Hiring: SIGINT Ground Mission Engineering & Integration Lead Company: SAIC Location: Chantilly, VA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 13:42:54 Employment Type: Full-time / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Agile, Azure, CI/CD, Cloud Native, Confluence, Jira, Kubernetes, Project Management, Systems Engineering, Zero Trust About the job Experience: •Active and current Top Secret/SCI with Poly. •Technical knowledge and experience with modern hybrid and cloud-based architectures with working knowledge in the areas of Cybersecurity •Commercial Cloud Vendors •Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) services. Required Skills: •SAIC is seeking a SIGINT Ground Mission Engineering & Integration Lead to serve as a team lead supporting a fast‑paced and highly dynamic SIGINT System Program Office in Chantilly, VA. •This role may require short‑term and extended CONUS/OCONUS (10% -20%) travel to Government and contractor locations to support onsite assessments, integration activities, and stakeholder engagements. •Serves as one of the Government’s trusted technical advisors for SIGINT ground mission capabilities in the areas of technical architecture solutions that enable the hosting and operations of command and control, mission management, and mission processing systems. •Assist the government in identifying mission needs and opportunities in developing concepts of operations and optimization strategies, in assessing baseline change impacts, and in developing requirements, to influence current and future ground technical hosting and service design, development, operations and acquisition efforts. •Play a key role in onboarding, transitioning and integrating new systems into operations, working closely with government mission customers to ensure new capabilities are fully leveraged to meet mission objectives. This role includes engaging with site and operations personnel at various government sites (travel required). •Assess onboarding and integration activities in the context of cross-system dependencies (technical, resource, and schedule) and present unbiased analysis-based findings and recommendations to government managers. •Provide “ground truth” technical assessment of project or system reviews, milestones, and/or decision gates; identify risks, issues, opportunities and mitigations; represent the government customer’s interests with other stakeholders. •Support government requests for system engineering and integrations studies and assessments, process analysis and design, project management assessments, etc.; provide analysis and recommendations, and take necessary actions needed to follow through on accepted recommendations. Qualifications: •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. Compensation: •$160,001 - $200,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!