Data Sharing Environment Lead

Leidos•Washington, DC

13d

About The Position

At Leidos, innovation is at the heart of everything we do. Powered by a team as diverse as it is talented, we're driven by a shared passion for delivering bold solutions that fuel our customers' success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Every action we take is grounded in integrity and a steadfast commitment to doing what’s right—for our customers, our teams, and the world around us. Our Mission, Vision, and Values aren't just words—they're the compass guiding our journey toward a brighter future. The Leidos Digital Modernization Sector is seeking a highly experienced Data Sharing Environment Lead to work on a key program supporting the U.S. Department of State to lead the architecture and maintenance of the current Service Oriented data sharing environment. This environment is used to connect application components and ensure smooth functioning within the suite of applications. environment. This role serves as the primary interface for the data sharing environment working in coordination with the PMO and the government, overseeing all aspects of scope status. The Data Sharing Environment Lead will be responsible for the data sharing environment as well as providing leadership, strategic direction, and day-to-day oversight for all team personnel. This includes ensuring technical excellence, operational efficiency, and ensuring Service Level Agreement metrics are exceeded. The ideal candidate will be proactive, responsive, and collaborative, with the ability to build and lead high-performing teams, maintain strong customer relationships, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Requirements

Active Secret security clearance.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
10+ years of experience in enterprise application integration, middleware engineering, service-oriented architecture, API engineering, or related data sharing / systems integration roles.
6+ years of experience leading technical teams responsible for designing, implementing, operating, and modernizing enterprise data sharing environments.
Demonstrated experience architecting, developing, and maintaining service-oriented and API-based integration solutions, including SOAP, REST, WSDL, XML, and related web services standards.
Demonstrated experience with Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and middleware platforms in complex production environments.
Hands-on experience with one or more relevant enterprise middleware / integration technologies, such as Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Service Bus, WebLogic, API gateways, XML security gateways, or equivalent platforms.
Experience designing and supporting secure bidirectional interfaces between internal enterprise platforms and external partner systems.
Experience standardizing and implementing reusable data-sharing patterns, interface services, and enterprise integration services in a large, distributed environment.
Experience supporting production operations, including incident response, root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, performance tuning, patching, and operational monitoring for mission-critical services.
Experience supporting high availability, continuity of operations, and disaster recovery for integration or middleware environments.
Experience producing and maintaining technical documentation such as interface control documents, architecture diagrams, integration specifications, and operational procedures.
Demonstrated understanding of secure systems integration, including PKI-enabled communications, access control, encryption, and interface security in a federal or similarly regulated environment.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical status, risks, and recommendations to customer stakeholders, program leadership, engineers, and operations teams.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.
Experience supporting the U.S. Department of State, consular systems, or other federal mission environments involving interagency data exchange, vetting, border security, identity services, or case processing systems.
Prior experience supporting or leading modernization of a legacy SOA / ESB environment into more modern API-led, microservices, or cloud-enabled integration patterns.
Experience with Oracle-centric enterprise environments, particularly Oracle databases, WebLogic, Oracle Service Bus, and related Oracle middleware technologies.
Experience implementing CI/CD, deployment automation, DevSecOps practices, and automated testing for enterprise integration and middleware services.
Familiarity with NIST, W3C, OASIS, and other relevant standards applicable to secure service-oriented and web-service-based data exchange.
Experience coordinating with infrastructure, firewall, network, cybersecurity, and application teams to establish and sustain secure external partner connectivity.
Experience with monitoring, observability, service performance analytics, and SLA-driven operational reporting for integration services.
Experience preparing or maintaining ISA, ICD, data exchange agreements, and other interagency technical artifacts.
Proven ability to lead technical teams in a high-volume, high-availability, mission-critical environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
Relevant certifications in cloud, integration, middleware, security, or program delivery disciplines are desirable.

Responsibilities

Lead the Data Sharing Environment workstream and supervise the technical team responsible for CST’s service-oriented data sharing environment.
Architect, engineer, maintain, and modernize the current SOA-based data sharing environment supporting CCD and interagency information exchange.
Design and implement secure SOA, microservices, APIs, and bidirectional data interfaces using established web service and integration standards.
Standardize and implement a finite set of external data-sharing patterns to improve consistency, scalability, and speed of delivery.
Develop, enhance, and maintain CCD-based web services, reusable enterprise services, and core data exchange capabilities.
Operate, optimize, patch, and troubleshoot the ESB and middleware environment, including Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Service Bus, WebLogic, XML security gateway, Layer 7/API gateways, and PKI-enabled services.
Build and support automated deployments, testing, and CI/CD-style delivery pipelines for data sharing services.
Implement monitoring, reporting, performance optimization, and operational controls across the data sharing environment.
Support high availability, disaster recovery, production incident response, and Tier III troubleshooting for mission-critical data sharing services that support vetting and border security.
Enhance and establish secure interagency data-share feeds in coordination with network and firewall teams.
Re-architect legacy data sharing capabilities and support transition to modernized integration patterns and target-state architecture.
Maintain technical documentation, design artifacts, and interagency agreements, including ISA and ICD materials, and ensure data is shared accurately, appropriately, securely, and on time with partner agencies.