Chief Engineer (Program)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serve as the overall technical authority for the contract or program, responsible for the integrity, feasibility, and quality of all engineering solutions.
- Ensure all technical deliverables meet contractual requirements, service level agreements (SLAs), performance objectives, and applicable compliance standards.
- Lead technical decision-making for scope changes, tradeoffs, risk mitigation, and issue resolution throughout the program lifecycle.
- Ensure tracking and transparency of technical work, schedules, reviews, and meetings.
- Identify opportunities for cross-program reuse and standardization, and feed lessons learned back into enterprise engineering practices.
- Partner with enterprise engineering, security, DevOps, and architecture teams to ensure program solutions scale beyond a single contract.
- Own technical risk management for the program, including architectural, security, performance, and integration risks.
- Ensure engineering processes support high reliability, security, scalability, and maintainability.
- Provide escalation and resolution for complex technical issues impacting cost, schedule, or mission success.
- Typically manage a department or small sub-function for the organization or a job function for a small to mid-sized business, which includes multiple teams led by managers and/or supervisors.

May also lead through influence of other teams/departments.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership:

- Serve as the overall technical authority for the contract or program, responsible for the integrity, feasibility, and quality of all engineering solutions.

- Ensure all technical deliverables meet contractual requirements, SLAs, performance objectives, and compliance standards.

- Lead technical decision making for scope changes, tradeoffs, risk mitigation, and issue resolution throughout the program lifecycle.

- Work directly with the Program Manager to document how scope changes impact contractual delivery; ensure clear and concise communications between all impacted stakeholders.

- Act as the senior technical interface with Program customers, supporting design reviews, technical interchange meetings, and executive briefings.

- Ensure tracking and transparency of technical work, schedule, reviews, and meetings.

- Set expectations for technical rigor, documentation quality, and engineering discipline across the program team.

- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Architecture & Engineering Direction:

- Define and own the Program engineering vision and architecture, ensuring consistency across systems, platforms, and solution components.

- Ensure solutions align with enterprise reference architectures, security frameworks, cloud/DevOps standards, and reuse strategies.

- Chair or participate in architecture and technical review boards related to the Program and relevant corporate strategies.

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