Chief Software Engineer

Here at Leidos, we care deeply about the growth and development of our people. We are seeking a Chief Software Engineer to support the team.

The GEOAxIS system provides Identity, Credential and Access Management for all web applications. GEOAxIS enables online, on-demand, access to NGA GEOINT content based on user’s authoritative attributes/roles. Our Mission is to maintain highly available ICAM services for protecting those critical mission applications across all security domains. The GxNext contract was awarded to Leidos in 2021 and runs until 2031.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical stewardship for the execution of continuous integration / continuous deployment associated with the programs’ agile development processes and the integration and delivery of architecture and software releases to all Test and Operations instances.
• Ensure the creation of maintainable, adaptable, scalable, defect-free code using Agile methodology best practices and coding standards (e.g., software reuse, refactoring, continuous integration, continuous development, test automation, secure development, test-driven development, static code analysis, peer/code review.)
• Guides the implementation of DevSecOps tools and configurations that will satisfy the needs of the program’s agile processes including multiple release trains and release on demand, maximize automated deployments, and facilitate the use of microservices and containerization.
• Verifies DevSecOps environments are maintained and available to support development, integration, and test efforts.
• Collaborates with customer and program leadership, Release Train Engineer, Development Lead, and product owners to define / refine development environment needs and with other program technical leads on the maintenance of the development backlog.
• Coordinate with external stakeholders to understand mission context of requirements, use cases, and needs and the architectures and interfaces where our systems’ services, capabilities, and features will be applied.
• Organizes and leads technical exchange sessions with consumers and external stakeholders in support of special integration, development, and coordination efforts.
• Responsible for the architecture of the development, test, and integration infrastructure, successful system integration, end-to-end performance testing, and execution of the system sprint demo.
• Identifies and implements processes, policies, and configurations to maximize the quality of the software baseline.
• Supports the investigation and resolution of security vulnerabilities and software defects.
• Assists in designing solutions to enhance the adoption of the program’s Enterprise identity, credential, and access management (ICAM) services adoption with state-of-the-art capabilities that help achieve IT efficiencies while securing the enterprise.
• Engages with the customer and other external stakeholders to brief status, design and deliver technical presentations, gather new/updated requirements, identify new development roadmap items, and contribute to enterprise working groups.
• Ensures delivery of functional code that satisfies the customer-approved success criteria using Agile design and development techniques.
• Develops innovative technical solutions and documents the solution architecture and design using standard design tools.
• Proactively and independently identifies, reports, monitors, and mitigates technical risks that may affect development or deployment.
• Create, maintain, review and provide detailed feedback on internal and external-facing technical documentation.
• Assume leadership role in responding to task orders, proposals, and requests for information tied to the program.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Candidate must have BS degree with 10 to 15 years of professional experience; 8 or more with Masters.
• 4-5 years of experience working in an Agile software development environment as a technical contributor.
• Experience serving as a technical lead with a large software development team (> 15 developers) comprised of smaller, product focused teams.
• Active TS/SCI with the ability to obtain a Polygraph.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in developing ICAM RESTful and/or SOAP services.
• Experience briefing customers and stakeholders.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills, to include presentation of technical material to non-technical audiences.
• Thorough understanding of the Agile software development process (SAFe Agile preferred) and its key processes, milestones, and roles.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Java, JavaScript, Python, or other modern programming languages.
• Experience with delivering open standards solutions such as SAML, REST, LDAP, https, JSON.
• Experience with deploying, configuring, administering, and troubleshooting software (both custom and COTS/FOSS) in a Linux environment.
• Experience working in a cloud computing environment, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure.
• Experience integrating custom code with 3rd party software products/platforms (for example, development of custom plugins for a commercial or open-source product.)
• Experience with version control systems such as git or Subversion and applying DevSecOps tools for automated deployments, automated testing, secure configurations, and software quality.
• Experience with Client-side user interface development, HCI, Ozone, Widget Framework, and Microsoft SharePoint 2016 or higher. 
• Candidate must be able to physically be in Chantilly, VA a minimum of 4 days a week to work with the team with occasional meetings in Reston and/or Springfield, VA.
• All candidates must be US CITIZENS to be considered for the position.

Preferred:

• Active Top Secret/SCI with a Polygraph.
• Familiarity with one or more common identity and access management protocols/standards, just as PKI, FIDO2, OAuth, SCIM, or OIDC.
• Prior knowledge of (or experience with) the Oracle Identity and Access Management (IdAM) suite (including OAM and OUD), API Gateways, Apache web servers and/or proxy servers, and application servers is a major plus.
• Direct experience with multiple of the following and a desire to learn the others:
  • (TLS)Transport Layer Security
  • Oracle Identity Management software plugins and extensions (Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Unified Directory)
  • PingFederate suite of products
  • Database setup and integration, both relational and NoSQL (Oracle DB, MySQL,
  • CouchDB)
  • Web and Applications Servers (Apache, WebLogic)
  • DevOps automation tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
  • Source control and Agile development tools (Git, Maven, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence)
  • Analytics and search engines (Elasticsearch, Splunk, Apache Solr)
  • eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML)
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certification (e.g. Certified SAFe Agilist,)
• One or more active cybersecurity, cloud, and/or network product certification (e.g. CISSP, AWS,)
• Mobile development experience.

Original Posting:

May 5, 2025

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $126,100.00 - $227,950.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.