Tech Lead - Software Engineering (Database & DevSecOps)

• Engineering

• Experience in working on teams utilizing Agile workflows and processes
• Engineer and architect the dabase architecture to support modernizion initiives
• Transle mission outcomes and prioritized product backlog items into technical delivery plans and sprint goals
• Develop, maintain, and evolve a modernized dabase architecture aligned to modernizion initiives, including cloud adoption
• Design, implement, and test dabase architecture solutions th improve scalability, resilience, security, and performance
• Re-engineer and transition legacy dabases to modernized architectures while enabling coexistence across on-premises and cloud ecosystems
• Gher, define, and refine dabase and reporting requirements for internal and external users
• Maintain enterprise architecture documention and technical artifacts, including da models, SOPs, installion guides, and reled engineering documention
• Lead development and integrion of secure APIs, da pipelines (structured/unstructured)
• Experience with software development languages/environments such as: JavaScript, GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible Automion, Java, PSSQL, YAML, and Terraform
• Develop automed CI/CD build/deployment pipelines using Ansible and Bitbucket/Gitlab.
• Implement DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automed testing, observability, and security controls
• Implement software release version control, provide release management support throughout a software product's life cycle (initial software development through promotion to Test, QA and Production Environments), ensuring the consistency and reliability of software builds

• Organizional & Technical Leadership

• Define and drive long-term technical stregy and architectural direction across teams
• Oversee the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions
• Serve as a senior technical authority and escalion point for cross-team and cross-domain issues
• Champion engineering excellence, including automed testing, CI/CD, reliability, and security
• Establish standards, best practices, and governance for software development
• Guide the responsible adoption of generive AI tools across engineering teams

• People Management & Leadership Development

• Lead, manage, and develop senior engineers and technical teams
• Own performance management, career development, succession planning, and talent growth
• Build and sustain a high-performing, inclusive engineering culture
• Coach leaders on effective team management, delivery, and technical decision-making

• Delivery & Execution

• Own delivery outcomes across Agile teams, ensuring predictability and quality
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to align roadmaps, priorities, and execution
• Ensure effective Agile practices, metrics, and continuous improvement using Jira
• Balance near-term delivery with long-term plform and technical investments
• Incorpore customer feedback, operional insights, and da to drive product improvements

• Cross-Functional & Executive Collaborion

• Act as a key engineering representive in cross-functional and leadership discussions
• Communice technical vision, risks, and progress to senior leadership
• Influence product stregy through deep understanding of users and technical constraints
• Drive alignment across engineering, product, design, and operions

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• BA and 12+ years of experience. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Proven track record of leading multiple teams and delivering complex software systems
• Demonstred leadership skills and tention to detail, including excellent organizional and documention skills
• Minimum of 10 years of hands-on technical experience in least three of the following areas: Oracle, SQL Server, Java, engineered systems, cloud technologies, da integrion, automed testing and deployments, and DevSecOps
• Demonstred experience supporting dabase engineering, architecture, modernizion, and Tier III technical support functions in complex enterprise environments
• Strong background in automed testing, CI/CD, and modern software delivery practices
• Experience with software development languages/environments such as: JavaScript, GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible Automion, Java, PSSQL, YAML, and Terraform
• Hands-on full-SDLC Agile Software Development experience, including full software lifecycle automion experience (design, development, test, deployment), including deployment to a production environment
• Experience designing, building, and deploying DevOps pipelines with Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory and Ansible (or equivalent tools)
• Exceptional leadership, communicion, and stakeholder management skills
• Experience working in a high op-temp, top secret environment
• Previous experience tracking projects in Jira or equivalent Agile Project Management software
• Experience with the following technologies:

• Gradle
• PowerShell
• Java Full Stack
• Oracle 19c
• Apache HTTP
• Apache Tomc
• Webservices

Preferred Qualificions

• Prior experienced with DISA and DISA's support to mission partners
• Prior experience leading dabase modernizion and transformion initiives involving legacy-to-modern plform migrion, cloud adoption, or hybrid enterprise environments.
• Experience in high-availability, mission-critical, or large-scale federal enterprise systems requiring strong reliability, performance, and security.
• Demonstred success leading teams responsible for dabase architecture standards, engineering governance, integrion, and technical problem resolution.
• Experience working in environments th require close coordinion with government stakeholders, cross-functional technical teams, and multiple contractors.

We are currently seeking an Technical Lead to join the Compartmented Enterprise Services Office (CESO) effort. This program is establishing a modern secure web service (SWS) operion as part of a ste-of-the-art, highly automed plform capable of supporting a rapidly expanding customer populion. Apply today to become part of the Leidos team th is assisting CESO as they migre to a high security cloud environment by providing network and communicion services, monitoring services, and system administrion. This position is based in Arlington, VA and is 100% on-site., If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the stus quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares., Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovions. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximely $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more informion, visit www.Leidos.com.