Senior Technical Team Lead

Neural Solutions; Columbia (MD); On-site; USD 204,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Neural Solutions in Columbia, MD seeks a Technical Team Lead for the Mission Intelligence (MI) Team to drive data engineering, analytics, and automation initiatives on a mission-critical BI platform.

The role centers on leading technical teams, delivering analytics, ETL workflows, and platform enhancements while mentoring junior engineers and data scientists. Requires TS/SCI with Polygraph and strong collaboration across disciplines.

Qualifications

• 12 years experience with Bachelors degree in a technical field, or 16 years without
• Strong Java development skills and enterprise-scale platform experience
• Experience leading technical teams and mentoring juniors
• Familiarity with authentication/authorization platforms

Responsibilities

• Ensure the reliability, availability, and quality of the mission-critical platform.
• Develop analytics to combine, normalize, and enrich large data sets.
• Mentor junior software engineers and data scientists.
• Produce project management materials such as agendas, meeting notes, and design decision records.
• Collaborate with data engineering, analytics, and automation initiatives

Skills

Enterprise platforms

Java development

Auth platforms

Customer mindset

Leadership

Interpersonal skills

SRE concepts

Education

Bachelors degree in technical field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Jira/Confluence

Job description

Technical Team Lead for Mission Intelligence (MI) Team

Serve as the Technical Team Lead for the Mission Intelligence team, supporting data engineering, analytics, and automation initiatives at Columbia, MD. The MI team operates a business intelligence platform that enables enterprise-wide, data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the reliability, availability, and quality of the mission critical platform.
• Contribute to the MI team as a system engineer, software engineer, and analytic developer where you will design, develop, and integrate solutions involving the analysis of large data sets to establish mission cognizance and deliver mission-centric insights.

Responsibilities

• Develop analytics to combine, normalize, and enrich large data sets.
• Design and implement ETL workflows to convert and normalize data.
• Augment the platform with new tools or technologies.
• Gather stakeholder requirements, assess available data, and develop solutions for delivering key metrics.
• Break down tasks into actionable steps that demonstrate consistent progress.
• Remove technical obstacles, manage expectations, and support team execution.
• Define and communicate task scope through clear documentation and tracking systems.
• Enable the team to integrate site reliability engineering practices into the operational platform.
• Mentor and guide junior software engineers and data scientists.
• Produce project management materials such as agendas, meeting notes, and design decision records.

Required Skills

• Experience supporting enterprise-scale platforms.
• Strong Java development skills.
• Familiarity with customer authentication and authorization platforms and standards.
• Experience with service containerization and deployment with Docker/Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Git for software version control.
• Experience with Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence).
• Customer service mindset.
• Experience leading technical teams.
• Effective interpersonal skills for collaborating across diverse backgrounds and skill sets.
• Experience or exposure to site reliability engineering (SRE) principles.

Nice To Have

• Experience with Apache NiFi.
• Experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of map reduce analytic environments (e.g., Hadoop).
• Understanding of end-to-end signals intelligence collection and analysis systems.
• Python experience
• Experience with production offensive security operations capabilities and operations.

Experience Required

12 years with Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, or 16 years without degree

Location

Columbia, MD

Clearance

TS/SCI with Polygraph required

Salary Range

$204,000 - $247,000