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Principal Engineering Lead

Washington, DC Metro Area (DMV)🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $174,300–$174,300🗓 2026-09-22 → 2026-09-26

Core

Establish and guide engineering operating standards for a complex federal healthcare delivery program, ensuring reliable service delivery at scale.

Role type

Principal Engineering Lead (Strategy & Operations)

Builds

Reliable engineering services and delivery frameworks for federal healthcare clients

Domain

Federal healthcare / Cloud & Data / DevSecOps

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

Engineering operations leadership, CI/CD governance, SLO/SLI definition, DevSecOps integration, cross-team stakeholder alignment, operational risk management, metrics-driven improvement

Preferred skills

Federal healthcare domain experience, multi-team DevSecOps leadership, observability and incident management, release automation expertise, client presentation skills

Technologies

CI/CD tools, observability platforms, incident management systems, release automation frameworks

Responsibilities

Define engineering operations standards across teams, establish CI/CD and release governance, develop SLO/SLI frameworks, set operational readiness criteria, advance DevSecOps practices, coordinate standards across application/platform/security/ops teams, identify systemic delivery risks, communicate standards and risks to stakeholders

Seniority

Principal, enterprise/program leadership level

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