Tech Lead

Leidos•Chantilly, VA

3d•$154,050 - $278,475

About The Position

Leidos is seeking an Engineering Tech Lead for a 200+ FTE technical development program supporting the Sponsor’s IdAM/ICAM program, including Authentication, Authorization, Attributes, Entitlement Management, and Digital Policy Management. The role supports the evolution of ICAM for the unclassified space by building new services and web applications and integrating new Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. The Tech Lead serves as lead engineer for a team taking requirements through design and technical implementation to delivery. The role also involves participating in deployment and administration of tools and integration testing, and leading an agile team of developers, system administrators, and testers through delivery. Significant hands-on systems architecture and engineering experience is expected. Knowledge of ICAM concepts such as Identity Providers, Secure Token Services, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and LDAP is highly desirable.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
Master’s degree and 15+ years of experience; additional experience may be substituted for the degree.
Experience with IdAM/ICAM services and customers’ security accreditation (A&A) process for system approval.
Experience with cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Systems Engineering experience, including requirements and system interface analysis for an enterprise-scale development project.
Experience developing and maintaining interface control documents between components in an enterprise operational system.
Strong communication between development teams and stakeholders regarding the intent of requirements and user stories.
Ability to translate user requirements into achievable agile sprint stories and acceptance criteria.
Experience with agile project management methodologies, including managing product backlogs.
Significant hands-on systems architecture and engineering experience.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of ICAM concepts such as Identity Providers, Secure Token Services, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and LDAP.
Innovative thinking and a desire to learn and take the lead on challenging problems.
Experience with requirements management on a program interacting with and supporting multiple customers.
Experience with SaaS ICAM vendors such as Ping, Okta, or SavyInt.
Experience as a Scrum Master.
Experience with CloudFormation, Puppet, Groovy, or other configuration and automation tools.
Experience with containers.
Experience troubleshooting networks between cloud and non-cloud environments.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Ansible, Terraform, or other configuration and automation tools.
Solid understanding of Web Application Firewall (WAF) configuration and management.
Experience with networking, including ports, routing tables, subnets, VPNs, firewalls, and routers, including design, integration, and troubleshooting.
Experience working in a cloud-based environment such as AWS.

Responsibilities

Provide technical guidance to the team’s System Engineers and Developers.
Work closely with the team’s PM to ensure the technical baseline meets delivery requirements, schedules, and milestones.
Work with the Portfolio Solution Architect to develop the future vision and drive it into the unclassified solution.
Provide status updates to the contract PMO and government staff lead.
Assist with monthly Technical Program Management Review (PMR) charts and support the internal RRB process.
Represent the team at staff meetings, requirements meetings, tech lead meetings, and TEMs.
Support defining requirements and breaking work efforts into actionable tasks for the development team.
Provide technical diagrams, charts, and systems documentation.
Ensure designs are compatible with architecture and security requirements.
Work with the team’s security engineer to address or mitigate security findings from system security scans.
Develop a deep understanding of the system’s engineering and design and communicate it to internal and external audiences.
Work with the government staff lead and project team lead to prioritize work.
Research technologies and products that can modernize the Sponsor’s ICAM footprint.
Guide and advise technical staff in implementing services and tools.
Work with the PM to align the team, share technical direction, and evaluate technology assumptions and alternatives.
Lead an agile team of developers, system administrators, and testers through delivery.
Participate in tool deployment and administration and integration testing.