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Position Responsibilities: People & Strategy Talent Management: Hire, coach, and retain a high-performing team of 25-40 full-stack software developers and managers across India and Poland. Foster a culture of psychological safety, inclusivity, and mission focus. Resource Allocation: Strategically manage resource allocation to support existing and emergent products while nurturing the career aspirations of talented software development teams. Strategic Partnerships: Partner with Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, and AI leaders to translate capability gaps into clear product backlogs and measurable Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Agile & Lean Adoption: Drive the adoption of modern agile frameworks (Scrum/SAFe) and Lean software metrics (cycle time, Mean Time To Recovery - MTTR, DORA metrics). Technical Leadership: Lead quarterly architecture reviews and technology-radar sessions. Invest in upskilling developers on server-side rendering, micro-frontends, AWS artifacts and services, and generative-AI patterns. Support Model Definition: Define a robust and comprehensive software support model for products in production, ensuring business continuity, cost-effective support, and high reliability of our products. Execution Excellence Full Software Development Lifecycle Ownership: Own the entire software development ecosystem for multiple products, from roadmap definition to production support. Enforce engineering best practices, including code review, test automation, and trunk-based development. DevSecOps Pipeline Ownership: Define and operate global DevSecOps pipelines, encompassing Git-based workflows, Jenkins/GitHub Actions/Argo CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, Static/Dynamic Application Security Testing (SCA/SAST/DAST) scanning, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation, and automated container promotion across IL2-IL5 environments. Observability Champion: Champion observability initiatives, including centralized logging, distributed tracing, custom metrics, and synthetic tests, using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry. Compliance Enforcement: Ensure every service adheres to data-classification rules such as ITAR, EAR, and CUI. What You'll Own in Your First 12 Months: CI/CD Modernization: Modernize the existing global CI/CD pipeline to achieve less than a 2-hour secure path-to-production for priority applications. New Product Delivery: Ship two new AI-enabled applications with microservices to production with 99.9% availability. Observability Stack: Stand up an enterprise observability stack that drives MTTR to less than 30 minutes for critical workflows. Team Expansion: Recruit and onboard 10 full-stack software developers, DevOps engineers, and data engineers. Technology Roadmap: Publish a technology roadmap aligning React 18, Spring Boot 3, Java 21 LTS, and Generative AI capabilities with product OKRs. Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience): Experience: 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 5+ years leading multi-disciplinary teams and managers that ship production software. Full-Stack Expertise: Proven track record delivering large-scale full-stack solutions with React/TypeScript, Java 11+/Spring Boot, and Node.js/Express in production. DevSecOps Mastery: Demonstrated mastery of CI/CD and DevSecOps in regulated environments, including pipelines that embed security gates, artifact signing, and infrastructure-as-code for AWS (CloudFormation or Terraform). AWS GovCloud Knowledge: Deep knowledge of AWS GovCloud services, including VPC, EKS, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, and KMS. Observability Stacks: Hands-on experience running distributed monitoring/observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, OpenTelemetry). Compliance Frameworks: Familiarity with data-classification & export-control frameworks (ITAR, EAR, CMMC) and ability to build compliant technical workflows. AI/ML Patterns: Strong understanding of contemporary AI/ML patterns (LLM orchestration, MLOps, vector search, edge inference) and how to integrate them into transactional systems. Travel: Ability to travel between India and Poland on a regular frequency. Education: Related work experience, relevant military experience, or advanced degree preferred but not required. Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience): Advanced Degree: A Master's or PhD in Computer Science or related fields from a top-rated institution. Industry Experience: Prior leadership in an aerospace, defense, or highly regulated industry; exposure to design-to-manufacture value streams. Architectural Patterns: Experience with domain-driven design, microservice & event-driven architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS), and micro-frontend patterns (Module Federation). Global Team Orchestration: Background in global team orchestration (follow-the-sun release management, 24/7 support). Secure Coding: Demonstrated working knowledge of secure coding guidelines (NIST 800-53, OWASP ASVS, STIG hardening). Leadership Competencies: Customer-Focused: Frames technical decisions around user value and mission impact. Bar-Raiser: Sets a high technical bar, models quality code, and fosters a feedback-rich environment. Data-Driven: Uses leading & lagging metrics to improve predictability and reliability. Innovation: Continuously challenges the status quo with automation, self-service, and reusable platform components. Earns Trust: Earns trust with cross-functional stakeholders by communicating effectively, managing risks transparently, and delivering on commitments. Best in Class: Promotes best practices that enable agile and rapid application development. People Focus: Coaches, mentors, and develops talented individuals ranging from junior to very senior levels of experience. Team Building: Builds a cohesive teaming environment across Poland, India, and US development teams. Typical Education & Experience: Typically 21 or more years related work experience or relevant military experience; an advanced degree (e.g., Bachelor's or Master's) preferred but not required. Relocation: This position does offer relocation within INDIA based on candidate eligibility. Export Control: This is not an Export Control position. Visa Sponsorship: Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
