Engineer - Contingent

Position: Engineer 5 - Contingent
Description

Title:

Lead Software Engineer (Service Now)

Location:

Charlotte, NC

Alternative

Location:

McClean, VA - Minneapolis, MN - San Antonio, TX - Chandler, AZ

Duration: 12 months

Work Engagement: W2

Work Schedule:

Hybrid 3 days in office/2 days remote

Benefits on offer for this contract position:
Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits

Summary:

In this contingent resource assignment, you may:
Consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Engineering. Consult on the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking. Provide expertise to client senior leadership on innovative Engineering business solutions.

Strategically engage with client personnel.

Required Qualifications:

Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.

Key Responsibilities:

* Enterprise Architecture Vision & Strategy:

* Define and own the technical vision, architecture roadmap, and technology strategy for the Cross Platform Engineering and Reference Architecture team operating under the Chief Data Office

* Lead the design, governance, and evolution of reference architectures for web services, APIs, data pipelines, CMS platforms, and enterprise integration patterns

* Establish and chair architecture review boards; evaluate designs for alignment with enterprise standards, scalability, and security posture

* Create comprehensive architectural decision records (ADRs), technology radar publications, and multi-year technology roadmaps

* Drive architectural consistency and coherence across multiple product teams and technology domains

* Mentor and guide Principal Engineers, Lead Engineers, and Senior Engineers in applying architectural patterns and making sound technical trade-offs

* Dev Sec Ops  Architecture & Governance:

* Define the target-state architecture for enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines with integrated security controls and compliance automation

* Establish and govern security architecture standards across the software development lifecycle, including static code analysis (Sonar), SAST (Checkmarx), SCA (Black Duck), secret scanning (Git Hub Secret Scanning), DAST (dynamic application security testing), and supply chain security

* Design infrastructure-as-code reference patterns, container security frameworks, and platform architecture blueprints

* Own the architectural vision for automated compliance validation, vulnerability management, and remediation processes

* Lead architectural alignment of Dev Sec Ops  tooling across Git Hub Actions (reusable workflows), static code analysis (Sonar), SAST (Checkmarx), SCA (Black Duck), secret scanning (Git Hub Secret Scanning), and Harness CD deployments to Open Shift (OCP) platforms

* Architect and maintain standardized Git Hub Actions workflow templates and reusable workflows that encode enterprise best practices for build, test, security scanning, and release governance

* Define and implement pipeline security gates and evidence collection by integrating static code analysis (Sonar), SAST (Checkmarx), SCA (Black Duck), secret scanning (Git Hub Secret Scanning), and DAST (dynamic application security testing) into CI/CD workflows with automated enforcement and reporting

* Design and govern Harness CD pipeline patterns for progressive delivery and environment promotion to Open Shift (OCP), including approvals, rollbacks, and audit-ready traceability

* Enterprise Standards, Governance & Process Definition:

* Serve as the primary architecture liaison with Enterprise Architecture, ensuring CDO standards align with firm-wide architectural principles and governance

* Define and govern development standards, deployment patterns, operational frameworks, and technology selection criteria

* Architect reusable workflow templates, pipeline frameworks, and automation libraries for broad organizational adoption

* Establish observability architecture, monitoring strategies, and incident response patterns

* Define branching strategies, release management governance, and deployment architecture patterns

* Drive adoption of shift-left security practices, zero-trust architectures, and defense-in-depth design principles

* Technical Leadership, Innovation & Influence:

* Evaluate, select, and champion emerging technologies in the Python ecosystem, Dev Ops, cloud-native platforms, and AI-enabled development

* Lead proof-of-concept and proof-of-architecture initiatives for new tools, frameworks, and platforms; translate findings into architectural recommendations

* Build and maintain strategic partnerships with Platform Engineering, Security, Cloud Operations, and Enterprise Architecture teams

* Drive cultural transformation…