Lead Agile Software Engineer

Leidos has an open Lead Agile Software Engineer position supporting the Mission Planning and Analysis Common Services (MPACS) contract.  As an MPACS Lead Agile Software Engineer, you are an integral part of a team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way to support USSTRATCOM’s mission objectives.  In this role, you will lead multiple Agile development teams to deliver innovative solutions that enhance capability, reduce sustainment costs, and provide the flexibility to adapt quickly to evolving customer needs. You will be responsible for understanding high-level features and desired outcomes, both current and future, and assisting Agile teams in building, analyzing, and understanding these outcomes. You will oversee the application-level outcomes, prioritize them, and maintain a roadmap of capability improvements in collaboration with the Government. Your expertise in formulating software designs will be essential in creating solutions that meet various desired outcomes while balancing goals and constraints such as customer environment, cybersecurity, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD). Effective communication of the software architecture to both Government and Agile teams with varying levels of technical understanding is critical. You will verify implementations to ensure the delivered software aligns with the agreed architecture and meets the desired outcomes. Additionally, you will manage changes to the software architecture, control software complexity, and ensure that design goals such as performance, modularity, reliability, maintainability, reusability, and accessibility are met. Your leadership will extend to conducting design reviews, providing feedback, and ensuring that the backlog addresses any quality issues and technical debt related to architecture. Identifying software risks early in the development cycle and providing a documented basis for architectural decisions will also be key responsibilities.

Primary Responsibilities.

• Lead multiple Agile development team(s) to deliver solutions with architectures that provide capability improvements, reduced sustainment costs and flexibility to adapt quickly to customer needs.

• Understand high-level features and desired outcomes (both now and in the future). Assist Agile Team(s) in building, understanding, and analyzing desired outcomes. 

• Responsible for the application-level outcomes, prioritization of those outcomes, and maintaining a roadmap of capability improvements (in conjunction with the Government) related to the software’s architecture and end-to-end design.

• Formulate software designs that create solutions meeting various desired outcomes (both now and in the future) while balancing the goals and constraints on the solutions (e.g., customer environment, cybersecurity, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), etc.).

• Clearly communicate the software architecture to Government and Agile teams with varying levels of technical understanding.

• Verify implementation to validate that the delivered software is consistent with the agreed architecture and will meet the desired outcomes.

• Manage changes to the software architecture and control software complexity.

• Defend against, when appropriate, suggested changes to the software architecture that introduce undue complexity or future supportability issues. Assist with trade-off analyses of increased complexity.

• Ensure the design goals – Performance, Modularity, Reliability, Maintainability, Reusability and Accessibility – are met

• Design, test, and evaluate technologies and vendor solutions for inclusion into existing architecture to solve technical or customer problems

• Lead design reviews & provides feedback

• Ensure backlog includes any quality issues and technical debt relating to architecture

• Clarify quality software requirements

• Identify software risks early in the development cycle

• Provide a documented basis for architectural decisions

Basic Qualifications

• BS degree in a technical discipline with 12+ years of recent experience in software development processes designing, developing, and implementing enterprise-scale technology. Additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of degree.

• Secret clearance with ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI clearance

• Minimum of five (5) years of proven experience leading teams in developing architectures.

• 5 years’ experience leading projects using Agile/Scrum development processes and DevSecOps (including continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), services, continuous security, and containerization with the associated automation techniques) principles.

• Experience designing enterprise architecture with modern, enabling technologies and processes, e.g., cloud computing, CI/CD, virtualization, agile design and development, JavaScript frameworks, REST services, standards-based authentication, and authorization protocols.

• Experience collaborating with cybersecurity, product owners, users and developers to design and communicate an innovative and secure architecture that enables continuous software delivery.

• Experience decomposing monolithic software into manageable pieces, especially in related software domains.

• Experience designing shared services like caching, eventing, and messaging in a distributed environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Top Secret / SCI clearance

• Experience with the USSTRATCOM ISPAN domain.

Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.