Lead Software Engineer
TheIncLabAbout the role
The Mission Starts Here
At TheIncLab, we engineer and deliver advanced systems that revolutionize how our customers and mission-critical teams achieve success. As a key member of our Engineering Team, you will lead a team of engineers in designing and developing applications and software solutions. These solutions will be released to UX teams, QA testers, and clients.
Join us in shaping the future of software engineering. If you are ready to make an impact and work on systems that span from tactical operations to the cloud, apply today!
Why Join TheIncLab?
You will be part of a collaborative and innovative team, and a growing company that understands the development of career pathways, and the success of each of its employees, is the essential ingredient to enable it to deliver for customers.
You will have substantial opportunities to have a meaningful impact. You will collaborate with mission stakeholders and customers, and contribute to the design of complex, resilient systems architectures that support critical defense and national security missions. You will work at the forefront of tactical systems, communication networks, cloud infrastructures, and unmanned autonomous systems for defense applications.
Your Assignment: Lead Software Engineer
As a Lead Software Engineer at TheIncLab, you will play a key role in planning, documenting technical requirements, product design, development, testing, and release of all software systems and applications developed.
What will you do?
- Implement and maintain department strategy to manage, lead, and train a team of developers and engineers.
- Promote, manage, and support an Agile organization and structure to manage and complete project milestones and deliverables.
- Serve as technical SME and work closely with architects, product managers, project management, and clients to assist in determining system architecture for projects, including the use and/or development of middleware, APIs, communication protocols, and visualization engines.
- Assist as needed with the creation of contract documents such as Statement of Work, Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM), and Production Timeline.
- Manage and oversee product and system designs and changes for the development, engineering, and technical work performed to ensure deliverables are aligned and delivered in accordance to project roadmaps.
- Participate in client meetings, presentations, and product demos to serve as technical SME to address client questions and/or issues in a competent and professional manner.
- Help identify, troubleshoot, and recommend resolutions of development issues or bugs.
- Review and enforce the use of version control and documentation to communicate code updates.
- Serve as QA tester to validate code, completion of project requirements, approve milestone completion, and coordinate the release of deliverables to clients.
- Serve as technical SME for the development team to support, lead, and ensure completion of project milestones and tasks.
- Create an inclusive environment across all aspects of the development team that supports and promotes continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and teamwork.
- Oversee Continuous Improvement initiatives related to service delivery to mitigate risks, identify improvement areas, and recommend policies, standards, and procedures.
- Understand and ensure compliance to meet regularity requirements.
- Maintain flexibility to address any client concerns, including outside of typical office hours as needed.
- Ability to travel for up to 20%.
- Other responsibilities as assigned.
Requirements
Clearance Requirements
- Applicants must be a U.S. Citizen
- Applicants must be willing and eligible to obtain a Secret Security Clearance
Required Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or Information Systems.
- 7+ years of architecting and delivering software systems or platforms.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in Software Development.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in Software Engineering.
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience in all areas of Data Engineering. (data governance, data access, data lineage, data monitoring, and security controls)
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience managing software development teams in an Agile work environment.
- 5+ years of experience in software QA testing and Network Security Engineering.
- 5+ years of experience of strategic workforce development.
- 3+ years of experience implementing software and hardware systems.
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