Technical Lead

Technical Lead at Maximus

We are seeking a Technical Lead to join our team supporting an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) client. This role is remote and requires an MBI clearance.

The Technical Lead will work with and lead a team of data engineers and ETL specialists, focusing on building and maintaining data pipelines from on-premises systems to Databricks. This position includes production support, which may involve overnight and weekend runs of pipelines as part of an on-call rotation. The role demands hands-on development and troubleshooting expertise in a production environment.

Furthermore, the Technical Lead will provide Subject Matter Expert (SME) level technical expertise for optimizing ETL pipelines, performance tuning queries, and mentoring junior and mid-level team members.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Build and design high-level architecture documentation.
• Collaborate with other teams to define supporting infrastructure and tools needed.
• Learn and analyze new technologies and industry best practices for organizational adoption.
• Articulate and present the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues, and plans to leadership.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Initiate, plan, document, manage, and maintain technical projects.
• Lead and guide technical staff, serving as the liaison between business and technical aspects of projects.
• Create, update, and manage high-quality project documentation, including executive briefings and reports.
• Develop and maintain project schedule(s).
• Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise technical project team members and contractors, fostering accountability.
• Lead production and pre-production troubleshooting sessions to identify issues, performance bottlenecks, and formulate remediation strategies.
• Ensure the team delivers all project artifacts as agreed upon with the IRS client.
• Maintain direct responsibility for developing and deploying components or complete application functionality using Databricks, Informatica, SQL, and other tools.
• Design software components from business requirements in collaboration with team members.
• Support high-level architecture design and provide technical leadership for highly performant, robust, and reliable solutions that scale.
• Position is remote within the US. Ideal candidates will be in areas surrounding Lanham MD, Farmers Branch, TX or Austin TX areas. Local candidates may attend meetings occasionally at the IRS facility.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 7 years of relevant professional experience required.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university required; an additional four (4) years of related work experience can substitute for a degree.
• Minimum of four (4) years of experience leading a technical team in a production environment.
• At least ten (10) years of hands-on experience working with databases/ETL applications building data pipelines.
• Must possess an active IRS MBI clearance.
• Minimum of two (2) years’ experience working with IRS systems and data such as IRTF, IRMF, CADE2, IMF, BMF, BRTF, and others.
• Experience integrating a range of technologies in a large federal IT environment, such as the IRS.
• Knowledge of cloud-based technologies and integration of on-prem to on-cloud migrations.
• Implementation knowledge of AWS, Java, Python, REST API’s, various RDBMS like Oracle, Databricks, RedShift, and others.
• Experience with performance optimization of data pipelines.
• Expertise in building CLI based solutions using a variety of available tools.
• Knowledge of Databricks and ability to write SQL queries and Python scripts to query and manipulate data.
• Knowledge of ETL and BI tools and able to understand and support ETL and BI functionalities of the application.
• Good problem-solving skills with architectural, design, and hands-on development experience.
• Experience working in and a general understanding of Red Hat Linux OS, or other Unix-like OS.
• Experience with Shell scripting.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Experience building data pipelines moving data from on-premises to Databricks running on AWS cloud in the IRS environment.
• Expertise with AWS DMS and AWS CLI tools.
• Experience building complex data pipelines using Control-M as the orchestration tool.
• Hands-on implementation experience with data migration, data wrangling, and data manipulation.
• Proven experience with using COTS products and custom scripting to build ETL pipelines.
• Prior implementation and development knowledge of Bash scripts.
• Excellent programming language skills in Python on Linux environment.
• Understanding of application and transport layer security.
• Knowledge of SQL and performance tuning techniques.
• Experience with Jenkins and automated testing techniques.
• Familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Prior implementation of containerization using Docker, Open Shift, or AWS EC2 instances.

Key skills/competency

• Data Engineering
• ETL Development
• Databricks
• Cloud Migration (AWS)
• Technical Leadership
• SQL & Python
• Performance Tuning
• IRS Systems
• Shell Scripting
• Project Management