Principal Director, Mission Engineering and Systems Integration

Quick Facts

Principal Director, Mission Engineering and Systems Integration is a senior career executive role that serves as the principal advisor responsible for continuity, executive management, technical integration, and disciplined execution for the Mission Engineering and Integration Activity (MEIA).

Description

Leads a large, multidisciplinary enterprise across military, civilian, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, University Affiliated Research Centers, and contractors. Provides executive integration and oversight to ensure MEIA functions as a single Department-level enterprise with accountability for cost, schedule, performance, technical risk, transition, and return on investment.

Responsibilities

• Directs day-to-day operations, administration, and execution; provides organizational continuity through leadership, priority, personnel, and fiscal changes.
• Ensures executive integration across MEIA functions so activities operate as one Department-level enterprise.
• Leads advanced mission engineering and systems-of-systems analysis to decompose Blue and adversary kill chains, identify limiting factors and capability gaps, and develop integrated options with measurable operational advantage.
• Oversees MEIA programs, projects, contracts, analytic efforts, digital products, infrastructure, and capability-development initiatives; manages accountability for cost, schedule, performance, and technical risk.
• Leads MEIA participation in DoD Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) and translates mission engineering findings into executable resource options, budget recommendations, spend plans, and transition strategies.
• Institutionalizes business case analysis and ROI as core decision disciplines for capability development and Department resource decisions.
• Provides executive oversight of multi-cloud, multi-classification digital environments supporting analysis, mission engineering, modeling and simulation, artificial intelligence, data integration, software development, and secure collaboration.
• Oversees structured industry engagement and technical due diligence to assess commercial and defense technologies for priority mission problems.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship
• Ability to obtain Top Secret clearance and access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI)
• Negative drug test prior to appointment; subject to designated/random drug testing
• New Career SES leaders must sign the Reassignment Rights Obligations Agreement
• Must file OGE-278 Executive Branch Personnel Financial Disclosure Report
• One-year probationary period in the SES unless previously completed
• Resume must demonstrate required Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) and Technical Qualifications (TQs) within a 2-page maximum

Benefits

A federal career includes a comprehensive benefits package; eligibility varies based on the specific position type (full-time, part-time, or intermittent).