Must possess the ability to perform risk management by assessing program risks, determining probability and consequences of failure, developing mitigation strategies, alternative courses of action, workarounds, and fallback positions, monitoring risks using Earned Value Management (EVM) data, conducting end-to-end trade studies, quantitative analyses of non-functional performance areas such as reliability, maintainability, vulnerability, survivability, and producibility, leveraging validated models, simulations, and prototypes to reduce risk and cost, and recommending preferred Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) solutions based on lifecycle cost, technology limitations, environmental impact, and selection criteria. Must have the ability to provide technical direction for the engineering, development, interfacing, integration, testing, assessment, and management of complex hardware and software systems; participate in Integrated Product Teams (IPTs); coordinate Configuration Control Board (CCB), design, program, and test review actions; define and manage interfaces; capture interface designs in a common repository; establish formal integration processes across multiple teams; serve as a CCB member; and ensure the technical integrity and configuration control of hardware, software, documentation, and system baselines throughout development, deployment, operations, and maintenance.