Senior Technical Team Lead

Serve as the Technical Team Lead for the Mission Intelligence team, supporting data engineering, analytics, and automation initiatives at Columbia, MD. The MI team operates a business intelligence platform that enables enterprise-wide, data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the reliability, availability, and quality of the mission critical platform.
• Contribute to the MI team as a system engineer, software engineer, and analytic developer where you will design, develop, and integrate solutions involving the analysis of large data sets to establish mission cognizance and deliver mission-centric insights.

Responsibilities:

• Develop analytics to combine, normalize, and enrich large data sets.
• Design and implement ETL workflows to convert and normalize data.
• Augment the platform with new tools or technologies.
• Gather stakeholder requirements, assess available data, and develop solutions for delivering key metrics.
• Break down tasks into actionable steps that demonstrate consistent progress.
• Remove technical obstacles, manage expectations, and support team execution.
• Define and communicate task scope through clear documentation and tracking systems.
• Enable the team to integrate site reliability engineering practices into the operational platform.
• Mentor and guide junior software engineers and data scientists.
• Produce project management materials such as agendas, meeting notes, and design decision records.

• Experience supporting enterprise-scale platforms.
• Strong Java development skills.
• Familiarity with customer authentication and authorization platforms and standards.
• Experience with service containerization and deployment with Docker/Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Git for software version control.
• Experience with Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence).
• Customer service mindset.
• Experience leading technical teams.
• Effective interpersonal skills for collaborating across diverse backgrounds and skill sets.
• Experience or exposure to site reliability engineering (SRE) principles.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Apache NiFi.
• Experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of map reduce analytic environments (e.g., Hadoop).
• Understanding of end-to-end signals intelligence collection and analysis systems.
• Python experience
• Experience with production offensive security operations capabilities and operations.

Experience Required: 12 years with Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, or 16 years without degree