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Responsibilities

Peraton is looking for a Director, Systems Engineering, C2, and Networks Architect to join the Corporate Growth, Enterprise Capabilities and Solutions team as one of the technical leads behind our most competitive pursuits. You will provide thought leadership and design differentiated service offerings, architectures, and technical strategies mission systems engineering, command and control, and intelligence and defense applications. These provide the people and process elements to the Peraton Labs technology developments. You will work directly alongside capture teams, growth leaders, sector CTOs, and technical SMEs from early strategic opportunity shaping through proposal submission to build solutions that win contracts and frameworks that make winning repeatable. If you are energized by high-stakes technical challenges and want to see your work translate directly into contract wins, this role was built for you.

What you'll do:

• Lead the Peraton Enterprise Capabilities and Solutions Portfolio for mission systems engineering, command and control, and intelligence and defense applications from strategy through execution, ensuring every offering is aligned to business priorities, technically sound, and built to compete across all Peraton customer's market spaces.
• Work directly with capture teams, sector growth leaders, and SMEs to shape Mission Engineering solutions from early opportunity identification through proposal submission.
• Develop technical discriminators, solution narratives, and competitive positioning materials that support capture and proposal efforts across the enterprise, with deep credibility in mission systems engineering, command and control architecture, and intelligence and defense applications.
• Design and develop scalable, reusable mission engineering service offerings, architectures, and technical frameworks that give Peraton's sector teams a competitive edge on federal pursuits.
• Continuously evolve the portfolio by analyzing capability gaps, technology readiness, and market trends across mission systems, defense acquisition, and national security requirements to identify portfolio enhancements and competitive differentiation opportunities that strengthen Peraton's position in core markets.
• Provide thought leadership and author white papers and other solution artifacts to support customer engagement efforts highlighting newly developed frameworks and Peraton Labs applicable technologies.
• Partner with sector growth teams, business stakeholders, and engineering leadership to translate market opportunities into viable, differentiated service offerings.
• Drive the design and architecture of services across the portfolio. Ensure each service is fully defined with supporting sales assets, cost models, and solution guides that equip sector teams to sell and deliver.
• Present technical strategies, mission architecture roadmaps, and solution recommendations to customers, capture teams, and executive leadership with the clarity and confidence to drive decisions.
• Engage with key customers, industry partners, and technology vendors to stay ahead of evolving mission requirements, emerging defense capabilities, and competitive dynamics across Peraton's national security customer base.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 16+ years of industry experience 
• Deep expertise in systems engineering principles and methodologies aligned to INCOSE and DoD systems engineering frameworks, with demonstrated experience applying them across the full defense acquisition lifecycle
• Proven experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) using tools such as Cameo, Rhapsody, or MATLAB/Simulink to design, analyze, and communicate complex mission system architectures
• Demonstrated experience designing and integrating C4ISR systems and mission applications, with working knowledge of DoDAF viewpoints and their application to mission architecture development
• Working knowledge of interoperability standards including and tactical data links such as Link 16, and experience designing systems that operate across multi-domain environments
• Experience with real-time and embedded systems engineering for mission-critical applications, including sensor fusion and multi-domain data integration across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains
• Demonstrated experience with digital engineering practices and model-based design applied across defense acquisition programs
• Direct experience supporting federal government customers in a contractor environment, with a working understanding of mission requirements, acquisition processes, and the competitive federal market
• Proven experience contributing to competitive federal pursuits, including technical solution development, architecture design, or competitive positioning in support of capture or proposal efforts
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex mission engineering concepts into compelling solution narratives for capture teams, executive leadership, and government evaluators
• A demonstrated bias for action and a track record of delivering technical work that contributed directly to competitive wins
• US citizenship and ability to obtain a Top Secret security clearance

Desired Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph eligibility
• Direct experience in capture management, proposal development, or technical volume leadership on large-scale, competitive federal mission systems or defense acquisition bids
• Experience with Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) architecture, cross-domain integration, and the technical frameworks that enable multi-domain operations at scale
• Familiarity with autonomous systems design and human-machine teaming architectures for contested and operationally demanding environments
• Experience with space systems architecture including proliferated low earth orbit (pLEO) constellation integration and space-ground link design for mission applications
• Working knowledge of AI-enabled mission systems and algorithm-driven decision support architectures operating at the tactical edge in degraded or contested environments
• Experience designing resilient and survivable communications architectures for denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) operational environments
• Familiarity with digital twin modeling applied to mission systems testing, simulation, and operational readiness assessment across the defense acquisition lifecycle
• Working knowledge of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) and open systems architecture principles aligned to DoD acquisition policy and program office expectations
• Experience presenting mission system architectures and technical solutions directly to senior government customers, program offices, or operational commands
• Prior experience developing competitive positioning materials, technical discriminators, or solution playbooks that supported pursuit efforts in the federal mission systems or defense market
• Relevant certifications such as INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP), defense acquisition certifications aligned to DAU or DoD 5000 series programs, PMP, or relevant domain-specific defense technology credentials

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range$190,000 - $304,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.EEOEEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.Employment Type: FULL_TIME