Engineering Manager, Lead
Booz Allen Hamilton
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Job summary
Booz Allen Hamilton in Cary, NC is seeking a Squad Lead and Engineering Manager to lead one or more engineering squads, focusing on people leadership, predictable delivery, and transparent communication.
You will maintain engineering artifacts, dashboards, and delivery practices, partnering with product management and go-to-market to build a high-performing team while balancing architecture decisions with delivery needs.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- 2+ years in an engineering leadership role such as engineering manager, squad lead, or team lead
- Experience leading an engineering team through planning, execution, delivery, and operational support
- Experience with Agile delivery practices, including Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe
- Experience creating and maintaining delivery visibility through status reporting, planning artifacts, dashboards, metrics, and regular execution cadences
- Ability to identify and communicate delivery risks, dependencies, and trade-offs clearly to product, engineering, and leadership audiences
- Bachelor's degree in CS or Engineering
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, mentor, and grow engineers while building a high-performing, collaborative squad
- Own squad-level execution, ensuring work is clearly defined, prioritized, tracked, and communicated in each sprint
- Establish and maintain engineering artifacts including sprint plans, delivery plans, key decisions, risks, dependencies, and milestones
- Provide timely, accurate, and transparent status reporting including burndown, milestone progress, and delivery forecasts
- Facilitate sprint reviews, feature reviews, and milestone readiness discussions to drive launch readiness
- Identify risks and work with product and tech leadership to resolve trade-offs
- Maintain evidence of feature and go-live readiness and communicate delivery confidence changes
- Monitor squad health including availability, uptime, incidents, code quality, test coverage, scalability, security, and cost
- Ensure safe deployment practices, on-call rotations, incident response, and operational processes
- Support secure-by-design practices, compliance, threat modeling, and coordination before production changes
- Partner with product management on roadmap feasibility, prioritization, sequencing, experimentation, and delivery trade-offs
- Work with tech leads and system architects to identify risks, dependencies, and architecture considerations
- Escalate significant delivery, staffing, technical, or operational risks with context and actions
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering processes and operating rhythms
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As a Squad Lead and Engineering Manager, you will lead one or more engineering squa ds with a primary focus on people leadership, predictable delivery, operational execution, and transparent communication.
You will be accountable for helping your squad plan and execute effectively while maintaining engineering artifacts, status reporting, dashboards, and operational practices defined by the engineering organization. You will build a high-performing, accountable team culture while maintaining clear separation between engineering management responsibilities and deep technical architecture and implementation decisions, which sit with system architects, technology leads, and individual engineering teams.
You will operate within a lean product organization, partnering closely with product management, engineering, and go-to-market to create t rus t through transparency, clear trade-offs, and predictable delivery.
- Lead, coach, mentor, and grow engineers while building a high-performing, collaborative, and accountable squad .
- Own squad -level execution, ensuring planned work is clearly defined, prioritized, tracked, and communicated throughout each sprint and iteration.
- Establish and maintain required engineering artifacts, including sprint plans, delivery plans, key decisions, risks, dependencies, and milestone tracking.
- Provide timely, accurate, and transparent status reporting, including burndown, milestone progress, percentage completeness, critical path risks, and delivery forecasts.
- Facilitate sprint reviews, feature reviews, and milestone readiness discussions to demonstrate progress and identify gaps to launch readiness.
- Proactively identify schedule, scope, quality, resource, and dependency risks, and work with product management and technical leadership to resolve trade-offs.
- Maintain clear evidence of feature and "go-live" readiness, and communicate changes in delivery confidence as work progresses.
- Monitor and communicate squad -level operational health, including availability, uptime, incident trends, code quality, test coverage, scalability, security, and cost.
- Ensure consistent execution of deployment safety practices, on-call rotations, incident response, and other operational processes.
- Support secure-by-design practices, compliance requirements, threat modeling, and appropriate coordination before production changes.
- Partner closely with product management on roadmap feasibility, prioritization, sequencing, experimentation, and delivery trade-offs.
- Work closely with technology leads and system architects to identify technical risks, dependencies, and architectural considerations that could affect delivery.
- Escalate significant delivery, staffing, technical, or operational risks to engineering leadership with clear context and recommended actions.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering processes, delivery practices, and management operating rhythms across the organization.
Join us. The world can’t wait.
