Engineering Lead

The position serves as the primary lead coordinating engineering activities, operational priorities, customer engagement, project execution, and cross-team collaboration. The role requires strong expertise in operational leadership within a fast-paced enterprise environment.

• Proven ability to lead technical teams through all phases of the SDLC—design, development, testing, deployment, and support.
• Demonstrated experience guiding architecture decisions, code quality standards, and best practices for multi‑platform systems.
• Strong mentoring capabilities, with the ability to coach junior and mid‑level engineers across multiple technology stacks.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.
• Experience coordinating cross‑functional deliverables, managing technical risks, and ensuring alignment with enterprise architectural patterns.
• Ensure operational activities align with change management, security, and governance processes.
• Coordinate with federal leadership, stakeholders, vendors, and partner teams to support mission and operational objectives.
• Coordinate with cybersecurity, networking, cloud, identity management, and infrastructure teams to support integrated enterprise services.

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience leading Agile software development teams, providing technical leadership and hands‑on guidance.
• Proven experience in full‑stack web application development.
• Strong development expertise with technologies such as Java Spring Boot, AngularJS/Angular, .NET, C#, and Visual Basic.
• Experience building and deploying applications in containerized environments using Docker and Docker Compose.
• Experience designing and developing responsive web applications using JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern front-end frameworks and libraries (e.g. React, Angular, jQuery)
• Experience designing and implementing data access layers and database schemas using JPA or similar ORM frameworks.
• Proficiency in writing automated tests, including unit, integration, functional, accessibility (508), performance, and end‑to‑end tests.
• Hands-on experience working with CI/CD pipelines and tooling for automated build, test, security scanning, and deployment.
• Experience working in AWS Cloud environments, including services such as Amazon EKS (Kubernetes), Kafka (managed or self-hosted), and cloud‑native architectures.
• Strong database experience with platforms including PostgreSQL, Oracle, and familiarity with data visualization and reporting using Tableau.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
• Strong analytical thinking, creative problem‑solving ability, and commitment to continuous improvement.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise or government IT environments.
• Background in identity and access management, including SSO, certificate‑based authentication, and endpoint security solutions.
• Experience coordinating operational support activities, including change management, incident response, and production troubleshooting.
• Strong troubleshooting abilities, along with excellent organizational, communication, and documentation skills.

• Advanced proficiency in Java (Java 17, Java 11, Java 1.8/1.8.0.2) with hands‑on experience leading development of enterprise-scale applications.
• Strong front‑end engineering capabilities using Angular (including AngularJS 13, 13.3.9, and 8.2).
• Deep experience deploying and orchestrating containerized applications using Amazon EKS and Docker.
• Solid background with relational databases including PostgreSQL (11.5), PostgreSQL 10, Oracle (12.1, 19c, 19.0), and Microsoft SQL Server 15.0.
• Expertise building and maintaining .NET applications using .NET/C#, .NET/C# 4.6, .NET/Visual Basic 6, and .NET/Visual Basic 4.8.
• Familiarity with enterprise messaging and event-driven architectures leveraging Kafka.
• Strong knowledge of Windows Server (including Windows Server 2019) and general Windows administration practices.
• Experience configuring and managing IIS 10.0 and IIS 6.0 web hosting environments.
• Experience working within AWS cloud environments, including AWS EC2 2016.
• Ability to interpret and build dashboards or analytics using Tableau.

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