{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"99d2d045abacb98684b3487e","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/99d2d045abacb98684b3487e","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/99d2d045abacb98684b3487e","title":"Technical Lead","description":"Description:\n\nAbout the Role:\n\nWe are seeking a strategic, highly collaborative Program Tech Lead to provide overarching technical direction for a large-scale, multi-disciplinary program. In this role, you will be the technical compass for a matrixed engineering organization spread across multiple contracting teams, product-focused scrum teams, and discipline-specific shared services.\n\nThis is primarily a strategic, directional, and highly collaborative leadership role rather than a hands-on coding position. We are looking for a strong \"T-shaped\" engineering leader. You are not expected to be the Subject Matter Expert in every single technology we use; rather, you possess deep, authoritative expertise in one or two core areas (like AWS architecture and modern software development) and a broad enough understanding of everything else to converse intelligently, guide decisions, and empower our dedicated discipline leads. (And if you ever want to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty in your area of depth, we certainly won’t stop you!)\n\nAs an AI-native leader, you will also play a critical role as a coach and advocate, guiding our developers through a fast-moving, transformative era of software development and ensuring we get the maximum value out of modern agentic coding tools. You will serve as the crucial bridge between government stakeholders, product/delivery teams, and our engineering squads, ensuring that our front end, back end, data, and AI systems seamlessly integrate into a highly scalable, secure, and modern ecosystem.\n\n What you'll be doing:\n\nChampion AI-Native Engineering: Act as a coach and advocate for our developers using agentic coding tools (such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini, and Codex). Even when you aren't writing the code yourself, you will guide the team on advanced context engineering and best practices to accelerate delivery.\nDrive Strategic Architecture & Delivery: Balance a long-range, big-picture mindset with the need to deliver immediate value. You will architect solutions that ensure we don't box ourselves in for the future, while partnering with stakeholders to define lean MVPs and execute iterative, fast follows.\nNegotiate Scope & Trade-offs: Take a primary role in working with government stakeholders and the product/delivery team to understand complex requirements, estimate Level of Effort (LOE), negotiate scope, and make reasonable trade-offs to deliver quality software on time.\nNavigate Ambiguity: Successfully operate in an environment with uncertain scope or changing requirements, applying agile principles to keep the engineering teams aligned and moving forward.\nEmpower Multi-Disciplinary Teams: Provide overarching technical guidance across a wide range of disciplines, relying on and collaborating tightly with our dedicated discipline leads in:\nFront end and back end application development\nCloud infrastructure and DevOps\nAI/ML models and infrastructure\nData pipelines, data warehousing, analytics, and BI dashboards\n Foster Cross-Ecosystem Collaboration: Act as the technical linchpin, collaborating not just internally, but externally with contractors on other programs who serve as our downstream consumers, upstream dependencies, or peers.\n\nWhat you'll bring:\n\nAn \"AI Native\" Mindset:Deep understanding of modern agentic coding tools and how to maximize their value. You understand the importance of context engineering and know how to coach a team through this rapidly evolving technological landscape.\nDeep AWS & Architecture Expertise:Proven experience designing, deploying, and overseeing complex, highly scalable enterprise systems on AWS.\nA \"T-Shaped\" Leadership Profile:Broad knowledge across the full software development lifecycle combined with deep technical expertise in at least one or two core areas. You know enough to ask the right questions, but are comfortable delegating depth to your discipline leads.\nSystems Thinking:A strong ability to step back from individual teams to see the big picture, understanding how disparate systems integrate and scale together.\nExceptional Stakeholder Management:You excel at translating complex technical realities into clear business value, managing expectations, and driving consensus among varied vendor teams and government clients.\nPragmatism and Agility:A solution-oriented mindset that prioritizes solving the actual problem, delivering value early, and adapting quickly to new information.\n\nBonus if you have:\n\nExperience navigating federal security and compliance standards, including FedRAMP, FISMA, or guiding systems through the ATO (Authority to Operate) process.\nFamiliarity with our specific modern data stack, which heavily leverages AWS (S3, RedShift, Aurora, EKS, SQS, SNS, QuickSight), OpenMetadata, Argo Workflows, dbt, and Python.\nFamiliarity with modern AI/ML infrastructure, specifically integrating managed services like AWS Bedrock or similar generative AI tools.\n\nRequirements:\n\n4 Year Degree & 10+ years of experience\nApplicants must be authorized to work in the United States. In alignment with federal contract requirements, certain roles may also require U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a federal background investigation and/or a security clearance.\nRequirements:\n\nWhat you'll be doing:\n\n Champion AI-Native Engineering: Act as a coach and advocate for our developers using agentic coding tools (such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini, and Codex). Even when you aren't writing the code yourself, you will guide the team on advanced context engineering and best practices to accelerate delivery.