Senior Technical Team Lead with Security Clearance

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

Job summary

Neural Solutions in Columbia, MD is seeking a Technical Team Lead for the Mission Intelligence (MI) Team to guide data engineering, analytics, and automation initiatives on a mission-critical platform. You will lead a skilled team of software engineers and data scientists in designing, developing, and integrating large data analyses to deliver actionable insights.

The role emphasizes leading technical teams, ensuring reliability, and collaborating with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Experience with site reliability engineering (SRE) principles.
• Experience with end-to-end signals intelligence collection and analysis systems.

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

Java development

Site reliability engineering

Docker/Kubernetes

Git

Jira/Confluence

Leadership

Customer service mindset

SRE principles

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Apache NiFi

Hadoop

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.

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.

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