University, Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Texas Advanced Computing Center
