Unified Data Platform Technical Development Lead
The Leidos Digital Modernization Sector has a career opportunity for a Unified Data Management Development Lead supporting the Global Solutions Management - Operations II (GSM-O II) contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). This contract supports the Operations, Sustainment, Maintenance, Repair, and Defense of the Defense Information System Network (DISN) within the DoD Information Network (DODIN), as well as mission modernization efforts that improve operational effectiveness, resiliency, and service delivery for DISA and its mission partners.
The Unified Data Management Development Lead will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for developing and leading execution of the project data strategy across the Global Management System (GMS) environment. This role will shape and deliver the data architecture, data lake and lakehouse patterns, streaming and batch data pipelines, data sharing capabilities, data catalog and governance approach, and mission-focused data products that enable enterprise situational awareness, observability, predictive analytics, automation, and future self-healing network capabilities.
The successful candidate will lead hands-on development and implementation across a complex AWS IL5/IL6 system-of-systems that collects, normalizes, correlates, enriches, shares, and visualizes large volumes of network, cyber, performance, configuration, event, and operational data. The role requires a strategic and flexible mindset to maximize the value of existing program investments, including Confluent Kafka, Elastic Stack, Databricks, AWS, ServiceNow, IBM Watson AIOps, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, and automated CI/CD pipelines, while also defining the target-state architecture, roadmap, processes, tools, techniques, and development practices needed to take the project into the future.
This is a senior individual-contributor/technical lead role that will work closely with the Data Driven Operations Manager, Chief Engineer, Chief Architect, product owners, development teams, network engineers, cyber teams, operations users, vendors, and Government stakeholders. The UDM Development Lead will translate mission needs into executable technical plans, lead solution design and development, mentor engineers, drive technical decision-making, brief senior stakeholders, and ensure the data platform delivers measurable business and mission value while meeting DoD cybersecurity, compliance, performance, reliability, and cost objectives.
Primary Responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
- Lead the technical strategy, roadmap, architecture, development, and implementation of Unified Data Management capabilities across the GMS data ecosystem.
- Define the current-state and target-state data architecture for a secure, scalable, cloud-based data platform spanning AWS IL5/IL6, Confluent Kafka, Elastic Stack, Databricks, ServiceNow, Watson AIOps, and related data and automation tools.
- Architect and lead implementation of data lake, lakehouse, streaming, and batch-processing patterns for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured operational data.
- Lead design and development of data pipelines that ingest, normalize, correlate, enrich, route, retain, index, catalog, and share data from network, cyber, service management, telemetry, and automation sources.
- Maximize the use of existing data tools and technologies in the environment while evaluating new tools, integration patterns, and modernization approaches based on business value, mission value, total cost of ownership, security, operational supportability, and technical fit.
- Lead the design and implementation of data sharing capabilities across the organization, including data catalog, metadata management, data lineage, schema management, data quality, data contracts, and secure access control patterns.
- Design and guide implementation of mission-focused data products that support network operations, cyber ope