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Software Systems Technical Lead (Top Secret minimum cleared)

OnDek Solutions
Chantilly, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/9/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/5/2025

Job Description

We are in search of a Technical Lead to lead the modernization of a geospatial product supporting mission critical operations. The candidate will provide leadership to invigorate technical innovation and must be willing to drive smart change to support a collaborative and innovative culture to provide our customer with optimal solutions that meet their strategic goals. A successful candidate will have experience with the Microsoft technology stack, AWS services, and related software and networking design and implementation.

Responsibilities :

Primary responsibilities will involve taking a leadership role in system assessment, recommendations, and solution implementation.

  • Become a subject matter expert (SME) for the baseline, with the ability to communicate the system's features, architecture, roadmap, and limitations to a variety of audiences
  • Decompose requirements, use cases, and need statements into epics and features with clearly defined acceptance criteria that will be assigned to agile development teams
  • Take part in migration of a legacy systems to model cloud-based architectures, leveraging modern cloud native technologies.
  • Ensure the security, reliability, and maintainability of internally facing applications and services
  • Ability to clearly describe and analyze a problem and to articulate a solution
  • Provide hands-on technical support to the team (systems engineering, software development, testing)
  • Execute analysis of alternatives (AoA) and prototypes to determine the design of new system features and capabilities
  • Participate and provide subject matter expertise in technical exchange meetings and other customer or stakeholder forums
  • Manage the system requirements and maintain technical requirement documents
  • Create and communicate design artifacts to the team to ensure applications and services are built to support the business and architecture objectives
  • Provide subject matter expertise and support agile development teams in the continuous integration of epics and features

Required Qualifications :

  • Must possess an active Top Secret Security Clearance with ability to obtain SCI post hire
  • Requires a BS in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related discipline and 8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 years of prior relevant experience; OR 10 years of experience in lieu of degree
  • DOD 8570 Certification (Security or equivalent or higher)
  • Experience with Microsoft .NET ecosystem tools such as VB .NET , C# , C , Visual Studio, WPF
  • Firm understanding of object-oriented design , data structures and design patterns
  • Experience designing and developing UI / UX that simplify complex workflows while keeping designs flexible
  • Experience working with large code bases
  • Experience writing testable software
  • GIS experience and knowledge of roaster and imagery
  • Experience with System (hardware, software and networking) Design and Architecture
  • Experience developing a technical roadmap
  • Ability to lead and prioritize systems engineering and architecture requirements
  • Database experience such as PostgreSQL
  • Web Application and application workflow experience
  • Experience preparing presentations and leading technical exchange meetings
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience briefing stakeholders at all levels
  • Knowledge of Systems, Architectural, SW Development and SW Sustainment methodologies and practices
  • Proficient in software development projects or software integration projects in a service-oriented environment (Cloud, SOA, Web-Services) or virtualization environment.
  • Experience with AWS architectures and technologies
  • Familiar with Amazon Web Services (S3 Buckets, EC2, Reserved Instances, etc.)
  • Familiar with Git / GitLab or other source code control tools
  • Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, diagrams, etc.)
  • Familiar with team collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence)
  • Preferred Qualifications :

  • Experience leading systems engineering support for geospatial products
  • Experience writing, maintaining, and presenting architecture diagrams
  • Microsoft certification(s)
  • AWS certification (e.g. Solutions Architect, Developer, DevOps Engineer)
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