Technical Team Lead 3 - (Java, Docker, Kubernetes) at Akina, Inc in Fort Meade, Maryland

Job description

• Serve as the Technical Team Lead for the Mission Intelligence (MI) team, supporting data engineering, analytics, and automation initiatives. The MI team operates a business intelligence platform that enables enterprise-wide, data‑driven decision‑making. Your primary responsibility is to ensure the reliability, availability, and quality of this mission‑critical platform.
• Gather stakeholder requirements, assess available data, and develop solutions for delivering key metrics.
• Break down tasks into actionable steps that demonstrate consistent progress.
• Remove technical obstacles, manage expectations, and support team execution.
• Define and communicate task scope through clear documentation and tracking systems.
• Enable the team to integrate site reliability engineering practices into the operational platform.
• Mentor and guide junior software engineers and data scientists.
• Produce project management materials such as agendas, meeting notes, and design decision records.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Technical Team Lead for the Mission Intelligence (MI) team, supporting data engineering, analytics, and automation initiatives.
• Gather stakeholder requirements, assess available data, and develop solutions for delivering key metrics.
• Break down tasks into actionable steps that demonstrate consistent progress.
• Remove technical obstacles, manage expectations, and support team execution.
• Define and communicate task scope through clear documentation and tracking systems.
• Enable the team to integrate site reliability engineering practices into the operational platform.
• Mentor and guide junior software engineers and data scientists.
• Produce project management materials such as agendas, meeting notes, and design decision records.

Requirements

• Strong customer service orientation.
• Experience leading technical teams.
• Effective interpersonal skills for collaborating across diverse backgrounds and skill sets.
• Familiarity with enterprise‑scale software deployment architectures.
• Experience or exposure to site reliability engineering (SRE) principles.
• Willingness to contribute to internal and customer-facing documentation.
• YOE Requirement: 12 yrs., B.S. in a technical discipline or 4 additional yrs. in place of B.S.
• Experience with Apache NiFi.
• Experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of map‑reduce analytic environments (e.g., Hadoop).
• Understanding of end‑to‑end SIGINT collection and analysis systems.
• Experience with production CNO capabilities and operations.

Skills

Required

• Strong customer service orientation.
• Experience leading technical teams.

Preferred

• Experience with Apache NiFi.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes.

Benefits

• Akina is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team. We offer a generous compensation package that includes 24 days PTO accrued annually and 11 federal holidays. Our 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary. Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents. We offer educational assistance towards college classes and will cover costs associated with job related training and certifications.
• **The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.