Systems Engineering Lead - C
Stafford, VAJobSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
Most applications go out cold — see where you stand first. No sign-up to start.
You apply on the employer's site, with no Olive account needed.
Watch jobs like this. New roles like this one near Stafford, VA, by email.
Don't just apply. Show up ready.
Olive works from this exact posting.
At a glance
Olive lists jobs from US employers, including remote roles you can work from the United States.
Requirements
Credentials this posting asks for.
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 supports design reviews, technical interchange meetings, configuration control, network engineering, system safety analysis, and engineering product quality checks.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Benefits
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 3,018 open Systems Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Virginia median$131–200K/yr187 salary ranges
- US median$32–41/hr142 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 262 open Systems Engineering jobs in Virginia and 3,018 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Serco34 open
- SAIC26 open
- The MITRE Corporation15 open
- 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 2,392 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,028 of the 3,018 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.
Prepare for this role
You've read the whole posting — now see how you match it.
