Technical Team Lead 3 - (Java, Docker, Kubernetes)

Akina, Inc.; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 232,000 - 283,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO 24 days

Holidays 11

Health coverage for employee

Dependent coverage 50%

401k 10% match

Education assistance

Job summary

Akina, Inc. in Fort Meade, Maryland, TS/SCI w/ poly clearance, seeks a Technical Team Lead 3 to guide data engineering, analytics, and automation initiatives on a mission-critical BI platform.

You will mentor engineers, drive reliability and quality, and deliver metrics for enterprise decision-making while coordinating with stakeholders and documenting decisions. This role emphasizes SRE practices and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical teams.
• Effective interpersonal skills for collaborating across diverse backgrounds and skill sets.
• Familiarity with enterprise-scale software deployment architectures.
• Experience or exposure to site reliability engineering (SRE) principles.
• Willingness to contribute to internal and customer-facing documentation.

Responsibilities

• Gather stakeholder requirements, assess data, and develop solutions for delivering key metrics.
• Break down tasks into actionable steps with progress.
• Remove 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

Cross-functional collaboration

Enterprise architectures

SRE principles

Documentation

Education

YOE 12+ years / B.S. in technical discipline

Tools

Apache NiFi

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Kubernetes

Hadoop

Job description

• Fort Meade, Maryland

Technical Team Lead 3 - (Data Engineering, Analytics, Automation)

Clearance: TS/SCI w/ poly
Position ID: 20-8-004-SWE3
Location: Fort Meade, Maryland

Description:

Serve as the Technical Team Lead for the Mission Intelligence (MI) team, supporting data engineering, analytics, and automation initiatives. The MI team operates a business intelligence platform that enables enterprise-wide, data‑driven decision‑making. Your primary responsibility is to ensure the reliability, availability, and quality of this mission‑critical platform.

• 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.

Position Required Skills:

• Experience leading technical teams.
• Effective interpersonal skills for collaborating across diverse backgrounds and skill sets.
• Familiarity with enterprise‑scale software deployment architectures.
• Experience or exposure to site reliability engineering (SRE) principles.
• Willingness to contribute to internal and customer-facing documentation.

Nice to Haves

• 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 SIGINT collection and analysis systems.
• Experience with production CNO capabilities and operations.

SWE3 Qualifications:

YOE Requirement: 12 yrs., B.S. in a technical discipline or 4 additional yrs. in place of B.S.

Salary Range:

**$232k-$283k (Annually)**

**The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Akina is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team. We offer a generous compensation package that includes 24 days PTO accrued annually and 11 federal holidays. Our 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary. Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents. We offer educational assistance towards college classes and will cover costs associated with job related training and certifications.

Akina is committed to excellence and creating innovative and flexible solutions for our clients. We are a small company with an open ear to our employees' needs in order to attract and retain quality talent that enables our customer's mission.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.