GDS Lead Engineer

Who We Are

Headquartered in Washington, DC, Versar Global Solutions provides full mission lifecycle solutions for challenges faced by our government and commercial Customers in the natural, built, and digital environments. With nearly 2,000 team members around the world, and a rich legacy spanning more than 70 years, Versar Global Solutions delivers a broad array of planning, analysis and risk management solutions, project and program management, operations and maintenance services, and information technology applications for environmental management and remediation projects, mission critical facilities and installations, and in support of readiness and contingency operations.

You are a hands-on Technical Lead with experience designing, building, and operating modern, cloud-native systems across the full application stack. You combine strong software engineering fundamentals with ownership of technical direction, architecture, implementation, and delivery, guiding teams toward scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions grounded in industry best practices and proven approaches adapted to complex, real-world environments.

You bring a broad but practical range of experience spanning backend development, data engineering and analytics, data governance, cloud infrastructure, networking, and AI-enabled systems. You understand how to evaluate open-source, commercial, and standards-based technologies, make informed tradeoffs, and lead their deployment within larger enterprise environments. You are comfortable working across domains, rapidly learning new tools, and prioritizing contributions across multiple concurrent initiatives.

You are known as a pragmatic, “get-it-done” technical leader who thrives in fast-moving, multidisciplinary environments. You balance hands-on individual contributions with architecture decision-making, mentorship, and clear communication in both technical and business contexts, carrying initiatives from concept through production.

Technical Architecture

• Own technical direction and system architecture across assigned initiatives, including interface design, technology selection, and long-term maintainability.
• Author, review, and approve architecture and design documentation, clearly articulating tradeoffs across performance, cost, scalability, and operational risk.

Project Management

• Lead technical planning and requirements investigation, translating business objectives into scoped technical work, delivery plans, estimates, and sequencing.
• Support agile delivery practices including sprint planning, prioritization, dependency management, and risk tracking while communicating progress and tradeoffs to stakeholders.

Software Engineering

• Design, implement, and review backend services, APIs, and application components using modern, cloud-native development practices.
• Establish and uphold standards for code quality, testing, documentation, observability, and operational reliability through hands-on contribution and review.

Data & AI / ML Engineering

• Design and implement batch and streaming data pipelines, analytics workflows, and visualization layers to enable timely, data-driven decision-making.
• Lead the integration of AI- and ML-enabled capabilities into production systems with a focus on reliability, interpretability, cost efficiency, and operational readiness.

Security & Data Governance

• Author System Security Plans and oversee design and implementation to meet organizational, federal, state, and customer security, privacy, and data governance requirements.
• Contribute to reference documentation, best practices, and standards for security, privacy, and data governance across bespoke products and internal enterprise systems.
• Ensure timely remediation of security vulnerabilities, failed compliance reviews, and alignment with evolving industry best practices.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
• At least 5-years of professional experience in software development
• At least 3-years of professional experience in managerial roles

• Full-stack software development using modern Python-…