Software Engineer - Technical Team Lead Annapolis Junction, MD, US

About this role

**Serve as the Technical Team Lead for the Mission Intelligence (MI) team, supporting data engineering, analytics, and automation initiatives. The MI team operates a business intelligence platform that enables enterprise-wide, data driven decision making. Your primary responsibility is to ensure the reliability, availability, and quality of this mission critical platform. You will also contribute to the MI team as a system engineer, software engineer and analytic developer where you will design, develop, and integrate solutions involving the analysis of large data sets to establish mission cognizance and deliver mission-centric insights. Responsibilities • Develop analytics to combine, normalize, and enrich large data sets. • Design and implement ETL workflows to convert and normalize data. • Augment the platform with new tools or technologies. • Gather stakeholder requirements, assess available data, and develop solutions for delivering key metrics. • Break down tasks into actionable steps that demonstrate consistent progress. • Remove technical obstacles, manage expectations, and support team execution. • Define and communicate task scope through clear documentation and tracking systems. • Enable the team to integrate site reliability engineering practices into the operational platform. • Mentor and guide junior software engineers and data scientists. • Produce project management materials such as agendas, meeting notes, and design decision records. • Skills Requirements: Experience supporting enterprise-scale platforms. • Strong Java development skills. • Familiarity with customer authentication and authorization platforms and standards. • Experience with service containerization and deployment with Docker/Kubernetes. • Familiarity with Git for software version control. • Experience with Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence). • Customer service mindset. • Experience leading technical teams. • Effective interpersonal skills for collaborating across diverse backgrounds and skill sets. • Experience or exposure to site reliability engineering (SRE) principles. • Willingness to contribute to internal and customer-facing documentation.

Qualifications: Required: • Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph • Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline from an accredited institution. • A minimum of 12 years of experience as a Lead Systems Engineer on programs of similar scope, type, and complexity • Proven experience planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts.

Desired: • Strong written and verbal communication skills. • Extensive experience working directly with mission-focused customers. • Strong analytical skills with the ability to understand sophisticated dataflows and automation concepts. • Experience guiding system development through engineering management plans. • Experience with Apache NiFi • Experience defining system, functional, and component-level requirements. • Hands on experience automating test cases using software tools and systems. • Experience working in an agile, continuous delivery environment. • Exposure to operational scenario support and transitions to production environments. • Experience monitoring deployed systems, dataflows, and tool performance.**