Senior Principal Digital Engineer

SAIC seeks a Senior Digital Engineer to own the technical strategy and delivery of advanced digital engineering transformation initiatives supporting national security and intelligence missions. You will drive end-to-end digital engineering efforts, from problem framing and architecture design through production, deployment, and operational excellence—while serving as the trusted technical advisor for mission-critical systems. This is a role for someone who raises the bar across teams through mentorship, technical and thought leadership.

Primary responsibilities:

• Serve as SAIC’s lead technical advisor for digital engineering projects, including model-based systems engineering (MBSE), cloud integration, and digital thread development. Set technical direction and drive stakeholder alignment on architecture decisions that reduce acquisition risk.

• Identify mission needs, operational concepts, and requirements to influence acquisition and budget efforts. 

• Assess integration activities across technical, resource, and schedule dependencies to present unbiased findings, analysis, and recommendations to government and SAIC managers. 

• Provide technical assessments of project reviews, milestones, and decision gates then identify risks, issues, opportunities, and mitigations to represent interests with stakeholders. 

• Support requests for systems engineering and integration studies, process analysis and design, project management assessments.

• Provide analysis, recommendations, and take necessary actions. 

• Support development or assessment of system Concept of Operations, Requirements Documents, Test Plans, Contract Statements of Work, Systems Engineering Plans, and contribute to staff work needs (e.g., action items, weekly reports, etc.), including support to acquisitions and source selections. 

• Mentor systems engineers on requirements traceability, design validation, and digital thread implementation. Elevate team capabilities through peer feedback, design review, and technical leadership and actively shape the technical culture of the team.

• Collaborate proactively with SAIC personnel and other contractors across multiple sites and organizational levels. Drive alignment across concurrent programs on conflicting technical requirements.