Job#: 3058982 Job Description:Research and Development Lead
Location: Fairfax, VA
(Must be able to work onsite 2 days per week.)Length: 6+ month Temp-to-Perm
Pay Range: $80 - $85/hour W2
Role Overview
This organization is seeking a Research and Development Lead to drive innovation for a critical national cyber program. The successful candidate will lead a team of one to five engineers in performing rapid prototyping of solutions and evaluating multiple technical options to determine the optimal path. This role demands a versatile and curious mindset to design highly scalable, practical solutions and evangelize technical visions for adoption. The position operates within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), requiring an aptitude for continuous learning in a fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the research and development team as a hands-on technical lead driving the development of innovative solutions.
- Define and execute a repeatable analysis program where customer needs drive innovative solutions and traceable outcomes.
- Perform rapid prototyping of solutions to validate technical feasibility and identify potential risks.
- Analyze multiple solution options and document results to inform technical selections.
- Conduct trade studies to compare the pros and cons of different solutions and recommend the most suitable approach.
- Collaborate with the Core Architecture team to prove the feasibility of solutions and select the best technologies and implementation approaches.
- Work closely with the Development and Infrastructure Leads to define requirements and maintain a development lab.
- Ensure developed solutions meet non-functional requirements such as scalability, maintainability, reliability, and security.
- Communicate the technical vision and implementation plans to diverse stakeholder groups and senior leadership.
- Collaborate with the development team to design major system components and ensure extensible system design.
Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Experience: At least five years of experience developing enterprise production solutions, with a minimum of three years of solutions architecture experience performing rapid prototyping and analysis.
Technical Skills: Strong understanding of cybersecurity concepts including threat modeling, vulnerability management, and incident response. Familiarity with cloud computing and scalable cloud architectures. Experience with code repositories, ALM tools, and big data platforms. Strong communication and presentation skills sufficient to develop robust analysis documentation.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience coordinating work in an Agile Environment, specifically using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum, or Kanban.
- Experience as a Technical Lead for enterprise-wide software development or commercial off-the-shelf integration programs.
- Familiarity with cloud workloads, particularly Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Experience conducting trade studies and selecting technical solutions based on rigorous analysis.
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