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Engineering Management, Director
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McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
Listed on 2026-05-31
Listing for:
Phase2 Technology
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-05-31
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, IT Project Manager
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Job Number: R0240547
Engineering Management, Director
What You’ll Work On- Lead, coach, mentor, and grow a team of Squad and Engineering Managers and the broader engineering organization.
- Establish, maintain, and continuously improve the required engineering artifacts and processes for every product and project, including Sprint and iteration execution plans with clear visibility into planned work and archived key architectural decisions.
- Provide timely, accurate, and transparent project status reporting, including burndown charts, critical path analysis, percentage completeness, and milestone progress, at end-of-sprint, key milestones, and feature readiness gates.
- Run or facilitate feature review and approval meetings at the end of each sprint and milestone to demonstrate progress and launch readiness.
- Proactively surface date, feature, quality trade-offs, and drive timely alignment with Product Management.
- Deliver clear evidence of "go-live" readiness and ongoing status reporting.
- Maintain and share dashboards for security, scalability, availability, cost, uptime, code quality, test coverage, and incident analysis.
- Ensure consistent execution of deployment safety practices, on-call rotations, and operational processes.
- Implement and enforce secure-by-design processes, compliance requirements, threat‑modeling evidence, and coordination protocols before production changes via feature flags and release holds.
- Partner closely with Product Management on roadmap feasibility, prioritization input, trade‑off decisions, and rapid experimentation, while clearly owning the "how we deliver" and execution transparency.
- Collaborate with technical leadership such as System Architects and Tech Leads on architecture and infrastructure topics as needed for planning and risk management.
- Work effectively with CIO and Technical Enablement teams when platform decisions impact delivery.
- 10+ years of experience in engineering.
- 5+ years of experience in a progressive engineering leadership role.
- Experience leading multiple delivery teams, such as squads or ARTs, in a scaled agile environment including SAFe, Scrum, or Kanban.
- Experience implementing transparency mechanisms such as structured status reporting, dashboards, artifacts, trade‑off visibility, and predictable delivery cadences.
- Experience building and scaling engineering management layers.
- Ability to translate delivery status and risks clearly for Product, GTM, and executive audiences.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
- Experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) or Director of Engineering in a SAFe environment.
- Experience with modern delivery practices such as CI/CD, Dev Ops, or observability.
- Experience in security-conscious or regulated environments.
- Experience scaling engineering teams from early or mid-stage to 30+ engineers.
- Possession of excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
Salary range: $ to $ (annualized USD). Benefits include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement insurance, paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, and work-life programs.
Commitment to Non-DiscriminationAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.
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