Software Delivery Lead (Senior)

DecisionPoint | Cortek; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

DecisionPoint | Cortek, a US-based software leader, seeks a Senior Software Delivery Lead to guide architecture, secure engineering, technical delivery, and release readiness for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. You will drive delivery across multiple Agile teams, ensure secure, scalable solutions, and coordinate with government stakeholders from requirements through production deployment.

This remote role favors Chicago-area candidates and may require occasional travel or after-hours support for

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across multiple Agile software-development teams.
• Establish and communicate software architecture, engineering, integration, testing, deployment, and release expectations.
• Facilitate architecture reviews, system-design reviews, interface reviews, code-quality reviews, security reviews, and release-readiness assessments.
• Ensure proposed solutions are secure, scalable, extensible, supportable, testable, and aligned with current and target enterprise architectures.
• Review technical designs for consistency with validated requirements, approved baselines, Government standards, and operational priorities.
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt, integration concerns, capacity limitations, and operational dependencies.
• Develop or oversee corrective plans addressing architectural, engineering, security, quality, and delivery risks.
• Coordinate technical decisions across teams and ensure decisions, assumptions, constraints, and impacts are documented.
• Lead software-engineering activities across requirements analysis, design, development, integration, verification, validation, deployment, and sustainment.
• Ensure teams apply current software-engineering, systems-engineering, Agile, DevSecOps, and secure-development practices.
• Oversee requirements gathering, technical analysis, decomposition, estimation, prioritization, and documentation.
• Ensure requirements are complete, clear, actionable, measurable, testable, traceable, and sufficiently detailed for design and development.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of technical user stories, acceptance criteria, requirements-traceability records, interface requirements, and system-design documentation.
• Support analyses and trade studies involving commercial, Government, custom-developed, cloud, data, software, and infrastructure alternatives.
• Develop or oversee technical recommendations, concepts of operations, architecture options, implementation approaches, and rough-order-of-magnitude estimates.
• Direct the establishment and use of development, integration, test, staging, and other preproduction environments.
• Ensure development and test environments support controlled integration, verification, validation, performance testing, security testing, deployment rehearsal, and decommissioning.
• Coordinate environment availability, configuration, test data, tools, licenses, access, and technical dependencies.
• Ensure development and test environments remain appropriately separated from operational environments.
• Lead release and Sprint planning across multiple Agile teams.
• Recommend release and Sprint frequency, duration, sequencing, dependencies, and delivery milestones for Government approval.
• Coordinate team structures, development environments, delivery methods, mission interaction, and supporting technical processes.
• Facilitate or oversee Sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily coordination, Sprint reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Ensure Sprint backlogs reflect approved priorities, estimated effort, available resources, technical dependencies, and delivery risks.
• Provide or oversee weekly progress updates and software demonstrations for Government stakeholders.
• Track planned, completed, added, deferred

Job description

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Software Delivery Lead to direct software architecture, secure engineering, technical delivery, and release readiness for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This senior position provides technical and delivery leadership across multiple Agile teams responsible for designing, developing, integrating, testing, modernizing, deploying, and sustaining secure enterprise software.

The Software Delivery Lead establishes technical direction, facilitates architecture and design reviews, manages cross-team dependencies, and ensures that software increments meet approved functional, security, quality, configuration, documentation, and operational-readiness requirements. The Lead coordinates delivery from requirements development through production deployment and post-release validation.

This role works closely with Government product and mission stakeholders, software architects, developers, testers, cybersecurity personnel, configuration managers, infrastructure and cloud engineers, operations teams, trainers, and program leadership. The Lead ensures continuous feedback among development, testing, operations, security, and end users.

This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred. Occasional travel or after-hours support may be required for planning sessions, release activities, production deployments, or critical incident response.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Software Delivery Lead will:

• Lead technical delivery across multiple Agile software-development teams.
• Lead technical delivery across multiple Agile software-development teams.
• Establish and communicate software architecture, engineering, integration, testing, deployment, and release expectations.
• Facilitate architecture reviews, system-design reviews, interface reviews, code-quality reviews, security reviews, and release-readiness assessments.
• Ensure proposed solutions are secure, scalable, extensible, supportable, testable, and aligned with current and target enterprise architectures.
• Review technical designs for consistency with validated requirements, approved baselines, Government standards, and operational priorities.
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt, integration concerns, capacity limitations, and operational dependencies.
• Develop or oversee corrective plans addressing architectural, engineering, security, quality, and delivery risks.
• Manage delivery dependencies among software, data, infrastructure, cloud, network, cybersecurity, testing, training, and operations teams.
• Coordinate technical decisions across teams and ensure decisions, assumptions, constraints, and impacts are documented.
• Lead software-engineering activities across requirements analysis, design, development, integration, verification, validation, deployment, and sustainment.
• Ensure teams apply current software-engineering, systems-engineering, Agile, DevSecOps, and secure-development practices.
• Oversee requirements gathering, technical analysis, decomposition, estimation, prioritization, and documentation.
• Ensure requirements are complete, clear, actionable, measurable, testable, traceable, and sufficiently detailed for design and development.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of technical user stories, acceptance criteria, requirements-traceability records, interface requirements, and system-design documentation.
• Support analyses and trade studies involving commercial, Government, custom-developed, cloud, data, software, and infrastructure alternatives.
• Develop or oversee technical recommendations, concepts of operations, architecture options, implementation approaches, and rough-order-of-magnitude estimates.
• Direct the establishment and use of development, integration, test, staging, and other preproduction environments.
• Ensure development and test environments support controlled integration, verification, validation, performance testing, security testing, deployment rehearsal, and decommissioning.
• Coordinate environment availability, configuration, test data, tools, licenses, access, and technical dependencies.
• Ensure development and test environments remain appropriately separated from operational environments.
• Lead release and Sprint planning across multiple Agile teams.
• Recommend release and Sprint frequency, duration, sequencing, dependencies, and delivery milestones for Government approval.
• Coordinate team structures, development environments, delivery methods, mission interaction, and supporting technical processes.
• Facilitate or oversee Sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily coordination, Sprint reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Ensure Sprint backlogs reflect approved priorities, estimated effort, available resources, technical dependencies, and delivery risks.
• Provide or oversee weekly progress updates and software demonstrations for Government stakeholders.
• Track planned, completed, added, deferred