Engineer Lead
$150,000–$195,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Shape technical direction for IRS engineering platforms, automation, and AI-enabled services by translating complex security and compliance requirements into reusable capabilities. Mentor engineers, define growth plans, and manage team processes while partnering with stakeholders to advocate for best technical solutions. Lead technical discovery, architecture reviews, and planning sessions to convert ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans and deliverable engineering work. Produce documentation, training, and operational guidance to support platform adoption and improve developer experience through simplified tooling.
Required Qualifications
- Twelve or more years of relevant engineering experience
- A masters degree, or equivalent additional experience in lieu of a degree
- Two or more years of mentoring, coaching, or technical leadership experience
- Experience coordinating engineering work to support delivery
- Must meet federal suitability requirements and pass a background investigation as a condition of employment
- Experience designing and delivering production software
- Experience delivering APIs
- Experience delivering CI/CD systems
- Experience delivering engineering platforms
- Experience delivering infrastructure automation
- Experience delivering data pipelines
- Experience integrating security controls into engineering workflows
- Experience integrating compliance controls into engineering workflows
- Experience integrating testing controls into engineering workflows
- Experience integrating quality controls into engineering workflows
- Experience with cloud-native platforms
- Experience with containers
- Experience with infrastructure as code
- Experience with source control
- Experience with automated testing
- Experience with production operations
- Strong written communication skills
- Strong verbal communication skills
- Ability to explain technical decisions to federal and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to explain technical tradeoffs to federal and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to work effectively in environments with evolving priorities
- Ability to work effectively in environments with incomplete requirements
- Ability to work effectively in environments with multiple organizational dependencies
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with federal ATO processes
- Experience with RMF
- Experience with NIST controls
- Experience with continuous monitoring
- Experience with compliance evidence automation
- Experience with Red Hat Developer Hub
- Experience with Backstage
- Experience with OpenShift
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with Helm
- Experience with Terraform
- Experience with GitHub Actions
- Experience with Jenkins
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation
- Experience with vector databases
- Experience with LLM integrations
- Experience with AI agents
- Experience with multi-agent orchestration
- Experience with data ingestion
- Experience with data transformation
- Experience with data orchestration
- Experience with metadata management
- Experience with analytics
- Experience with data governance
- Experience with policy as code
- Experience with software supply-chain security
- Experience with automated security scanning
- Experience with audit evidence collection
- Experience integrating GitHub
- Experience integrating Jira
- Experience integrating identity providers
- Experience integrating artifact repositories
- Experience integrating security tools
- Experience integrating enterprise systems
- General understanding of government contracting requirements
- General understanding of government regulations
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