Senior Space Systems Software Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Financial benefits

Retirement savings

Paid leave

Tuition assistance

Professional development

Work-life programs

Dependent care

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a seasoned lead full stack developer to guide software and system development from vision to production. You will lead a team, adopt new tools, and drive improvements across architecture, security, and deployment in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities include enabling software-enabled products, mentoring staff, and collaborating across disciplines to meet program goals. A Secret clearance and BS are required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience leading space system or missile defense software teams.
• Experience with weapon system requirements, design, and performance analysis.
• Experience with DevOps principles, including automated CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, infra automation, and cloud monitoring.
• Experience with systems architecture, requirements management, and baseline management.
• Experience providing technical leadership for a software team and mentoring employees.
• Experience with reviews of complex systems per SETR process.
• Knowledge of SysML, DoDAF, and UAF.
• Ability to communicate effectively and work on cross-functional teams in fast-paced environments.
• Secret clearance required.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to develop software-enabled products from vision to production.
• Identify system improvements and learn new tools and techniques.
• Ensure solutions align with current architecture and future enhancements.
• Mentor and supervise team members to grow capabilities.

Skills

Space systems leadership

Weapon systems analysis

DevOps / CI-CD

Systems architecture

Technical leadership

SETR reviews

SysML / DoDAF / UAF

Cross-functional collaboration

Security clearance

Bachelor’s degree

Rust

C

C++

Python

Java

JavaScript

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a seasoned lead full stack developer to guide software and system development from vision to production. You will lead a team, adopt new tools, and drive improvements across architecture, security, and deployment in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities include enabling software-enabled products, mentoring staff, and collaborating across disciplines to meet program goals. A Secret clearance and BS are required.