4 months ago
Colorado Springs, CO, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$143k - $214k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical leader for software development supporting high-velocity data stream processing systems.
- Define software architecture, technical strategy, and long-term roadmaps for mission-critical applications.
- Translate customer requirements and mission objectives into scalable system and software solutions.
- Lead architecture reviews, design reviews, technology evaluations, integration, testing, and deployment activities.
- Drive development of highly available, resilient, and high-performance software systems.
- Establish software engineering standards, best practices, and technical governance across teams.
- Evaluate vendor technologies, open-source solutions, and emerging technologies for program adoption.
- Lead technical investigations, trade studies, and root-cause analyses for mission-critical issues.
- Mentor engineers across all levels and provide technical leadership for multiple teams.
- Coordinate planning, staffing, scheduling, and execution of software engineering activities.
- Advise program leadership, customers, and mission partners on technical matters.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
- Active U.S. Government Top Secret/SCI security clearance and U.S. citizenship.
- Extensive experience designing and developing distributed, highly available, mission-critical software systems.
- Advanced expertise with Java, Python, or other object-oriented programming languages.
- Experience leading software architecture and technical strategy efforts.
- Experience guiding engineering teams through the full software development lifecycle.
- Experience developing complex data processing, integration, or real-time streaming systems.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional engineering teams and large technical initiatives.
- Strong communication skills for engaging engineers, leadership, and customers.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree, knowledge of MIL-STD-6016 and MIL-STD-3011, experience as a software architect, chief engineer, or technical lead, legacy-system modernization experience, and expertise with TDD, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and Agile methodologies.
- Security+ or higher DoD 8570/8140 certification is preferred.
- Ability to influence organizational technical direction and mentor engineering talent across multiple teams is preferred.
Benefits
- 100% onsite work in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with minimal travel and standard working hours.
- Potential additional compensation may include bonuses, commissions, sign-on bonuses, relocation benefits, short-term incentives, long-term incentives, or discretionary performance payments.
- Equal opportunity employment and a People First workplace centered on belonging, connection, growth, and Zero Harm.
About KBR, Inc.
KBR, Inc. delivers engineering, technology, and professional services to government and industrial customers, spanning defense, space, sustainability, and energy. Its businesses include long-term government mission support and program management, and Sustainable Technology Solutions that license process technologies and provide consulting and operations support across asset lifecycles. Headquartered in Houston and listed on the NYSE, KBR became an independent public company in 2006 after its separation from Halliburton.