Systems Technical Director

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The Team

Youll serve as the senior engineering leader for a cross-functional program that includes engineering team leads software engineers solution and cloud architects database administrators DevSecOps engineers quality assurance specialists user experience professionals business analysts product managers data analysts accessibility and security specialists and behavioral health subject matter experts. We partner with federal stakeholders to operate and modernize a mission-critical data collection and performance reporting platform used by grantees and program staff.

The Work

In this program-level role you will serve as the overall technical authority for platform operations and maintenance and for development modernization and enhancement. You will connect architecture delivery operations and modernization into a coherent plan; guide multiple engineering workstreams and team leads; make and document consequential technical decisions; establish shared standards; and ensure releases are secure testable supportable and aligned with program priorities.

You will remain close enough to the technology to evaluate designs challenge assumptions troubleshoot difficult issues and advise the client on options and tradeoffs. A key part of the work is balancing reliable operation of the platform with incremental modernization improved cloud and deployment practices stronger data quality better observability and a sustainable path for reducing technical debt.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain the program engineering strategy technical roadmap architecture guardrails and incremental modernization approach.
• Lead engineering team leads and multiple development workstreams by aligning priorities capacity dependencies standards and delivery expectations.
• Provide technical direction applications APIs domain and data models SQL Server solutions system integrations and cloud-hosted services.
• Establish program-wide practices for secure development automated testing code review CI/CD release readiness documentation and production support.
• Evaluate technical options and communicate recommendations costs risks dependencies and tradeoffs to program leadership and federal stakeholders.
• Partner with product and delivery leaders to shape release plans estimates staffing needs and acceptance criteria that are technically achievable.
• Coordinate architecture and delivery across cloud DevSecOps database security quality assurance accessibility data user experience and operations teams.
• Identify and manage technical debt performance constraints reliability risks integration dependencies and modernization sequencing.
• Oversee response to complex production issues root-cause analysis corrective actions and improvements to monitoring and operational readiness.
• Mentor engineering leads and senior engineers strengthen technical decision-making and build consistent engineering practices across the program.
• Maintain technical roadmaps decision records interface documentation standards and executive-ready status reporting.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in computer science software engineering information systems or a related field or equivalent professional experience.
• 7 years delivering and supporting resilient well-tested production web applications including 3 years working with C# .NET Core MVC or Web API and SQL Server.
• 5 years designing and delivering APIs or distributed application services or another modern language and framework.
• 3 years leading engineering teams technical leads or multiple engineering workstreams including Agile delivery estimation dependency management and technical risk management.
• 3 years making and documenting architecture decisions across applications data integrations cloud infrastructure security and operations and communicating tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• 3 years establishing or improving engineering practices for automated testing code quality source control CI/CD release management and production support.
• 3 years guiding the design or implementation of authentication authorization role-based access privacy protections and secure handling of sensitive data.
• Authorization to work in the United States ability to perform all work within the United States and ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust determination and complete required background screening.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading incremental modernization of a large platform including sequencing technical debt reduction while maintaining reliable production service.
• Experience guiding AWS or AWS GovCloud architecture and operations including cost optimization capacity planning observability and service reliability.
• Experience establishing deployment and security automation using CI/CD platforms containers infrastructure as code and repeatable environment configuration.
• Experience supporting federal authorization efforts including NIST Moderate controls FedRAMP ATO processes and preparation of technical evidence.
• Experience overseeing architecture for high-volume data collection batch ingestion ETL data quality reporting or business intelligence integrations.
• Experience guiding federated identity architecture including single sign-on multifactor authentication and fine-grained access controls.
• Experience leading complex production incident response root-cause analysis and improvements that prevent recurring issues.
• Experience providing technical leadership for federal government public health grants management behavioral health or performance measurement programs.

***Please note this role is contingent.

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