Software Delivery Lead

Responsibilities

• Actively coordinate and manage software delivery activities across development, cyber, operations, infrastructure, integration, and DevSecOps teams to support successful operational releases.
• Serve as a primary interface for operational acceptance coordination with CFC (formerly SpOC), OA representatives, mission operators, and related stakeholders.
• Work directly with Agile development teams to track delivery readiness, operational dependencies, blockers, and release timelines.
• Carefully coordinate software deliveries across heterogeneous development and operational environments, balancing differing operational constraints, security requirements, deployment timelines, and mission priorities.
• Help maximize software delivery throughput by identifying bottlenecks, synchronizing dependencies, and improving coordination across environments and stakeholder groups.
• Carefully coordinate operational integration events, release synchronization activities, demonstrations, deployment readiness efforts, and production delivery activities across multiple organizations.
• Maintain active communication and alignment among SSC, operational users, cyber teams, developers, integrators, and mission partners.
• Identify and drive resolution of delivery, operational, integration, or stakeholder issues impacting release execution.
• Develop and maintain schedules, readiness dashboards, Jira workflows, status charts, and operational tracking products used by leadership and stakeholders.
• Facilitate daily coordination among engineering, DevSecOps, SE&I, cyber, and operational teams to ensure releases remain executable and mission aligned.
• Help development teams navigate and align Agile delivery practices with operational acceptance requirements and mission assurance expectations.
• Identify practical opportunities to streamline operational delivery and release coordination activities in support of more continuous delivery approaches.

Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain or currently possess a current, in-scope Secret clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience supporting software delivery, operational integration, mission operations, release management, or systems delivery activities within DoD environments.
• Demonstrated experience actively coordinating software releases, operational deployments, or mission delivery activities across multiple technical and stakeholder organizations.
• Strong understanding of operational acceptance (OA) processes and operational mission assurance activities.
• Experience working directly with operational stakeholders such as CFC, SpOC, SSC, or related mission organizations.
• Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies and iterative delivery environments.
• Strong organizational, execution-focused coordination, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience using Jira and related collaboration or workflow tools to manage delivery tracking and operational coordination.
• Experience developing schedules, readiness dashboards, status reporting products, and operational tracking artifacts.
• Possess strong oral and written communication and presentation skills, with demonstrated ability to interface across government, contractor, technical, and operational communities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Secret or higher clearance.
• Master’s degree in engineering, computer science, or related field.
• Experience supporting transition from traditional release cycles toward CI/CD-oriented software delivery approaches.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment workflows, or DevSecOps delivery models.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and modern software delivery environments.
• Experience supporting SATCOM, mission systems, or operational C2 environments.
• Familiarity with Scrum of Scrums, Program Increment (PI) planning, or Agile release synchronization activities.
• Understanding of operational risk management and deployment readiness processes.
• Experience coordinating across cyber, software, infrastructure, and operational organizations simultaneously.
• Familiarity with collaboration ecosystems such as MS Teams, Slack, Mattermost, Confluence, or similar platforms.
• Experience operating in fast-paced software delivery or software factory environments.
• Familiarity with cATO concepts or continuous operational validation approaches.
• Experience supporting software delivery within Kubernetes-based or cloud-native environments.
• Experience supporting hybrid government/contractor software delivery environments.
• Exposure to automated testing, release gating, or deployment validation approaches.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled mission systems or modern mission platform architectures.
• Program management or systems engineering certifications, such as PMP, INCOSE CSEP or ESEP.