Technical Team Lead - Data Eng, Analytics & SRE

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

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.