Engineering Tech Lead

Leidos is seeking an Engineering Tech Lead for a 200+ FTE technical development program supporting the Sponsor’s IdAM /ICAM program.

The Engineering Tech Lead will be responsible for leading a team of developers, system administrators, and testers through delivery, participating in deployment/administration of tools and integration testing, and providing technical guidance to the team’s System Engineers and Developers.

The ideal candidate will have significant, hands-on systems architecture / engineering experience, knowledge of key ICAM concepts, and experience with IdAM / ICAM services and customers security accreditation (A&A) process for system approval.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide technical guidance to the team’s System Engineers and Developers
• Work closely with the teams PM to ensure the technical baseline meets delivery requirements, schedule, and milestones
• Work closely with Portfolio Solution Architect to build future vision and drive vision into the unclassified solution
• Provide status updates to contract PMO and government staff lead
• Assist in completing monthly Technical Program Management Review (PMR) charts and supports internal RRB process
• Represent the team at staff meetings, requirements meetings, tech lead meetings, and TEMs
• Support defining requirements and the breakdown of work efforts into actionable tasks for the development team to execute
• Provide technical diagrams, charts, and documentation for systems
• Ensure designs are compatible with the architecture and security requirements
• Work with the team’s security engineer to address/mitigate security findings stemming from system security scans
• Deeply understand the engineering and design of the system and be able to speak to it with internal and external audiences
• Work with the government staff lead and project team lead to prioritize work
• Research new technologies / products that will help modernize the Sponsor’s ICAM footprint
• Guide and advise technical staff in the implementation of the services and tools
• Works with PM to align the team, share technical direction, evaluate technology assumptions and alternatives

Required Quals:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of experience. Additional experience in lieu of degree.
• Must have experience with IdAM / ICAM services and customers security accreditation (A&A) process for system approval
• Must have experience with the Cloud / Amazon Web Services
• Must have experience in Systems Engineering to include providing requirements and system interface analysis for enterprise scale development project
• Experience developing and maintaining interface control documents between components in an enterprise operational system
• Strong communication between development team and stakeholders on intent of the requirements and user stories
• Translating user requirements into agile sprint stories and acceptance criteria that is achievable within each sprint
• Experience with agile project management methodologies, including managing product backlogs

Desired Quals:

• Experience with requirements management on a program interacting with and supporting multiple customers
• Experience with SaaS ICAM vendors (Ping, Okta, SavyInt, etc.)
• Experience as a Scrum Master
• Experience working with CloudFormation / Puppet / Groovy, or other configuration and automation tools
• Experience with containers
• Network engineering troubleshooting between Cloud environments and non-Cloud environments
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Ansible / Terraform, or other configuration and automation tools
• Solid understanding of Web Application Firewall (WAF) configuration and management
• Experience with networking (e.g., ports, routing tables, subnets, VPNs, firewalls, routers, etc.) to include design, integration and troubleshooting issues
• Experience working in a cloud-based environment (AWS)

Pay Range: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00