\n Drive Strategic Architecture & Delivery: Balance a long-range, big-picture mindset with the need to deliver immediate value. You will architect solutions that ensure we don't box ourselves in for the future, while partnering with stakeholders to define lean MVPs and execute iterative, fast follows.\n Negotiate Scope & Trade-offs: Take a primary role in working with government stakeholders and the product/delivery team to understand complex requirements, estimate Level of Effort (LOE), negotiate scope, and make reasonable trade-offs to deliver quality software on time.\n Navigate Ambiguity: Successfully operate in an environment with uncertain scope or changing requirements, applying agile principles to keep the engineering teams aligned and moving forward.\nEmpower Multi-Disciplinary Teams: Provide overarching technical guidance across a wide range of disciplines, relying on and collaborating tightly with our dedicated discipline leads in:\nFront end and back end application development\nCloud infrastructure and DevOps\nAI/ML models and infrastructure\nData pipelines, data warehousing, analytics, and BI dashboards\n Foster Cross-Ecosystem Collaboration: Act as the technical linchpin, collaborating not just internally, but externally with contractors on other programs who serve as our downstream consumers, upstream dependencies, or peers.\n\nWhat you'll bring:\n\nAn \"AI Native\" Mindset:Deep understanding of modern agentic coding tools and how to maximize their value. You understand the importance of context engineering and know how to coach a team through this rapidly evolving technological landscape.\nDeep AWS & Architecture Expertise:Proven experience designing, deploying, and overseeing complex, highly scalable enterprise systems on AWS.\nA \"T-Shaped\" Leadership Profile:Broad knowledge across the full software development lifecycle combined with deep technical expertise in at least one or two core areas. You know enough to ask the right questions, but are comfortable delegating depth to your discipline leads.\nSystems Thinking:A strong ability to step back from individual teams to see the big picture, understanding how disparate systems integrate and scale together.\nExceptional Stakeholder Management:You excel at translating complex technical realities into clear business value, managing expectations, and driving consensus among varied vendor teams and government clients.\nPragmatism and Agility:A solution-oriented mindset that prioritizes solving the actual problem, delivering value early, and adapting quickly to new information.\n\nBonus if you have:\n\nExperience navigating federal security and compliance standards, including FedRAMP, FISMA, or guiding systems through the ATO (Authority to Operate) process.\nFamiliarity with our specific modern data stack, which heavily leverages AWS (S3, RedShift, Aurora, EKS, SQS, SNS, QuickSight), OpenMetadata, Argo Workflows, dbt, and Python.\nFamiliarity with modern AI/ML infrastructure, specifically integrating managed services like AWS Bedrock or similar generative AI tools.\n\nRequirements:\n\n4 Year Degree & 10+ years of experience\nApplicants must be authorized to work in the United States. 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You will architect solutions that ensure we don't box ourselves in for the future, while partnering with stakeholders to define lean MVPs and execute iterative, fast follows.\n Negotiate Scope & Trade-offs: Take a primary role in working with government stakeholders and the product/delivery team to understand complex requirements, estimate Level of Effort (LOE), negotiate scope, and make reasonable trade-offs to deliver quality software on time.\n Navigate Ambiguity: Successfully operate in an environment with uncertain scope or changing requirements, applying agile principles to keep the engineering teams aligned and moving forward.\nEmpower Multi-Disciplinary Teams: Provide overarching technical guidance across a wide range of disciplines, relying on and collaborating tightly with our dedicated discipline leads in:\nFront end and back end application development\nCloud infrastructure and DevOps\nAI/ML models and infrastructure\nData pipelines, data warehousing, analytics, and BI dashboards\n Foster Cross-Ecosystem Collaboration: Act as the technical linchpin, collaborating not just internally, but externally with contractors on other programs who serve as our downstream consumers, upstream dependencies, or peers.\n\nWhat you'll bring:\n\nAn \"AI Native\" Mindset:Deep understanding of modern agentic coding tools and how to maximize their value. 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You know enough to ask the right questions, but are comfortable delegating depth to your discipline leads.\nSystems Thinking:A strong ability to step back from individual teams to see the big picture, understanding how disparate systems integrate and scale together.\nExceptional Stakeholder Management:You excel at translating complex technical realities into clear business value, managing expectations, and driving consensus among varied vendor teams and government clients.\nPragmatism and Agility:A solution-oriented mindset that prioritizes solving the actual problem, delivering value early, and adapting quickly to new information.\n\nBonus if you have:\n\nExperience navigating federal security and compliance standards, including FedRAMP, FISMA, or guiding systems through the ATO (Authority to Operate) process.\nFamiliarity with our specific modern data stack, which heavily leverages AWS (S3, RedShift, Aurora, EKS, SQS, SNS, QuickSight), OpenMetadata, Argo Workflows, dbt, and Python.\nFamiliarity with modern AI/ML infrastructure, specifically integrating managed services like AWS Bedrock or similar generative AI tools.\n\nRequirements:\n\n4 Year Degree & 10+ years of experience\nApplicants must be authorized to work in the United States. 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