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Air Dominance Engineering within Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) has an exciting opportunity for a Chief Architect (Level M) to join a proprietary program in Hazelwood, MO.
A franchise program is seeking a Senior Manager to assume leadership as the Chief Architect as the program advances through development. This position plays a critical technical leadership role across multiple program teams and segments, assuring system integration, quality engineering across design, build, and test, and alignment of technical execution with program strategy.
The Chief Architect will provide senior technical leadership to Systems Engineering, specifically ensuring Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodology is executed on the program and that appropriate integration occurs across all engineering disciplines to ensure an integrated solution.
This position is responsible for providing day-to-day leadership for activities involving Weapon System design, development, and qualification, ensuring consistent interface definition, integration, and coordination. The Chief Architect will ensure the Weapon System architecture meets customer requirements and achieves mission success through technical excellence, safety, quality, and product engineering.
This role also contributes to program strategy by helping identify tools, technologies, methods, services, and solutions that position the program for success. The selected candidate will work closely with customer engineering personnel, program leadership, Integrated Product Teams, and internal stakeholders to support technical strategy, execution planning, and future growth.
Position Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day leadership for activities involving Weapon System design, development, and qualification ensuring consistent interface definition, integration, and coordination.
- Ensure Weapon System architecture meets customer requirements and achieves mission success through technical excellence, safety, quality, and product engineering.
- Support the identification and development of tools, technology, methods, services, and solutions that position the program for success.
- Drive technical performance and accountability across all disciplines.
- Support technical trade studies, architecture decisions, and technical recommendations that influence program execution and future growth.
- Coordinate with functional and support organizations to acquire appropriate resources to accomplish development tasks.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with corresponding customer engineering personnel.
- Establish, leverage, and maintain productive working relationships with Integrated Product Teams, supply chain, and other business units as required.
- Support a transparent culture of proactive technical oversight and rapid issue resolution.
- Support the development of program personnel and provide growth opportunities.
- Support a culture of Safety, Quality, Technical Excellence, and Integrity.
- Help shape technical roadmaps, affordability considerations, and investment priorities that support both execution and future competitiveness.
This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at Hazelwood, MO.
Travel may be required up to 10% of the time; Domestically and/or internationally depending on business needs.
This position requires an active U.S. Top-Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).
Potential signing bonus for eligible/qualified external candidates.
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills and Experience)
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement
- Experience as a Senior Engineering Manager or technical leader working across multi-disciplined teams supporting technical execution of complex systems.
- Experience with Government customer interactions and program execution engagements.
- Experience leading engineering trade studies and baseline control.
- Experience working with program management and finance to ensure execution to program plans.
- Experience leading technical execution across design, development, integration, and qualification activities.
- Experience contributing to technical strategy, advanced design activities and customer engagement in a complex systems environment.
- Experience establishing and maintaining strong cross-functional relationships with customers, suppliers, and internal teams.
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills / Experience)
- 5+ years of engineering or technical leadership experience with large-scale weapon system integration.
- 5+ years of experience in fixed-wing weapon systems development.
- 5+ years leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
- Strong communication, adaptability, decision making, customer focus, integrated systems, engineering analysis, and requirements tracing skill sets.
- Experience providing technical leadership in a transparent culture of proactive oversight and rapid issue resolution.
- Experience supporting technical baselines, qualification planning, and cross-functional engineering coordination.
- Experience applying MBSE methodologies in a development environment.
- Experience influencing architecture decisions that improve affordability, producibility, and mission effectiveness.
Conflict of Interest:
Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.
Drug Free Workplace:
Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.
Total Rewards:
At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
The Boeing 401(k) helps you save for your future, with contributions from Boeing that can help you grow your retirement savings. Our best-in-class retirement benefit features:
- Best in class 401(k) plan: we'll match your contributions dollar for dollar, up to 10% of eligible pay with Immediate 100% vesting
- Student Loan Match: The Boeing 401(k) Student Loan Match allows eligible enrolled U.S. employees to have their qualified student loan debt payments counted, along with any match-eligible contributions they make, for purposes of determining the Company Match to employees' Boeing 401(k) accounts.
Summary pay range: $198,900 - $269,100
Applications for this position will be accepted until Jul. 09, 2026
Export Control Requirements:
This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.
Export Control Details:
US based job, US Person required
Education
Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Required
Relocation
This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.
Security Clearance
This position requires an active U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)
Visa Sponsorship
Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
Shift
This position is for 1st shift
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
