Engineering Tech Lead

Leidos is seeking an Engineering Tech Lead for a 200+ FTE technical development program supporting the Sponsor’s IdAM /ICAM program to include Authentication, Authorization, Attributes, Entitlement Management and Digital Policy Management.  This Engineering Tech Lead will be supporting the evolution of ICAM for the unclassified space to include building new services, web applications, and integrating new Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. In the role, you will be the lead engineer of a team taking requirements through design and technical implementation to delivery, participate in deployment/administration of tools and integration testing, and lead an agile team of developers, system administrators, and testers through delivery.

While not required, it is highly desirable for the Candidate to have knowledge of key ICAM concepts such as Identity Providers, Secure Token Services, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), LDAP, and more. An innovative thinker with a desire to learn and take lead of hard problems is highly desired to fill this role.

*** Applicants for this position are expected to have significant, hands-on systems architecture / engineering experience. ***

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to the team’s System Engineers and Developers
• Works closely with the teams PM to ensure the technical baseline meets delivery requirements, schedule, and milestones
• Works closely with Portfolio Solution Architect to build future vision and drive vision into the unclassified solution
• Provide status updates to contract PMO and government staff lead
• Assist in completing monthly Technical Program Management Review (PMR) charts and supports internal RRB process
• Represent the team at staff meetings, requirements meetings, tech lead meetings, and TEMs
• Support defining requirements and the breakdown of work efforts into actionable tasks for the development team to execute
• Provide technical diagrams, charts, and documentation for systems
• Ensure designs are compatible with the architecture and security requirements
• Work with the team’s security engineer to address/mitigate security findings stemming from system security scans
• Deeply understand the engineering and design of the system and be able to speak to it with internal and external audiences
• Work with the government staff lead and project team lead to prioritize work
• Research new technologies / products that will help modernize the Sponsor’s ICAM footprint
• Guide and advise technical staff in the implementation of the services and tools
• Works with PM to align the team, share technical direction, evaluate technology assumptions and alternatives

Required Quals

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of experience. Additional experience in lieu of degree.
• Must have experience with IdAM / ICAM services and customers security accreditation (A&A)  process for system approval
• Must have experience with the Cloud / Amazon Web Services
• Must have experience in Systems Engineering to include providing requirements and system interface analysis for enterprise scale development project
• Experience developing and maintaining interface control documents between components in an enterprise operational system
• Strong communication between development team and stakeholders on intent of the requirements and user stories
• Translating user requirements into agile sprint stories and acceptance criteria that is achievable within each sprint
• Experience with agile project management methodologies, including managing product backlogs

Desired Quals

• Experience with requirements management on a program interacting with and supporting multiple customers
• Experience with SaaS ICAM vendors (Ping, Okta, SavyInt, etc.)
• Experience as a Scrum Master
• Experience working with CloudFormation / Puppet / Groovy, or other configuration and automation tools
• Experience with containers
• Network engineering troubleshooting between Cloud environments and non-Cloud environments
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Ansible / Terraform, or other configuration and automation tools
• Solid understanding of Web Application Firewall (WAF) configuration and management
• Experience with networking (e.g., ports, routing tables, subnets, VPNs, firewalls, routers, etc.) to include design, integration and troubleshooting issues
• Experience working in a cloud-based environment (AWS)

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Original Posting:

November 13, 2026

Pay Range:

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

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.