Federal System Integrator Engineering Manager
This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.
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Job Description:
Leads a team of Systems Engineers supporting U.S. Federal Government customers, with primary focus on Army and Navy accounts. Applies deep subject matter expertise, leadership, and operational discipline to guide technical sales strategy, manage presales execution, and support complex customer requirements within established company policies. Accountable for team performance, technical strategy, resource alignment, and contribution to business results across assigned Federal territory. Acts as a key advisor to sales leadership and senior management on customer priorities, mission requirements, partner engagement, and long-term growth strategy across Army and Navy opportunities. This role is based on the management-level presales structure in the source material, but specialized here for DoD-focused systems engineering leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Managing the Business
- Direct overall systems engineering and presales operations for assigned Army and Navy accounts and opportunities.
- Translate business goals into actionable systems engineering coverage and utilization plans aligned to Federal sales priorities, mission demand, and pipeline needs.
- Proactively identify and address coverage gaps across the territory, aligning technical resources to the highest-value opportunities.
- Partner closely with account managers, capture leaders, channel teams, and overlay resources to shape strategy and improve win probability on complex Federal pursuits.
- Ensure the team is positioned to support customer evaluations, technical workshops, demonstrations, proposals, and architectural guidance in a timely and effective manner.
- Represent the systems engineering organization to sales leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring strong field-to-business alignment.
Federal Mission and Customer Engagement
- Build trusted relationships with key stakeholders across Army and Navy organizations, as well as with ecosystem partners supporting Federal programs.
- Understand mission priorities, operational environments, procurement dynamics, and security expectations relevant to Department of Defense customers.
- Support strategic account planning and major pursuits by aligning company capabilities to customer mission outcomes, modernization objectives, and risk considerations.
- Serve as an executive-level technical leader for critical deals, customer escalations, and strategic engagements.
Leading and Managing Systems Engineering People
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Systems Engineers to achieve technical, business, and customer success objectives.
- Assess performance and drive accountability across the team, recognizing strong performers and addressing performance gaps in a timely manner.
- Foster collaboration, knowledge sharing, and consistent execution across a distributed Federal systems engineering team.
- Develop talent pipelines and succession plans to ensure long-term strength in technical depth, mission understanding, and customer engagement capability.
- Anticipate evolving skill requirements tied to DoD priorities, cybersecurity requirements, cloud/network modernization, and emerging Federal technologies.
Technical Sales Leadership
- Guide the team in applying consultative selling and solution-oriented technical leadership to complex Federal opportunities.
- Coach Systems Engineers on how to connect technical solutions to customer mission needs, operational requirements, and measurable business or mission value.
- Help position the company as a strategic and trusted partner for enterprise IT, networking, security, hybrid cloud, and related modernization initiatives.
- Support development of technical strategies, competitive differentiation, and business cases tied to Federal customer objectives.
- Participate directly in priority opportunities where executive presence, technical depth, and strategic guidance are required.
Business Acumen and Operational Excellence
- Continuously evaluate team operations, resource deployment, and technical engagement effectiveness to improve performance and alignment with company goals.
- Apply strong business judgment to balancing revenue goals, customer satisfaction, partner strategy, and long-term account development.
- Contribute a strong “voice from the field” into internal planning, product feedback, and go-to-market decision making.
Required Qualifications
- Typically 10+ years of relevant experience in presales, systems engineering, or technical sales, including experience supporting complex enterprise or Federal customers, experience with networking in a presales environment or professional services
- Prior people management experience with demonstrated success leading technical presales or systems engineering teams.
- Experience supporting or selling into the U.S. Federal Government, with direct exposure to Department of Defense. Experience with Army and/or Navy, strongly preferred.
- Strong executive communication and customer-facing presentation skills.
- Demonstrated success managing technical resources in support of strategic pursuits, large opportunities, and long sales cycles.
- U.S. Citizenship is required.
- Ability to work effectively within U.S. Federal Government and Department of Defense customer environments.
- Strong executive communication and customer-facing presentation skills.
- Proven ability to build credibility with senior customer stakeholders, sales leadership, and internal cross-functional teams.
- Experience supporting Army and Navy mission environments, procurement motions, and partner ecosystems.
- Familiarity with Federal contracting environments, compliance expectations, and security-sensitive customer requirements.
- Background in leading teams supporting networking, security, cloud, infrastructure, or enterprise architecture solutions in Federal accounts.
- Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree preferred, but related experience can be substituted in lieu of degree.
Knowledge and Skills
- Strategic planning and execution
- Resource allocation and workforce planning
- Forecasting and operational management
- Executive communication and presentation
- Consultative and solution selling
- Business case development
- Coaching, performance management, and talent development
- Change leadership and organizational influence
- Ability to align technical solutions to mission needs in complex Federal environments
Travel
- Travel may be required based on customer engagement, team leadership, internal planning, and priority account activity.
Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Assertiveness, Bias, Building Rapport, Buyer Personas, Coaching, Complex Sales, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Customer Interactions, Design Thinking, Empathy, Financial Acumen, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Industry Knowledge, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 6 more}
Health & Wellbeing
We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
Personal & Professional Development
We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
Unconditional Inclusion
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
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"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 169,500 - 328,500 in Colorado // 183,000 - 355,000 in Massachusetts // 183,000 - 378,000 in California // 161,000 - 378,000 in Virginia & Washington
This range reflects the minimum to maximum combined base and target-level sales compensation that would be paid if the hire performs at 100% of their sales plan. Of that on-target pay amount, the mix of base salary and target-level sales compensation is 75%/25%."
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