Software Engineering & Platforms Manager

Leidos•Alexandria, VA

About The Position

Leidos is seeking an experienced Software Engineering & Platforms Manager to lead software engineering, DevSecOps, data platforms, and enterprise automation initiatives supporting the United States Coast Guard's Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, and Intelligence Service Center (C5ISC) in Alexandria, Virginia. The manager will lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for developing, integrating, modernizing, and sustaining mission-critical software platforms and enterprise technology solutions. The role partners with government leadership, cross-functional technical teams, and industry partners to improve engineering practices, accelerate digital modernization, strengthen platform capabilities, and deliver scalable solutions supporting Coast Guard missions. The position provides technical leadership, strategic direction, and delivery oversight across software engineering and enterprise platforms. It bridges technical execution, program management, and customer engagement, with accountability for engineering quality, operational performance, and delivery of mission-critical capabilities. The portfolio includes DevSecOps and Software Platforms (DSOP), Data Fabric, and Enterprise Automation (UiPath), with work spanning engineering teams, roadmaps, schedules, resources, technical risks, modernization, and workforce development.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience, subject to program requirements.
At least 8 years of progressively responsible software, platform, DevSecOps, data, automation, or related engineering experience, including at least 3 years supporting federal government contracts or programs.
At least 4 years of direct technical people management or engineering leadership, including oversight of multidisciplinary teams and multiple concurrent delivery workstreams.
Strong technical depth in software/platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud-based systems, or enterprise integration, with the ability to evaluate designs and resolve complex technical issues.
Experience delivering through Agile/DevSecOps practices and managing schedules, resources, backlogs, dependencies, quality, risks, and customer commitments.
Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, software security, APIs/integration patterns, cloud services (AWS and/or Azure), and operational sustainment.
Ability to lead specialists across diverse technology areas without serving as the primary hands-on administrator of every platform.
Excellent written, verbal, stakeholder-management, and executive briefing skills.
Current and active Public Trust clearance, consistent with existing USCG Cloud Modernization position requirements, and ability to maintain required access.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting DHS, USCG, DoD, or similarly complex federal civilian modernization programs.
Experience managing teams of 10 or more technical personnel, including technical leads, product managers, vendors, and subcontractor partners.
Practical familiarity with GitLab, Atlassian/Jira/Confluence, Appian, Databricks, Confluent, Kong, Qlik, and UiPath; deep expertise in every listed platform is not required.
Experience integrating enterprise data platforms, low-code platforms, automation capabilities, and secure cloud-native services.
Experience with NIST RMF, FISMA, ATO requirements, secure software delivery, and Zero Trust principles.
PMP, Certified ScrumMaster, AWS/Azure technical certification, or relevant DevSecOps, data, or automation credentials.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, recruit, develop, and evaluate multidisciplinary software, platform, DevSecOps, site reliability, data, integration, automation, product, and technical teams; establish accountability and succession depth.
Own integrated technical delivery across DevSecOps and Software Platforms (DSOP), Data Fabric, and Enterprise Automation (UiPath), aligning roadmaps, priorities, resources, schedules, dependencies, and outcomes with USCG stakeholders.
Provide technical leadership through architecture and design reviews, troubleshooting, technical tradeoff analysis, and quality assurance, guiding secure, scalable, maintainable, mission-focused solutions.
Oversee DevSecOps engineering, CI/CD toolchains, GitLab and Atlassian ecosystems, code security, platform engineering, site reliability, and low-code application platform support including Appian.
Guide data platform and integration engineering across Databricks, Confluent and streaming services, Kong/API management, Qlik analytics, data pipelines, and data governance; support interoperability, security, and operational readiness.
Direct enterprise automation delivery, including UiPath platform operations, robotic process automation development, process automation, bot lifecycle management, infrastructure, and customer adoption.
Coordinate technical interfaces, integration dependencies, delivery expectations, and knowledge transfer with the Enlighten partner team supporting the COASTAL cyber data platform, application support, data integration, and mission analytics.
Partner with Cloud Engineering, Cloud Operations, Cybersecurity, PMO, government product owners, and external vendors to deliver secure solutions aligned with federal security requirements, DevSecOps practices, and operational handoff.
Manage integrated work plans, Agile backlogs, milestones, estimates, staffing capacity, technical risks, issue resolution, performance metrics, and delivery commitments; provide transparent reporting and corrective actions.
Advise USCG and Leidos leadership and present technical recommendations, architecture alternatives, status, tradeoffs, risks, and mitigation strategies to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Oversee technical documentation, implementation plans, design artifacts, runbooks, governance decisions, and continuous-improvement efforts across the software and platform portfolio.