Chief Engineer
LMI Consulting · Washington, DC, DC, US
About this role
## Overview LMI is a digital solutions provider focused on accelerating government impact through innovation and speed—delivering commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies. LMI is seeking an **accomplished Chief Engineer** to serve as the program’s **senior technical authority** for **enterprise IT and communications capabilities** across secure facilities. ## Responsibilities - Establish the program’s **technical vision**, engineering strategy, priorities, architecture, standards, and modernization roadmap. - Serve as the **principal technical advisor** to the Program Manager, government sponsors, executive leadership, and engineering teams. - Own the **integrated technical baseline** across systems, network, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, applications, data, facilities, and operations. - Lead **architecture reviews**, design reviews, readiness reviews, technical interchange meetings, and engineering working groups. - Manage technical risks, architecture gaps, interface challenges, conflicting requirements, technical debt, and lifecycle concerns. - Direct **trade studies** (assumptions, alternatives, cost, schedule, security, risk, and operational consequences). - Ensure mission requirements remain traceable through architecture, implementation, integration, verification, validation, transition, acceptance, and operations. - Resolve cross-domain conflicts and communicate major decisions, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to stakeholders. - Establish an integrated **automation strategy** spanning engineering, cybersecurity, testing, monitoring, compliance, and operations. ## Foundational Skills - Enterprise architecture and multidisciplinary systems engineering - Requirements, interfaces, integration, verification, validation, and lifecycle management - Networking, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, applications, identity, data, and operations - Technical governance, configuration management, change control, and decision management - Reliability, availability, resilience, scalability, maintainability, and operational supportability - Security architecture (zero-trust principles), risk management, and defense in depth - Automation, observability, infrastructure as code, configuration management, and modern engineering practices - Technical risk analysis, trade studies, investment prioritization, and lifecycle cost - Executive communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, mentoring, and multidisciplinary technical leadership ## Location & Travel - **Washington, DC metro area** - **Travel:** approximately **25–50%** to support activities across multiple program locations ## Qualifications ### Required - Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field - **12+ years** progressive experience designing, integrating, modernizing, or sustaining complex enterprise IT (including **classified environments**) - Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering organizations or major initiatives across dispersed locations - Broad technical knowledge across enterprise architecture, systems, networking, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, applications, and operations - Experience leading architecture reviews, trade studies, risk assessments, integration, and major engineering decisions - Experience engineering capabilities for **SCIF** or other accredited classified environments, including multi-enclave systems and security boundaries -
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