Chief Engineer at Careers Lmi.Icims.Com, Washington, DC

Chief Engineer at Careers Lmi.Icims.Com in Washington, DC. Est. up to $130k. Apply with swipeandhired.

Job Locations

US-DC-Washington, DC

ID

2026-14676

# of Openings

1

Overview

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.
Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, homeland, healthcare, and intelligence sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.

Responsibilities

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. The Chief Engineer will establish the engineering vision, maintain the integrated technical baseline, and align systems, network, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, applications, data, and operations around a coherent solution. This execution-oriented leadership role supports a fast-paced, milestone-driven prototype with near-term commitments. Success requires broad technical credibility, disciplined governance, executive communication, and balanced judgment across mission, security, resilience, cost, schedule, and lifecycle risk.

Pri mary duties include:

• 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 addressing 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.

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