- 5+ years of experience in sof tware engineering
- 2+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role such as engineering manager, squad lead, or team lead
- Experience leading an engineering team through planning, execution, delivery, and operational support
- Experience with Agile delivery practices, including Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe
- Experience creating and maintaining delivery visibility through status reporting, planning artifacts, dashboards, met rics, and regular execution cadences
- Ability to identify and communicate delivery risks, dependencies, and trade-offs clearly to product, engineering, and leadership audiences
- Bachelor's degree in CS or Engineering
- Experience working within a scaled engineering organization or SAFe environment
- Experience as a Release Train Engineer ( RTE ) , technology lead, engineering manager, or squad lead
- Experience with modern engineering practices such as CI / CD, DevOps, observability, and automated testing
- Experience working in security-conscious, regulated, or compliance-driven environments
- Experience helping scale an engineering team or establishing effective engineering management practices
- Experience partnering with product management on roadmap planning, prioritization, and delivery trade-offs
- Experience managing production services, on-call rotations, incident response, or operational readiness
- Possession of strong people leadership, coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Master's degree in CS, Engineering, or a related technical field
At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.
Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.
Engineering Manager, Lead
As a Squad Lead and Engineering Manager, you will lead one or more engineering squa ds with a primary focus on people leadership, predictable delivery, operational execution, and transparent communication.
You will be accountable for helping your squad plan and execute effectively while maintaining engineering artifacts, status reporting, dashboards, and operational practices defined by the engineering organization. You will build a high-performing, accountable team culture while maintaining clear separation between engineering management responsibilities and deep technical architecture and implementation decisions, which sit with system architects, technology leads, and individual engineering teams.
You will operate within a lean product organization, partnering closely with product management, engineering, and go-to-market to create t rus t through transparency, clear trade-offs, and predictable delivery.
- Lead, coach, mentor, and grow engineers while building a high-performing, collaborative, and accountable squad .
- Own squad -level execution, ensuring planned work is clearly defined, prioritized, tracked, and communicated throughout each sprint and iteration.
- Establish and maintain required engineering artifacts, including sprint plans, delivery plans, key decisions, risks, dependencies, and milestone tracking.
- Provide timely, accurate, and transparent status reporting, including burndown, milestone progress, percentage completeness, critical path risks, and delivery forecasts.
- Facilitate sprint reviews, feature reviews, and milestone readiness discussions to demonstrate progress and identify gaps to launch readiness.
- Proactively identify schedule, scope, quality, resource, and dependency risks, and work with product management and technical leadership to resolve trade-offs.
- Maintain clear evidence of feature and "go-live" readiness, and communicate changes in delivery confidence as work progresses.
- Monitor and communicate squad -level operational health, including availability, uptime, incident trends, code quality, test coverage, scalability, security, and cost.
- Ensure consistent execution of deployment safety practices, on-call rotations, incident response, and other operational processes.
- Support secure-by-design practices, compliance requirements, threat modeling, and appropriate coordination before production changes.
- Partner closely with product management on roadmap feasibility, prioritization, sequencing, experimentation, and delivery trade-offs.
- Work closely with technology leads and system architects to identify technical risks, dependencies, and architectural considerations that could affect delivery.
- Escalate significant delivery, staffing, technical, or operational risks to engineering leadership with clear context and recommended actions.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering processes, delivery practices, and management operating rhythms across the organization.
Join us. The world can’t wait.
- 5+ years of experience in sof tware engineering
- 2+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role such as engineering manager, squad lead, or team lead
- Experience leading an engineering team through planning, execution, delivery, and operational support
- Experience with Agile delivery practices, including Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe
- Experience creating and maintaining delivery visibility through status reporting, planning artifacts, dashboards, met rics, and regular execution cadences
- Ability to identify and communicate delivery risks, dependencies, and trade-offs clearly to product, engineering, and leadership audiences
- Bachelor's degree in CS or Engineering
- Experience working within a scaled engineering organization or SAFe environment
- Experience as a Release Train Engineer ( RTE ) , technology lead, engineering manager, or squad lead
- Experience with modern engineering practices such as CI / CD, DevOps, observability, and automated testing
- Experience working in security‑conscious, regulated, or compliance‑driven environments
- Experience helping scale an engineering team or establishing effective engineering management practices
- Experience partnering with product management on roadmap planning, prioritization, and delivery trade-offs
- Experience managing production services, on‑call rotations, incident response, or operational readiness
- Possession of strong people leadership, coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Master's degree in CS, Engineering, or a related technical field
At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work‑life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full‑time and part
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