Software Engineer - Administrative Services Lead

Fusion Innovation's recent growth has earned us a top spot in the Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America and in Washington Business Journal's Best Places to Work multiple years in a row. Our team members are passionate about their work and are empowered to contribute their unique skills and perspectives to our projects. Here at Fusion, we put people first.

When you join us, you don't just join a company, you join a family. If you are ready to be part of a fun and engaging team where your innovative ideas are heard, supported, and make ever lasting mission impacts for our Nation's most sensitive programs, you have come to the right place.

Fusion Innovation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Administrative Services Lead to own the design, delivery, performance, and operational evolution of the administrative services domain for a large-scale, globally distributed mission platform. This position will provide technical leadership across control-plane services, administrative interfaces, user and role management, authentication and authorization, system lifecycle management, and peripheral/device management services. The Administrative Services Lead will also serve as a key technical point of contact for peripheral vendors, middleware providers, and SDK suppliers, helping evaluate, certify, integrate, and maintain third-party components within the platform.

This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced engineer who combines software and service ownership, distributed systems expertise, platform administration design, integration discipline, and technical leadership.

• Own the administrative services portfolio for a globally distributed software platform, including control-plane services, administrative interfaces, user and role administration, authentication and authorization, installation and upgrade services, and peripheral/middleware management.

• Define and maintain the architecture and delivery roadmap for administrative capabilities across multiple environments and deployment types.

• Lead the development and sustainment of administrative experiences supporting system administrators, operations personnel, field and support teams, site or regional managers, and role-specific users.

• Design and maintain user provisioning and lifecycle management capabilities.

• Develop and support role-based access control, permissions models, delegated administration, and secure administrative workflows.

• Oversee integration and lifecycle management for hardware peripherals, drivers, SDKs, vendor APIs, middleware services, and related dependencies.

• Serve as the primary technical lead for vendor engagement related to device and middleware integration and certification.

• Establish processes for evaluating and introducing new peripherals and middleware providers, including technical evaluation, certification criteria, compatibility testing, documentation, and supportability requirements.

• Ensure administrative services support reliable installation, upgrades, rollback, and operational support across geographically distributed sites.

• Manage compatibility across software, firmware, drivers, SDKs, middleware, and vendor releases.

• Partner with Software Architecture, Platform Engineering, Security, Field Engineering, Operations, and QA teams to ensure the administrative and control-plane stack is secure, reliable, and supportable.

• Independently manage the administrative services domain and drive technical and delivery outcomes.

• Participate in technical triage and root-cause analysis involving authentication, user access, administration, device integration, and platform management workflows.

• Define service boundaries, ownership models, technical roadmaps, and operational standards for the administrative services portfolio.

• Develop technical design documentation and communicate architecture, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field; four additional years of relevant experience may substitute for a degree.

• 10+ years of software engineering, platform engineering, or related technical experience, including 4+ years leading a major technical service area or engineering team.

• Strong experience designing and delivering administrative or control-plane services for complex distributed systems.

• Experience with one or more of the…