Developer Experience & AI Enablement Lead

TSC; Huntsville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP participation

401k plan

Flexible work schedules

Tuition reimbursement

Health plan

Job summary

TSC is seeking a Developer Experience & AI Enablement Lead to drive enterprise software development practices and secure AI-enabled development across multiple units. Location options include Aurora, CO; Arlington, VA; or Huntsville, AL.

You will own the governance, tooling, and roadmaps to safely integrate generative AI into the SDLC while coordinating with Engineering, IT, Cybersecurity, Legal, and business leadership. A strong emphasis on collaboration and standards is required.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years in software engineering or DevSecOps with enterprise process enablement.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional technical initiatives across teams or business units.
• Practical understanding of secure software development practices, vulnerability management, SBOMs, and evidence retention.
• Familiarity with enterprise developer tooling such as GitHub/GitLab, Jira, Jenkins, and artifact repositories.
• US Government contracting experience; ability to obtain and maintain SECRET DoD clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise software development operating model and CI/CD practices across TSC units.
• Lead the roadmap for safely integrating generative AI and automated agents into the SDLC.
• Define standardized golden-path workflows, repo blueprints, branch-management practices, and CI/CD frameworks.
• Partner with engineering leaders to align implementations and drive adoption across teams.
• Translate cybersecurity policies, standards, and contractual requirements into engineering requirements and operating procedures.
• Coordinate secure development practices including code review, SAST/DAST, and SBOM management.
• Establish governance for open-source software and third-party dependencies.
• Lead AI usage guardrails with Cybersecurity, Legal, and Engineering.
• Define requirements for self-service infrastructure and automation for compliant repositories and pipelines.

Skills

Enterprise Dev

Secure SDLC

AI Enablement

Cross-functional

Governance

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

Jira

Jenkins

Job description

TSC is currently seeking a Developer Experience & AI Enablement Lead in Aurora, CO, Arlington, VA, or Huntsville, AL. In this role, the candidate will own the continuous improvement and adoption of enterprise software development processes, engineering standards, secure development practices, and AI-enabled development capabilities across TSC business units. The successful candidate will work closely with Engineering, IT, Cybersecurity, Legal, and business-unit leadership to translate technical and compliance requirements into practical workflows, tools, and operating practices.

TSC offers a professional working environment, a competitive salary, and an excellent benefits package. Come and join our team!

Responsibilities:

In this highly cross-functional role, you will treat internal product engineers as your primary customers. You will help establish consistent, secure, and scalable software development practices across TSC business units. Crucially, you will also lead the technical roadmap for safely integrating generative AI and automated agents into the end-to-end software development lifecycle (SDLC).

• Own and continuously improve the enterprise software development operating model, including lifecycle processes, engineering standards, repository practices, CI/CD expectations, security controls, release practices, and documentation requirements.
• Assess software development practices across TSC business units and develop a roadmap to improve consistency, maturity, developer experience, and risk management.
• Define and promote standardized “golden path” or paved-road workflows, repository blueprints, branch-management practices, CI/CD frameworks, and reusable engineering patterns.
• Partner with business-unit engineering leaders to align implementation, address legitimate differences, and support adoption across teams with varying tools and maturity levels.
• Translate cybersecurity policies, software development standards, and contractual requirements into practical engineering requirements, workflows, acceptance criteria, and operating procedures.
• Coordinate implementation of secure development practices, including code review, SAST/DAST, dependency and vulnerability management, secrets handling, SBOMs, release assurance, and evidence retention.
• Establish and improve governance for open-source software and third-party dependencies, including sourcing, licensing, repository management, traceability, scanning, approval processes, and exception handling.
• Lead the strategy for safely integrating generative AI assistants and agentic capabilities into the software development lifecycle, including planning, coding, testing, review, documentation, and data protection.
• Partner with Cybersecurity, Legal, and Engineering to define AI usage guardrails related to data access, intellectual property, controlled information, provenance, disclosure, and generated-code review.
• Define requirements for and coordinate the development of self-service infrastructure and automation that enable teams to create compliant repositories, pipelines, and development environments with minimal manual effort.
• Coordinate evaluations and implementation of developer-experience, CI/CD, artifact-management, scanning, SBOM, AI Gateway, and related enterprise tooling.
• Maintain roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, status reporting, requirements, and investment proposals for major initiatives.
• Facilitate cross-functional working groups and decision forums, clearly documenting options, tradeoffs, decisions, unresolved issues, and follow-up actions.
• Establish metrics for adoption, developer experience, delivery performance, and software development maturity; use those measures to guide continuous improvement.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, communications, training, and enablement to help engineering teams adopt enterprise processes and capabilities.

Required Qualifications:

• Eight or more years of experience in software engineering, DevSecOps, platform engineering, technical program management, developer productivity, software governance, or a related discipline, including at least three years leading enterprise process improvement or enablement initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating complex, cross-functional technical initiatives across multiple teams, business units, or organizational boundaries.
• Practical understanding of software architecture, source-code repositories, code review, build systems, CI/CD, testing, release management, and developer workflows.
• Experience defining or implementing secure software development practices, including vulnerability management, dependency governance, secrets handling, SBOMs, security scanning, and evidence retention.
• Experience translating policies, standards, and risk requirements into practical processes, controls, workflows, implementation plans, and acceptance criteria.
• Familiarity with enterprise developer tooling such as GitHub or GitLab, Jira, Jenkins or similar CI/CD platforms, artifact repositories, scanning tools, and infrastructure automation.
• Strong technical leadership, facilitation, organizational, written, verbal, and executive communication skills, with the ability to influence teams without relying solely on formal authority.
• Experience delivering software products or technical capabilities in U.S. Government contracting environments. U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a SECRET DoD clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading software development standardization, developer-experience, or engineering operating-model initiatives across multiple business units.
• Experience designing or implementing enterprise developer platforms, paved-road workflows, reusable CI/CD frameworks, or self-service engineering automation.
• Experience with generative AI governance, AI coding assistants, LLM gateways, agentic development workflows, or secure enterprise AI adoption.
• Experience with open-source licensing, third-party software governance, vendor evaluation, procurement, or technology investment planning.
• Experience managing software product lifecycles for hardware, real-time, embedded, or mission-critical systems.
• Experience with radar, SIGINT, electronic warfare, hardware-in-the-loop, software-in-the-loop, Yocto, or related defense technologies.

TSC Benefits:

TSC offers a stable work environment, a competitive salary, and a comprehensive benefit package; including ESOP participation, 401k Plan, Flexible Work Schedules, Tuition Reimbursement, Co-Sponsored Health Plan, Paid Leave and much more.

Applying to TSC:

Only those candidates invited for an interview will be contacted. Employment at TSC is contingent upon the successful completion of a comprehensive background check, security investigation, and a drug screening.

This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60–1.4(a), 60–300.5(a) and 60–741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or for inquiring about, discussing, or disclosing information about compensation. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.