Technical Team Lead III - SWE Background

Job Description

SALARY RANGE $209,000 - $266,000/year

DUTIES As a successful candidate for the Technical Team Lead III role, you will serve as the Technical Team Lead for the Mission Intelligence (MI) team, supporting data engineering, analytics, and automation initiatives for a business intelligence platform that enables enterprise-wide, data-driven decision-making. You will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and quality of this mission-critical platform while providing technical leadership, guiding team execution, and supporting the delivery of innovative solutions that drive informed decision-making across the enterprise.

Required Skills

SKILLS

• Requirements gathering and stakeholder engagement
• Data analysis and metrics-driven solution development
• Task planning, decomposition, and execution tracking
• Technical leadership and team coordination
• Risk identification and technical obstacle resolution
• Stakeholder expectation management
• Scope definition and project documentation
• Project tracking and workflow management
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) implementation and integration
• Platform operations and reliability support
• Mentoring and development of software engineers and data scientists
• Technical communication and cross-functional collaboration
• Meeting facilitation and agenda development
• Design decision documentation and record management
• Project management and organizational support activities

QUALIFICATIONS Twelve (12) years' experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Additional Requirements:

• Strong customer service orientation
• Experience leading technical teams and driving project execution
• Effective interpersonal and collaboration skills across diverse technical and non-technical teams
• Familiarity with enterprise-scale software deployment architectures
• Experience with or exposure to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Willingness to develop and maintain internal and customer-facing documentation
• Experience working within collaborative, cross-functional environments
• Ability to mentor, guide, and support junior team members
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Desired Skills

NICE-TO-HAVES

• Experience with Apache NiFi
• Experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized environments
• Knowledge of map-reduce analytic frameworks such as Hadoop
• Understanding of end-to-end SIGINT collection and analysis systems
• Experience supporting production CNO capabilities and operations
• Experience working with large-scale data processing and analytics platforms
• Familiarity with enterprise data engineering and automation environments
• Knowledge of distributed computing architectures and big data technologies
• Experience supporting mission-focused intelligence or cyber operations environments