Tech Lead

Leidos•Chantilly, VA

About The Position

Leidos is seeking an Engineering Tech Lead for a 200+ FTE technical development program supporting the Sponsor’s Identity and Access Management (IdAM) and Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) program. The program includes authentication, authorization, attributes, entitlement management, and digital policy management. The role supports the evolution of ICAM for the unclassified space, including building services and web applications and integrating Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. The Tech Lead leads engineers through requirements, design, technical implementation, and delivery. The role also participates in tool deployment and administration and integration testing, and leads an agile team of developers, system administrators, and testers. It requires significant hands-on systems architecture and engineering experience. 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 accepted in lieu of a degree.
Experience with IdAM/ICAM services and the customer security accreditation (A&A) process for system approval.
Experience with cloud environments 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 skills for conveying the intent of requirements and user stories between the development team and stakeholders.
Ability to translate user requirements into agile sprint stories and achievable 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.
Experience with requirements management on a program that interacts with and supports 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.
Network engineering troubleshooting between cloud and non-cloud environments.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Ansible or Terraform, or other configuration and automation tools.
Solid understanding of Web Application Firewall (WAF) configuration and management.
Experience with networking concepts and technologies—including ports, routing tables, subnets, VPNs, firewalls, and routers—for design, integration, and troubleshooting.
Experience working in a cloud-based AWS environment.

Responsibilities

Provide technical guidance to the team’s System Engineers and Developers.
Work with the team’s Project Manager to ensure the technical baseline meets delivery requirements, schedule, and milestones.
Work with the Portfolio Solution Architect to build the future vision and drive it into the unclassified solution.
Provide status updates to the contract PMO and government staff lead.
Help complete monthly Technical Program Management Review (PMR) charts and support the internal RRB process.
Represent the team at staff, requirements, and tech lead meetings, and at Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs).
Support requirements definition and break work efforts into actionable tasks for the development team.
Provide technical diagrams, charts, and system documentation.
Ensure designs are compatible with architecture and security requirements.
Work with the team’s security engineer to address or mitigate findings from system security scans.
Understand the system’s engineering and design in depth and explain 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 Project Manager 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, including participating in tool deployment, administration, and integration testing.