Agile Defense · 2 weeks ago
Senior Solutions Engineering Lead
McLean, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$185K/yr - $265K/yr
15+ years expAgile Defense is committed to bringing adaptive innovation to support critical missions through advanced technologies. The Senior Solutions Engineering Lead will set the technical vision for Agile Labs, overseeing the development of AI, cloud applications, and Cyber Defense offerings while engaging with C-level stakeholders and mentoring engineering teams.
Information ServicesInformation TechnologySoftware
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Define and maintain the solutions architecture framework and reference implementations for all Agile Labs service lines
Lead opportunity shaping, technical capture, and proposal writing for new business, owning the end-to-end solution narrative
Oversee delivery execution for high visibility AI, DevSecOps, and Cyber programs, ensuring outcomes meet cost, schedule, performance, and compliance goals
Drive the evaluation, selection, and integration of commercially available and opensource AI models, orchestration frameworks, and MLOps toolchains into secure cloud environments
Steward Agile Labs’ IP roadmap, prioritizing R&D investments that create reusable accelerators and differentiated capabilities
Represent Agile Defense in industry forums and customer briefings, speaking authoritatively on GenAI adoption, secure cloud modernization, and zero trust architectures
Establish engineering best practices, quality gates, and SRE informed operations that enable rapid, reliable releases in classified and unclassified domains
Foster a high performance, inclusive culture that attracts, develops, and retains top engineering talent
Provides direct line management to Solutions Architects, DevSecOps engineers, and Data Scientists across multiple concurrent programs
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; Master's preferred
Fifteen or more years of progressive software or systems engineering experience with at least five years directing multi disciplinary delivery teams
Proven record delivering production Generative AI, MLOps, or large scale data platforms in regulated environments
Demonstrated success leading and supporting technical capture efforts
Expertise architecting and deploying transformer based and retrieval augmented GenAI solutions in AWS, Azure, GCP or hybrid clouds
Fluency across the DevSecOps toolchain including IaC, CI/CD, SBOM generation, vulnerability management, and policy-as-code
Hands on development proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, and/or NodeJs
Hands on experience using frontend and backend modern frameworks such as React, Vuejs, FastAPI, Django, Express
Deep understanding of zero-trust, container security, and supply chain hardening practices for federal compliance (FedRAMP, NIST SP 80053, CNSS 1253)
Distinguished verbal and written communication skills with a track record of briefing SES, Flag Officer, or Fortune500 executives
Preferred
Experience operationalizing AI/ML capabilities on air gapped or Secret/TS/SCI networks
Familiarity with DoD Software Modernization Strategy, Platform One, and Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) ecosystems
Publications, patents, or opensource contributions in AI safety, privacy enhancing technologies, or secure software factory design
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or equivalent enterprise agile transformation leadership
Company
Agile Defense
Agile Defense is an information technology company located in Reston. It is a sub-organization of Agile-BOT.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2022-11-16Acquired
Leadership Team
Rick Wagner
Chief Executive Officer
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Bill Luebke
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2025-12-18
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