# Lead Engineer

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Chantilly, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $161,500 - $218,500
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Engineer to drive the end-to-end software engineering function for mission and enterprise applications across classified environments.

This role is accountable for application architecture, secure development standards, the full development lifecycle, and the overall technical health of the application portfolio, including management of technical debt, code quality, integration patterns, and production readiness.

## Key Responsibilities

- Own application architecture principles, reference patterns, technology standards, coding standards, API/event patterns, UI practices, and technical exception decisions.

- Lead software teams delivering web, backend, API, workflow, data-integrated, ServiceNow-adjacent, and AI-enabled mission capabilities.

- Establish repository, branching, code review, automated testing, dependency, security scanning, release, documentation, and definition-of-done standards.

- Translate approved requirements and acceptance criteria into solution designs, increments, technical backlogs, estimates, risks, and production-ready releases.

- Design integration and modernization approaches for legacy systems using adapters, APIs, events, strangler patterns, feature flags, and graceful degradation.

- Ensure applications implement identity/access, data classification, validation, audit/logging, error handling, accessibility/usability, resilience, and performance requirements.

- Partner with Platform/DevSecOps, Security, Data, AI, ServiceNow, Requirements, and Service Operations on lifecycle gates and operational handoff.

- Manage technical debt, architecture drift, defect trends, test coverage, vulnerability remediation, performance, and reliability improvement.

- Hire, lead, mentor, assign, review, and develop software personnel; address performance issues and create progression paths.

- Brief Government and program leadership on delivery status, technical risk, alternatives, product quality, and roadmap decisions.

## Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field, or approved equivalent experience.

- 12+ years of professional software development experience, including 5+ years leading development teams and 3+ years in application architecture or technical-lead authority.

- Deep production experience in at least two enterprise language stacks, such as Python, Java, C#/.NET, TypeScript/JavaScript/Node, Go, or C++.

- Strong experience with web/API architecture, relational and non-relational data, integration, authentication/authorization, testing, observability, and production operations.

- Experience establishing secure SDLC/DevSecOps practices with Git, peer review, automated testing, CI/CD, dependency/container scanning, artifact promotion, and release controls.

- Experience modernizing or integrating legacy enterprise systems under uptime, security, and compatibility constraints.

- Working knowledge of containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Azure/government cloud, internal artifact management, and disconnected development.

- Strong understanding of RMF/STIG, secure coding, data handling, auditability, vulnerability remediation, and production-readiness evidence.

- Demonstrated people leadership, hiring, delegation, mentoring, performance management, conflict resolution, and cross-team delivery.

- Experience briefing Government customers and translating mission outcomes into executable application plans.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with AI-enabled application patterns, RAG integration, ServiceNow development/integration, workflow automation, or operational analytics.

- Experience with microservices and modular monoliths, event-driven architecture, API gateways, message queues, and contract/schema governance.

- Experience with SRE practices, performance testing, resilience, feature flags, progressive delivery, and accessibility.

- CSSLP, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, DevOps Engineer Expert, and relevant architecture/agile/SAFe credentials.

- Prior DoW/IC application delivery in a disconnected environment.

## Benefits

- Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities.

- Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals.

- Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off.

- Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace.

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## Skills

### Required
- Applications Architecture
- Architecture Principles
- DevSecOps
- Python
- Java
- C#/.NET
- TypeScript/JavaScript/Node
- Go
- C++
- Git
- Kubernetes/OpenShift
- Azure/government cloud

### Nice to have
- AI-enabled application patterns
- RAG integration
- ServiceNow development/integration
- workflow automation
- operational analytics
- microservices
- modular monoliths
- event-driven architecture
- API gateways
- message queues
- contract/schema governance
- SRE practices
- performance testing
- resilience
- feature flags
- progressive delivery
- accessibility

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