Senior Tech Lead for AOC Falconer Modernization

KBR Careers; Bedford (MA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K plan with company match

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible work schedule

Job summary

KBR is seeking a senior Technical Lead to guide solution development for a large Air Operations Center modernization and sustainment effort. This role requires building trusted relationships with government stakeholders, operators, engineers, and teammates while delivering complex defense technology in classified environments.

You will shape technical vision, manage RMF cybersecurity alignment, DevSecOps practices, and hybrid cloud/in‑prem architectures, ensuring a credible, executable approach

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 12+ years of relevant experience delivering complex DoD/Air Force or mission-critical technology programs.
• Experience as a technical lead, chief engineer, solution architect, systems integration lead, or similar role.
• Deep familiarity with system-of-systems integration, hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure, software modernization, DevSecOps, cybersecurity/RMF, configuration management, and mission-critical sustainment.
• Experience developing technical solution content for white papers, proposals, oral presentations, solution reviews, or customer demonstrations.
• Active Top Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Technical Solution Architecture: lead architecture for Falconer/AOC solution development and proposal readiness.
• Develop an integrated technical approach across sustainment, modernization, cloud, on-prem, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, configuration management, fielding, and mission assurance.
• Identify technical gaps, dependencies, risks, data needs, and SME inputs before proposal submission.
• Guide technical strategy for a heterogeneous system-of-systems with legacy apps, third-party components, and evolving Government architectures.
• Shape approaches for hybrid cloud/on-prem operations, data synchronization, API governance, and open architecture integration.
• Lead technical content for capture, proposals, and oral presentations; coordinate with PM for cost/schedule/operational readiness.

Skills

Technical leadership

Solution architecture

DevSecOps

Cloud modernization

RMF cybersecurity

Systems integration

DoD proposals

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

RMF

CI/CD pipelines

Hybrid cloud

Job description

KBR is seeking a senior Technical Lead to guide solution development for a large Air Operations Center modernization and sustainment effort. This role requires building trusted relationships with government stakeholders, operators, engineers, and teammates while delivering complex defense technology in classified environments.

You will shape technical vision, manage RMF cybersecurity alignment, DevSecOps practices, and hybrid cloud/in‑prem architectures, ensuring a credible, executable approach