Lead Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Maryland.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with leadership to define the technical vision of the program.

• Lead and mentor engineering teams while gaining experience in people management.

• Oversee the design and implementation of engineering platforms, automation, and AI-driven services for IRS teams.

• Convert security, compliance, and operational needs into reusable platform functionalities.

• Establish technical direction for internal developer platforms, CI/CD services, engineering automation, and AI tools.

• Design reusable platform services, APIs, templates, workflows, and integrations.

• Transform ATO, NIST, RMF, and IRS security requirements into automated controls, policy checks, evidence collection, and approval workflows.

• Develop capabilities for the internal developer platform using Red Hat Developer Hub, Backstage, OpenShift, and GitHub.

• Create self-service workflows for project onboarding, software requests, access, environments, infrastructure, and deployments.

• Build and maintain reusable CI/CD workflows.

• Design and integrate AI solutions, including retrieval-augmented generation chatbots, multi-agent systems, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.

• Develop or support data integrations, data pipelines, metadata services, analytics, and reporting capabilities.

• Lead technical discovery, architecture reviews, demonstrations, planning sessions, and discussions with stakeholders.

• Interpret ambiguous requirements into technical plans and engineering deliverables.

• Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, enhance team practices, and support hiring and professional growth.

• Produce documentation, training materials, and operational guidance to support platform adoption.

• Engage in bid-writing, technical demonstrations, strategic planning, and client-facing communications as necessary.

• Assist in hiring, performance management, timecard reviews, PTO management, and team development.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of twelve years of relevant engineering experience and a master's degree, or equivalent additional experience in lieu of a degree.

• At least two years of mentoring, coaching, or technical leadership experience, including coordinating engineering efforts to support delivery.

• Must fulfill federal suitability requirements and successfully pass a background investigation as a condition of employment.

• Proven experience in designing and delivering production software, APIs, CI/CD systems, engineering platforms, infrastructure automation, or data pipelines.

• Familiarity with integrating security, compliance, testing, and quality controls into engineering workflows.

• Experience with cloud-native platforms, containers, infrastructure as code, source control, automated testing, and production operations.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to articulate technical decisions and tradeoffs to federal and non-technical stakeholders.

• Capability to work effectively amidst changing priorities, incomplete requirements, and multiple organizational dependencies.

• Preferred: experience with federal ATO processes, RMF, NIST controls, continuous monitoring, or compliance evidence automation.

• Preferred: experience with Red Hat Developer Hub, Backstage, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.

• Preferred: experience with retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, LLM integrations, AI agents, or multi-agent orchestration.

• Preferred: experience with data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, metadata management, analytics, or data governance.

• Preferred: experience with policy as code, software supply-chain security, automated security scanning, or audit evidence collection.

• Preferred: experience integrating GitHub, Jira, identity providers, artifact repositories, security tools, and enterprise systems.

• Preferred: general understanding of government contracting requirements and regulations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible PTO.

• 401K with employer match.

• Paid parental leave after one year of service.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Remote work environment.

• Opportunities for professional and team development.