Technical Development Lead – Real-Time Visibility
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Technical Development Lead shaping real-time network visibility for Leidos, a government and commercial technology innovator. Leading dashboards, data products, architecture, and Agile delivery across secure defense environments.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain, and lead execution of the Real-Time Visibility data visualization strategy and roadmap
- Define visualization architecture, information architecture, UX/UI patterns, dashboard standards, navigation models, design systems, accessibility expectations, and reusable components
- Lead design, development, documentation, testing, deployment, and sustainment of Kibana dashboards, visualizations, reports, alerts, self-service analytics, and operational data products
- Evaluate tools, custom development approaches, integration patterns, and modernization opportunities
- Partner with data engineers and platform teams on visualization-ready data, normalization, correlation, enrichment, schemas, metadata, data contracts, lineage, quality, retention, and indexing
- Collaborate with users, mission stakeholders, product owners, and subject matter experts to define outcomes, requirements, user journeys, personas, wireframes, prototypes, demos, and iterative feedback
- Translate stakeholder needs into epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, design artifacts, implementation plans, test plans, user acceptance strategies, and transition plans
- Lead cross-functional Agile execution, backlog refinement, prioritization, design reviews, code reviews, testing, release readiness, risk management, and continuous improvement
- Establish and enforce dashboard and visual analytics governance, lifecycle management, access controls, documentation, and performance monitoring
- Design visual analytics supporting network operations, cyber operations, customer impact, root cause analysis, service health, incident management, predictive insights, auto-ticketing, troubleshooting, and self-healing capabilities
- Integrate visualizations and decision products into operational workflows to improve detection, troubleshooting, resolution, reporting, and automated remediation
- Develop technical artifacts including architecture decision records, architectures, data flow diagrams, system and interface documents, wireframes, dashboard catalogs, test strategies, and runbooks
- Ensure compliance with DoD cybersecurity, data governance, RBAC, encryption, auditability, privileged access, RMF, DISA STIG, and classified/unclassified environment requirements
- Troubleshoot and optimize dashboard queries, data quality, indexing, visualization load times, user experience, pipeline dependencies, and platform performance
- Brief program leadership, customers, and Government stakeholders on strategy, status, risks, tradeoffs, decisions, demonstrations, roadmaps, and recommendations
- Support Engineering Review Boards, technology trade studies, analyses of alternatives, ROM and proposal inputs, roadmap planning, and modernization recommendations
- Track emerging visualization, observability, UX/UI, AI/ML, AIOps, LLM, automation, and network operations technologies and recommend adoption paths
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Systems, or related technical discipline with 8+ years of relevant experience; Master’s degree with 6+ years; or equivalent additional experience in lieu of degree
- Experience leading strategy, architecture, design, development, and delivery of data visualization, observability, analytics, or data-driven operations capabilities
- Hands-on experience designing, building, deploying, and sustaining dashboards, reports, visualizations, and data products using Elastic/Kibana or comparable platforms
- Experience with Elastic Stack, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, indexing, dashboarding, alerting, RBAC, retention, observability, and performance tuning
- Experience with real-time or near-real-time operational data
- Experience translating mission, business, and user needs into requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, architecture artifacts, development tasks, and implementation plans
- Experience with user-centered design, stakeholder interviews, workflow analysis, personas, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, usability reviews, accessibility, and iterative feedback
- Experience leading technical teams or cross-functional delivery, mentoring engineers, resolving technical issues, managing delivery risk, and aligning execution to outcomes
- Experience with data integration and pipeline concepts, Kafka or comparable messaging, ETL/ELT, APIs, data modeling, schemas, metadata, data quality, lineage, and secure access
- Software development or scripting with JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, JSON/REST APIs, Python, Java, SQL, or comparable languages
- Experience with DevSecOps and Agile practices, Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins/CloudBees or equivalent CI/CD, Artifactory, Ansible, automated testing, controlled releases, and infrastructure/configuration as code
- Experience with AWS, AWS GovCloud, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, or comparable cloud/container technologies
- Working knowledge of cybersecurity and compliance, including access controls, encryption, least privilege, auditability, RMF, DISA STIGs, and DoD IA policies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for briefing technical solutions, risks, status, and recommendations
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance; active Secret preferred for start
- Ability to obtain Security+ or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT II certification within the required timeframe after start
- Preferred: experience supporting DISA, DISN, DODIN, GSM-O, GMS, DoD network operations, cyber operations, or mission command-and-control
- Preferred: Elastic/Kibana, Kafka, Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, NiFi, Flink, AI/ML, NLP, LLM, network operations, cloud/data platform optimization, IL5/IL6, cross-domain transfer, architecture governance, and relevant technical certifications
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation
- Health and Wellness programs
- Income Protection
- Paid Leave
- Retirement
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