Senior SIGINT Mission Engineering Lead

Job ID: 2618023
Location: Chantilly, VA, US
Date Posted: 2026-10-16
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Systems Engineer
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI_wPoly
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is seeking a Senior SIGINT Mission Engineering Lead to support a SAIC Prime NRO program focused on advancing the adoption of next-generation space and intelligence capabilities at the NRO in Chantilly, VA.
Note: The role requires an active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph.
In this highly visible SETA leadership role, you will provide technical, architectural, acquisition, and mission engineering expertise across the lifecycle of SIGINT ground hosting, mission processing, and enabling capabilities.
As a trusted advisor to Government leadership, you will help shape the future of SIGINT ground architectures, cloud modernization initiatives, mission integrations, and enterprise technology strategies. You will lead a team of SETA engineers while partnering with Government, FFRDC, and industry stakeholders to deliver innovative, scalable, and mission-focused solutions across the Ground Enterprise.
Key Responsibilities to include:

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to Government leadership on SIGINT ground architectures, mission integration, and hosting environments.
• Lead SETA engineering activities supporting command and control, mission management, mission processing, and ground enterprise modernization efforts.
• Assess technical architectures, cloud-hosting solutions, integration strategies, and acquisition approaches supporting current and future mission needs.
• Evaluate system readiness, technical risks, dependencies, and integration activities while providing actionable recommendations to Government decision-makers.
• Support onboarding, transition, and operational integration of new capabilities across Government mission environments.
• Analyze contractor technical solutions, program plans, engineering artifacts, and architecture approaches to ensure mission alignment and technical viability.
• Support development and assessment of CONOPS, requirements, test plans, acquisition documentation, engineering plans, and executive briefings.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and oversight to a team of SETA engineers supporting the acquisition program.
• Collaborate across Government, contractor, and mission partner organizations to resolve technical challenges and advance enterprise objectives.

Qualifications
Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) field and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Masters and twelve (12) years or more experience; PhD or JD and nine (9) years or more experience. Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph.
• Experience with SIGINT ground systems, hosting environments, mission processing, mission management, or related intelligence capabilities.
• Knowledge of modern cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures, including cybersecurity, Zero Trust, cloud engineering, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes/CNCF technologies, and commercial cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Experience supporting system integration, cloud migrations, tenant onboarding, capability transitions, and deployment activities.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Knowledge of mission readiness processes, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria.
• Experience supporting Government acquisition, systems engineering, technical assessments, requirements development, and risk management activities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and technical communication skills, with the ability to brief and influence senior Government and contractor stakeholders.
• Proven leadership, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to operate independently in a fast-paced mission environment.
• Familiarity with NRO, DoD, or IC space, intelligence, and national security acquisition programs.
• Ability to support CONUS and OCONUS travel (10%-20%).

Target salary range: $180,001 - $220,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .