# Lead Systems Engineer - Product Owner

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Eagan, MN
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $87,100.00 - $157,450.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos is seeking Lead Systems Engineers to join the Air Traffic Business Area within the Homeland Sector, supporting the development of next-generation flight service and air traffic systems.

As a member of a Scaled Agile software development organization, you will contribute to the technical execution of a program that integrates proven, globally deployed technologies with modern cloud-native capabilities.

In this position, you will serve as a Product Owner for a development team in an Agile/SAFe environment, assisting in the design and implementation of software solutions alongside your team while working with program architects, stakeholders, product delivery, and DevSecOps teams.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- Review FAA requirement documents, advisory circulars, and applicable regulations to extract intent, constraints, and acceptance criteria.

- Manage the backlog for one or more Agile teams, prioritizing features based on stakeholder needs, and ensuring the development team builds the right functionality.

- Engage with customer stakeholders to identify use cases with an emphasis on completeness, testability, alignment with operational workflows, and readiness for validation trials.

- Decompose high-level regulatory requirements into specific, testable capability statements with clear acceptance criteria mapped to FAA compliance outcomes.

- Systematically capture and communicate design decisions, performance trade-offs, regulatory compliance rationales, and risk assessments with each release.

- Prepare and review technical documentation, including use cases, user interface specifications, and requirements traceability.

- Participate in structured reviews and inspections.

**Required Qualifications:**

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field with 4-8 years of relevant experience or a Master’s degree with 2-6 years of experience.

- Experience and familiarity with Agile methodology, principles, and tools.

- Familiarity with the role of the Agile Product Owner, including owning and prioritizing the product backlog, defining complete product backlog items, making timely decisions on scope, and acceptance of work.

- Strong understanding of disciplined engineering processes, including attention to detail.

- Past practical exposure to writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining software or scripts.

- Clear and effective verbal and written communication.

- Experience with the design of cloud-based systems.

- Experience in engaging customers to understand needs, deliver solutions, manage expectations, and maintain an ongoing relationship.

- Ability to obtain SF-85 Public Trust suitability determination.

- US Citizenship.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience with Java, Python, React, and scripting languages.

- Knowledge of AI-assisted development workflows and tools.

- Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

- Knowledge of air traffic control systems, general aviation, and/or flight services.

- Practical knowledge of FAA/DoD systems, technical policies, standards and orders.

- Experience with leveraging requirement-management tools and documentation platforms.

**Pay Range:** $87,100.00 - $157,450.00

## Skills

### Required
- Agile methodology
- cloud-based systems
- disciplined engineering processes
- SF-85 Public Trust suitability determination
- US Citizenship

### Nice to have
- Java
- Python
- React
- scripting languages
- AI-assisted development workflows
- DevSecOps practices
- CI/CD pipelines

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