Senior Software Engineer (Leadership) 2026-0138
Acclaim Technical Services2 months ago
Chantilly, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$215k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the administrative services portfolio, including control-plane services, administrative interfaces, user and role administration, authentication and authorization, lifecycle management, and peripheral or middleware management.
- Define architecture, service boundaries, ownership models, roadmaps, and delivery plans for administrative capabilities across multiple environments and deployment types.
- Lead development and sustainment of administrative user experiences for system administrators, operations personnel, support and field teams, managers, and business users.
- Own provisioning, lifecycle management, role-based access control, permissions models, delegated administration, and secure administrative workflows.
- Oversee integration and lifecycle management for peripherals, drivers, SDKs, vendor APIs, middleware services, and version compatibility.
- Lead vendor engagement and define technical evaluation, certification, compatibility testing, documentation, and supportability processes for new components.
- Ensure reliable installation, upgrades, rollbacks, and support operations across globally distributed sites.
- Partner with architecture, platform engineering, security, field engineering, operations, and QA teams, and participate in technical triage and root-cause analysis.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or 4 additional years of experience in place of the degree.
- 10+ years of software engineering, data platform engineering, search engineering, or analytics platform experience, including 4+ years leading a major technical service area or team.
- Strong experience designing and delivering administrative or control-plane services for complex distributed systems.
- Experience with user and role management, authentication and authorization, administrative UI/UX, lifecycle orchestration, or device and peripheral management platforms.
- Experience leading cross-functional delivery across software, operations, QA, and field or support teams.
- Experience integrating third-party hardware peripherals, SDKs, middleware, drivers, and versioned dependencies into production systems.
- Ability to engage vendors, define certification standards, manage compatibility, and create technical documentation and support processes.
- Desired qualifications include a master’s degree, Linux-based distributed environment experience, Java backend services, modern frontend frameworks such as Vue.js, identity federation, remote field-system management, release engineering, observability, and mission-critical platform experience.
- A TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.
- Domestic and/or international project travel may be required.
Benefits
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
- Healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.
- Career growth, learning and development opportunities, and flexible support for work-life balance.
- The position is based in Chantilly, Virginia, and domestic and/or international project travel may be required.
About Acclaim Technical Services
Acclaim Technical Services provides language, intelligence, and technology services to U.S. federal and national security agencies, spanning translation, interpretation, document exploitation, geolocation, data visualization, and systems integration. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Reston, VA, it operates as an employee‑owned ESOP and privately held government contractor. The company supports missions across 100+ languages and staffs cleared roles within the intelligence community.