Systems Design/Architecture Engineer

Reference: 85347-370043Readiness Delivered. At Kratos, we encourage an entrepreneurial spirit balanced with discipline. We work hard, and take care of our customers, employees, and families. Recognized as thought leaders in our industry, we are motivated by creating and delivering innovative solutions to our nation and global customers. The Lead Systems Architect plays a critical role in shaping and maintaining the technical vision, architecture, and engineering strategy for the CCS-C program. This position guides complex, multidisciplinary engineering efforts across the full system lifecycle—from requirements and design through integration, verification, validation, and production transition. Serving as a key technical authority, the architect ensures architectural consistency, drives technical decision-making, evaluates trade studies, mitigates risks, and supports milestone readiness. This role requires a deep understanding of mission-critical aerospace and defense systems, along with the leadership ability to mentor engineers, interface with customers and partners, and support the chief engineer in delivering a robust, compliant, and forward-looking system architecture.Support the Chief Engineer in defining and maintaining the CCS-C technical vision, system architecture, and engineering strategy.Lead the development, evaluation, and maturation of system and subsystem architectures.Ensure technical requirements are complete, traceable, verifiable, and appropriately allocated across systems, subsystems, hardware, software, and interfaces.Guide multidisciplinary engineering teams through requirements analysis, design, integration, verification, validation, qualification, and production transition.Evaluate design alternatives and technical trade studies involving performance, cost, schedule, risk, reliability, producibility, maintainability, and lifecycle considerations.Ensure consistency between the approved architecture, detailed designs, interface definitions, models, analyses, and verification plans.Chair or support technical reviews, including requirements reviews, system design reviews, preliminary design reviews, critical design reviews, test readiness reviews, and configuration control boards.Identify, document, communicate, and drive closure of technical risks, issues, assumptions, and opportunities.Provide independent technical assessment of design maturity, engineering performance, and readiness to proceed through program milestones.Coordinate technical decisions across engineering disciplines, program management, operations, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and customer organizations.Review and approve key engineering plans, specifications, drawings, analyses, interface documentation, test plans, and technical reports within delegated authority.Ensure compliance with applicable C-SAR contractual requirements, internal engineering processes, industry standards, airworthiness requirements, and customer expectations.Support technical interchange meetings and design reviews with customers, suppliers, government representatives, and external partners.Provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineering leads and developing technical talent.Assist with engineering staffing, capability planning, proposal development, basis-of-estimate preparation, and technical content for new business opportunities.Serve as the delegated technical authority when the chief engineer is unavailable.BenefitsMedical, Dental & Vision Insurance CoverageLife/ADD & Short/Long Term Disability Insurance401(k) Savings PlanEmployee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)Paid Time-Off (PTO)HolidaysEducation Reimbursement