Lead Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the software architecture with focus on interface clarity, stability, and versioning to minimize integration risk, with a focus on production type software that is easily maintainable.
• Partner with appropriate stakeholders to inform system definition and oversee translation of system-level requirements into software requirements and models that meet customer, operational and performance requirements and have clear traceability to design, code and test artifacts.
• Manage supplier/subcontractor software deliverables to ensure they meet team processes and integration requirements.
• Lead the software engineering team’s agile delivery: facilitate sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, sprint reviews/retrospectives, and remove impediments to flow.
• Serve as the Agile/Delivery lead for software—own backlog prioritization with product/system owners, define sprint goals, and ensure timely delivery of integration‑ready increments.
• Define, document, and enforce software integration contracts (ICDs or equivalent living artifacts), data models, and message definitions in coordination with Integration & Test and Systems leads.
• Ensure software is designed for testability: require unit, component, integration, SIL/HIL test artifacts with code deliveries, include observability hooks, and ensure failures are diagnosable.
• Lead Dev Sec Ops  and CI/CD practices for the team: ensure pipelines support repeatable builds, automated testing, artifact traceability, and consistent deployments across dev, integration, and test environments.
• Collaborate with Integration & Test to align delivery cadence to integration increments and controlled configuration baselines.
• Drive verification & validation execution for software components: support development of test strategies, analyze test results, and triage defects with the team.
• Establish and track delivery metrics (velocity, cycle time, quality metrics, technical debt) and use them to improve predictability and quality.
• Coach and mentor engineers on agile practices, test automation, CI/CD, code quality, and observability.
• Contribute to risk and issue management that affects software delivery and integration readiness; elevate when necessary to protect integration milestones.
• Document integration results, test findings, and provide inputs for design reviews and readiness assessments.

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Active Top Secret U.S. Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship
• 5+ years of experience in leading efforts in analyzing and translating requirements into system architecture, hardware and software designs and interface specifications
• Experience as an Agile Systems or Software Development Team Lead
• 5+ years of experience with the Dev Sec Ops  lifecycle
• 5+ years of experience of Dev Ops experience (Git, Jenkins, or other CI/CD tools)
• 5+ years of experience with configuration management and collaboration tools such as (or similar to) Git, JIRA, Collaborator, Beyond Compare, and Version One
• 1+ years of Proficient with scripting/programming languages used for automation and testing (e.g., Python, Bash)

Demonstrates expertise in software architecture, agile delivery, and Dev Sec Ops  practices, ensuring integration readiness and quality through effective team leadership and collaboration. Proficient in managing software requirements, testing strategies, and delivery metrics to enhance predictability and performance.

• Software Architecture Management
• Agile Delivery Leadership
• Dev Sec Ops  Lifecycle Experience
• CI/CD Tools Proficiency
• Requirements Analysis and Translation

• Software Architecture
• Agile Methodologies
• Dev Sec Ops
• CI/CD
• Configuration Management
• Scripting Languages
• Test Automation
• Integration Contracts
• Delivery Metrics
• Requirements Translation

• Team Leadership
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Collaboration
• Problem Solving
• Communication

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Top Secret U.S. Security Clearance

• Integration and Test
• Software Development
• Test Strategies
• Velocity Metrics
• Technical Debt

• Git
• Jenkins
• JIRA
• Collaborator
• Beyond Compare
• Version One