Lead Technical Software Engineer

Lead Technical Software Engineer

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Lead Technical Software Engineer to join the Boeing Global Service (BGS) Training Solutions organization in Seattle, WA.

This role leads to technical delivery, architecture, and operational excellence for a portfolio of cloud-native data and analytics products that support training and services. The responsible engineer will lead with a strong software and data engineering background. The candidate will prioritize and manage technical debt and long-term maintainability work alongside feature delivery to ensure platform health. Additionally, the candidate will establish incident response practices, SLAs/SLOs/SLIs, runbooks, and blameless postmortems (RCAs) to improve reliability and learning. The senior engineer will evaluate and manage third-party/vendor tools and open-source dependencies, considering cost, support, and licensing risk.

They will drive cross-functional alignment with Product, QA, UX, Security, and Support to deliver customer value effectively. Engaging with business stakeholders and senior leadership, the candidate will ensure that software architecture aligns with current and future business needs while assessing workforce skill gaps and creating targeted onboarding and upskilling plans. Furthermore, the engineer will support release management, pipeline design, artifact promotion, and rollback strategies for production platforms, promoting operational excellence through incident response, disaster recovery/backup planning, cost management, and capacity planning. Be part of a high-performing engineering organization transforming aviation training through data, cloud, and competency-based solutions.

At The Boeing Company, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company built on shared values. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, engaging, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options.

Position Responsibilities:

• Oversee the successful execution of all technical aspects of software and data platform projects across a portfolio, ensuring delivery quality, timeliness, and alignment with product goals

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for status updates and decisions; collect progress updates, track milestones and deliverables, and proactively identify and mitigate risks and issues.

• Use technical expertise and leadership to remove roadblocks, enable teams, mentor engineers, and ensure timely, high‑quality software delivery

• Make well‑informed technical choices across the software lifecycle, evaluating and selecting technologies, frameworks, and methodologies that balance scalability, performance, cost, and supportability

• Collaborate with Product Owners and Product Managers to assess feasibility and trade‑offs for functional and non‑functional requirements

• Own the technical roadmap for the portfolio and ensure alignment with product roadmaps; partner with Software and Solution Architects to develop and maintain product‑level architecture and roadmaps

• Define, publish, and communicate product architecture best practices and standards to maintain consistency and quality across teams

• Foster collaboration and alignment with Solution Architects to meet enterprise requirements, governance, and security standards.

• Champion technical innovation by leading proofs of concept, evaluating new approaches, and articulating a long‑term architectural vision

• Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes: development standards, code quality, test coverage, security practices, documentation, and DevOps maturity

• Define and track engineering and product KPIs (e.g., cycle time, MTTR, test coverage) and report progress to stakeholders regularly

Basic Qualifications (Required Skill/Experience):

• 9+ years of experience with Data Engineering and/or Software Development

• 9+ years of experience automating and troubleshooting application deployments using CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps Tool Suites along with Azure Pipelines and Portal)

• 9+ years of experience with the following tools and technologies: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Nifi, Relational SQL or NoSQL databases

• 5+ years of Technical leadership exper