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

Akina Inc; Fort Meade, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 232,000 - 283,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

24 days PTO accrued annually

11 federal holidays

401k fully vested at start

Healthcare coverage for employees

Educational assistance for job-related

Job summary

Akina Inc. seeks a Technical Team Lead 3 for the Mission Intelligence team, focusing on data engineering, analytics, and automation. You will ensure reliability, availability, and quality of a mission-critical BI platform while guiding engineers and data scientists.

You will gather requirements, design solutions, mentor staff, and drive documentation and governance across the team. Applicants should have a strong track record in leading technical teams and an understanding of enterprise

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical teams and coordinating across diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to design and implement enterprise-scale deployment architectures.
• Familiarity with SRE principles and operational support.
• Willingness to contribute to internal and customer-facing documentation.

Responsibilities

• Gather stakeholder requirements, assess data, and develop metrics-driven solutions.
• Break down tasks into actionable steps to show consistent progress.
• Remove obstacles, manage expectations, and support team execution.
• Define and communicate task scope with clear documentation and tracking.
• Enable site reliability engineering practices in the operational platform.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers and data scientists.
• Produce project management materials (agendas, notes, design decisions).

Skills

Experience leading technical teams

Interpersonal collaboration

Enterprise-scale deployment

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Documentation contribution

Education

BS in technical discipline

4 additional yrs experience in lieu of BS

Tools

Apache NiFi

Elasticsearch

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.