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Systems Engineering Lead - C

First Division Consulting

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Quantico, VA
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Secret clearanceBachelor's degree

Job overview

The Systems Engineering Lead provides senior systems engineering leadership for Solutions & Integration support. The role helps Government engineers assess designs, technical deliverables, and engineering changes through requirements traceability and decision-ready technical analysis. The position is contingent upon contract award and includes supporting engineering reviews, system safety analysis, baseline changes, and Agile Release Trains.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Technical AnalysisSystems EvaluationInterface EvaluationECP ReviewEngineering RecommendationsMarine Corps C2 Systems EngineeringCross-System IntegrationTechnical ReviewsSafety AnalysisNetwork Architecture Analysis

Qualifications

16 Years Systems Engineering ExperienceBachelor's DegreeSecret ClearanceBackground InvestigationCAC RequirementsNetwork RequirementsFacility RequirementsClassified Access Requirements

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave
401(k) Match

Full job description

Come Join Our Team! First Division Consulting (FirstDiv) provides program management, acquisition, logistics, field service representative, explosive ordnance disposal, and personnel support services to Department of Defense and Federal Government Agencies. We are a Small Business Administration certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and a Small Disadvantaged Business. If you are looking for a company who has an overall rating on Glassdoor of 4.8 and who puts their people first, then continue to read below and join the FirstDiv team!

**Position is contingent upon contract award

The Systems Engineering Lead provides senior systems engineering leadership for Solutions & Integration support. You will help Government engineers assess designs, technical deliverables, and engineering changes with clear requirements traceability and decision-ready technical analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate equipment designs and proposed hardware and software engineering change proposals (ECPs) against system and subsystem requirements.

  • Review specifications, interface control documents, test plans and reports, engineering analyses, network designs, requirements, and drawings from vendors and System Support Activities.

  • Develop technical briefs and white papers explaining alternatives, assumptions, and recommended changes.

  • Support design reviews, technical interchange meetings, IPTs, and Configuration Control Boards (CCBs) with agendas, briefs, and discussion records.

  • Review network engineering and architecture documents and recommend updates based on systems engineering events.

  • Prepare engineering and system safety analysis supporting baseline changes and risk mitigation; perform final quality checks on engineering products and support Agile Release Trains (ARTs).

Requirements

Required qualifications

  • 16 years of experience performing professional services associated with systems engineering.

  • Bachelor’s Degree.

  • Ability to lead technical analysis, evaluate systems and interfaces, review ECPs, and present defensible engineering recommendations.

  • Meet applicable background investigation, CAC, network, facility, and duty-specific classified-access requirements.

  • Secret Clearance

Preferred qualifications

Experience leading Marine Corps C2 systems engineering, cross-system integration, technical reviews, and safety or network-architecture analysis.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, STD, LTD, holidays, Paid Time Off to include Maternity/Paternity leave, and 401(k) plan with company match.

FirstDiv is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal opportunity to all applicants and employees in full compliance with all applicable state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other class protected by applicable state or federal law.

How this job compares

Set against the 3,036 open Systems Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Virginia median$131–200K/yr183 salary ranges
  • US median$31–41/hr149 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 255 open Systems Engineering jobs in Virginia and 3,036 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 16 years of experience — more than three in four Systems Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 2,415 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,029 of the 3,036 open Systems Engineering jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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