Chief Digital Systems Engineer

About the Company

Responsibilities

• ● Architectural Vision & Coherence
• ● Own the MDI technical architecture end-to-end: sovereign cloud (IL5/IL6), classified bilateral networks, maritime C2 patterns, edge-to-cloud pipelines, and coalition interoperability
• ● Ensure decisions in one workstream don't create debt in another -- hold the full picture across 8+ concurrent milestones
• ● Make the hard architectural calls: technology selection, accreditation-driven design constraints, build vs. buy, when to diverge from common baseline
• ● Drive the "build once, deploy per nation" model -- common baseline infrastructure with intentional, late divergence
• ● Engineering Standards & Quality
• ● Define and enforce the engineering bar: IaC practices, security baselines, deployment patterns, documentation requirements, peer review process
• ● Establish RFC-governed decision processes so architectural choices are deliberate, recorded, and reviewable
• ● Own reliability and quality improvement -- set measurable targets and drive the team toward them
• ● Translate national accreditation requirements (DCSA, IRAP/ISM, NCSC) into engineering work, not paperwork
• ● Scale & Reuse
• ● Build the common infrastructure patterns that let MDI expand to new nations and classification levels without proportional engineering effort
• ● Each subsequent national deployment should be faster than the last -- configuration over engineering
• ● Own the module library, deployment templates, and accreditation frameworks that make this possible
• ● Prevent the bespoke/incompatible pattern that every other defense company falls into at scale
• ● Team Leadership
• ● Technical leader for MDI's distributed engineering team across US, UK, and AUS
• ● Set direction, mentor IC3-IC5 engineers, review work, raise the bar
• ● Define the technical hiring bar and skills framework for MDI engineering roles
• ● Establish cross-timezone collaboration patterns that function without requiring you as a bottleneck

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