TS/SCI Sr. Lead Systems Engineer VI
Insight Global · Englewood, CO
$116,480–$208,505from the description
Jul 1, 2026
Englewood, CO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior leadership role within a space systems engineering team, responsible for directing the design, integration, and verification of space, ground, and launch systems across the full program lifecycle. The position combines hands-on technical work — including architecture development, requirements, CONOPS, and trade studies — with IPT leadership, schedule and budget ownership, and stakeholder coordination. Suited to a seasoned systems engineer with deep space or aerospace program experience and an active security clearance.
Senior level · 10+ years · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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Why we read it this way (9)
Systems Engineering is not a perfect fit for any single SOC code. 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is used as the closest available code; 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers) is a plausible runner-up given the team leadership, IPT Lead, and budget/schedule ownership responsibilities. Neither is a clean match for aerospace/defense systems engineering.
The posting lists 'Active Top Secret clearance' and 'TS/SCI clearance' as separate bullet points under the required skills section — both are treated as hard gates, with TS/SCI being the higher bar captured here.
The title 'Sr. Lead Systems Engineer VI' contains both a seniority modifier ('Sr. Lead') and a numeric level ('VI'), which together suggest a very senior individual contributor. However, the scope — leading a team, owning cost/schedule, acting as IPT Lead — is consistent with a Senior band rather than Staff or Principal, as this appears to be program-level rather than org-wide technical authority.
Cameo and MagicDraw are listed together as MBSE tool examples; they are effectively the same product (MagicDraw rebranded as Cameo Systems Modeler), so they are captured as a single skill with the other as an alternative.
Jira and Confluence are listed together under 'Atlassian tools' in the nice-to-have section; they are distinct tools and emitted separately, both as preferred.
The degree requirement lists Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD — the minimum hard-required degree is therefore Bachelor's.
The salary range upper bound appears in the posting as '$208,505k', which is almost certainly a formatting error for $208,505 (not $208,505,000); the figures are captured as stated in annual terms.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): systems engineering.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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