Senior Technical Team Lead

Neuralsolutions; Columbia, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 204,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

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

The role combines system engineering, software development, and analytics to deliver enterprise-wide insights, mentor junior engineers, and ensure reliability and performance in a complex data environment.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting enterprise-scale platforms.
• 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).
• Experience leading technical teams.
• Effective interpersonal skills for collaborating across diverse backgrounds and skill sets.
• Experience or exposure to site reliability engineering (SRE) principles.

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.
• 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.

Skills

Team leadership

Docker/Kubernetes

Git

Jira/Confluence

SRE principles

Stakeholder collaboration

Communication

Production security ops

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Jira

Confluence

Apache NiFi

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Hadoop

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.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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