Lead Engineer

🕒 August 6

🦀 Maryland – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote

💵 $150k - $195k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Ad Hoc LLC

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Ad Hoc LLC is a technology consulting firm that modernizes digital government services through human-centered design, platform and mobile development, and systems transformation. The company specializes in data interoperability, API infrastructure, DevOps and cybersecurity practices, and AI-driven/agentic automation to help federal, state, and local agencies scale services, reduce costs, and improve user experiences. Notable work includes large-scale Medicare enrollment processing, the VA Health and Benefits mobile app, and enabling access to billions of health claims via modern APIs.

📋 Description

• Work with leadership to shape the technical direction of the program • Lead and mentor engineering teams while gaining exposure to people management • Guide the design and delivery of engineering platforms, automation, and AI-enabled services for IRS teams • Translate security, compliance, and operational requirements into reusable platform capabilities • Define technical direction for internal developer platforms, CI/CD services, engineering automation, and AI-enabled tools • Design reusable platform services, APIs, templates, workflows, and integrations • Translate ATO, NIST, RMF, and IRS security requirements into automated controls, policy checks, evidence collection, and approval workflows • Develop internal developer platform capabilities using Red Hat Developer Hub, Backstage, OpenShift, and GitHub • Create self-service workflows for project onboarding, software requests, access, environments, infrastructure, and deployments • Build and maintain reusable CI/CD workflows • Design and integrate AI solutions, including retrieval-augmented generation chatbots, multi-agent systems, and AI-assisted engineering workflows • Build or support data integrations, data pipelines, metadata services, analytics, and reporting capabilities • Lead technical discovery, architecture reviews, demonstrations, planning sessions, and stakeholder discussions • Translate ambiguous requirements into technical plans and engineering deliverables • Mentor engineers, provide technical direction, improve team practices, and support hiring and professional development • Produce documentation, training, and operational guidance supporting platform adoption • Participate in bid-writing, technical demonstrations, strategic planning, and client-facing communications as needed • Support hiring, performance management, timecard reviews, PTO management, and team development

🎯 Requirements

• Twelve or more years of relevant engineering experience and a master's degree, or equivalent additional experience in lieu of a degree • Two or more years of mentoring, coaching, or technical leadership experience, including coordinating engineering work to support delivery • Must meet federal suitability requirements and pass a background investigation as a condition of employment • Experience designing and delivering production software, APIs, CI/CD systems, engineering platforms, infrastructure automation, or data pipelines • Experience integrating security, compliance, testing, and quality controls into engineering workflows • Experience with cloud-native platforms, containers, infrastructure as code, source control, automated testing, and production operations • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical decisions and tradeoffs to federal and non-technical stakeholders • Ability to work effectively with evolving priorities, incomplete requirements, and multiple organizational dependencies • Preferred: experience with federal ATO processes, RMF, NIST controls, continuous monitoring, or compliance evidence automation • Preferred: experience with Red Hat Developer Hub, Backstage, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins • Preferred: experience with retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, LLM integrations, AI agents, or multi-agent orchestration • Preferred: experience with data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, metadata management, analytics, or data governance • Preferred: experience with policy as code, software supply-chain security, automated security scanning, or audit evidence collection • Preferred: experience integrating GitHub, Jira, identity providers, artifact repositories, security tools, and enterprise systems • Preferred: general understanding of government contracting requirements and regulations

🏖️ Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance • Flexible PTO • 401K with employer match • Paid parental leave after one year of service • Employee Assistance Program • Remote work environment • Professional development and team development opportunities