# Principal Engineer / Technical Lead **Company**: Leidos **Location**: Arlington, VA **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Arlington-VA/Lead-Software-Engineer--Data---DevSecOps_R-00192727?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_a138c6ec-d6c ## Description We are seeking a Principal Engineer / Technical Lead to support the Compartmented Enterprise Services Office (CESO) in Arlington, VA. This role involves building a modern Secure Web Service (SWS) operation on a cutting-edge, highly automated platform designed to support a rapidly expanding customer base. You will help drive CESO's migration to a high-security cloud environment, delivering key capabilities such as network and communication services, monitoring services, and system administration. **Primary Responsibilities:** - Engineer and architect the database architecture to support modernization initiatives - Translate mission outcomes and prioritized product backlog items into technical delivery plans and sprint goals - Develop, maintain, and evolve a modernized database architecture aligned to modernization initiatives, including cloud adoption - Design, implement, and test database architecture solutions that improve scalability, resilience, security, and performance - Re-engineer and transition legacy databases to modernized architectures while enabling coexistence across on-premises and cloud ecosystems - Gather, define, and refine database and reporting requirements for internal and external users - Maintain enterprise architecture documentation and technical artifacts - Lead development and integration of secure APIs, data pipelines - Implement DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability, and security controls - Implement software release version control and provide release management support **Organizational & Technical Leadership:** - Define and drive long-term technical strategy and architectural direction across teams - Oversee the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions - Serve as a senior technical authority and escalation point for cross-team and cross-domain issues - Champion engineering excellence, including automated testing, CI/CD, reliability, and security - Establish standards, best practices, and governance for software development - Guide the responsible adoption of generative 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 platform and technical investments - Incorporate customer feedback, operational insights, and data to drive product improvements **Cross-Functional & Executive Collaboration:** - Act as a key engineering representative in cross-functional and leadership discussions - Communicate technical vision, risks, and progress to senior leadership - Influence product strategy through deep understanding of users and technical constraints - Drive alignment across engineering, product, design, and operations **Basic Qualifications:** - Active TS/SCI security clearance - BA and 12+ years of experience - Proven track record of leading multiple teams and delivering complex software systems - Demonstrated leadership skills and attention to detail - Minimum of 10 years of hands-on technical experience in at least three of the following areas: Oracle, SQL Server, Java, engineered systems, cloud technologies, data integration, automated testing and deployments, and DevSecOps - Hands-on full-SDLC Agile Software Development experience - Experience designing, building, and deploying DevOps pipelines with Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, and Ansible - Exceptional leadership, communication, 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 **Preferred Qualifications:** - Prior experience with DISA and DISA's support to mission partners - Prior experience leading database modernization and transformation initiatives - Experience in high-availability, mission-critical, or large-scale federal enterprise systems - Demonstrated success leading teams responsible for database architecture standards, engineering governance, integration, and technical problem resolution - Experience working in environments that require close coordination with government stakeholders, cross-functional technical teams, and multiple contractors ## Skills ### Required - Agile workflows - Database architecture - Cloud adoption - DevSecOps - CI/CD pipelines - JavaScript - GitLab - Jenkins - Ansible Automation - Java - PSSQL - YAML - Terraform - Gradle - PowerShell - Java Full Stack - Oracle 19c - Apache HTTP - Apache Tomcat - Webservices ### Nice to have - DISA - Database modernization - High-availability systems - Mission-critical systems - Federal enterprise systems --- Source: [Apply at leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Arlington-VA/Lead-Software-Engineer--Data---DevSecOps_R-00192727?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)