Software Engineer - Technical Team Lead

Job Title:

Software Engineer - Technical Team Lead
Job Category:
Engineering
Time Type:
Full time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI with Polygraph
Employee Type:
Regular
Percentage of

Travel Required:

Up to 10%
Type of Travel:
Local

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.

• 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.

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.

• 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 Ni Fi
• 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.

At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation.