Engineering Manager, Lead

Engineering Manager, Lead

The Opportunity:

As a Squad Lead and Engineering Manager, you will lead one or more engineering squads with a primary focus on people leadership, predictable delivery, operational execution, and transparent communication.

You will be accountable for helping your squad plan and execute effectively while maintaining engineering artifacts, status reporting, dashboards, and operational practices defined by the engineering organization. You will build a high-performing, accountable team culture while maintaining clear separation between engineering management responsibilities and deep technical architecture and implementation decisions, which sit with system architects, technology leads, and individual engineering teams.

You will operate within a lean product organization, partnering closely with product management, engineering, and go-to-market to create trust through transparency, clear trade-offs, and predictable delivery.

What You'll Work On:

• Lead, coach, mentor, and grow engineers while building a high-performing, collaborative, and accountable squad.
• Own squad-level execution, ensuring planned work is clearly defined, prioritized, tracked, and communicated throughout each sprint and iteration.
• Establish and maintain required engineering artifacts, including sprint plans, delivery plans, key decisions, risks, dependencies, and milestone tracking.
• Provide timely, accurate, and transparent status reporting, including burndown, milestone progress, percentage completeness, critical path risks, and delivery forecasts.
• Facilitate sprint reviews, feature reviews, and milestone readiness discussions to demonstrate progress and identify gaps to launch readiness.
• Proactively identify schedule, scope, quality, resource, and dependency risks, and work with product management and technical leadership to resolve trade-offs.
• Maintain clear evidence of feature and "go-live" readiness, and communicate changes in delivery confidence as work progresses.
• Monitor and communicate squad-level operational health, including availability, uptime, incident trends, code quality, test coverage, scalability, security, and cost.
• Ensure consistent execution of deployment safety practices, on-call rotations, incident response, and other operational processes.
• Support secure-by-design practices, compliance requirements, threat modeling, and appropriate coordination before production changes.
• Partner closely with product management on roadmap feasibility, prioritization, sequencing, experimentation, and delivery trade-offs.
• Work closely with technology leads and system architects to identify technical risks, dependencies, and architectural considerations that could affect delivery.
• Escalate significant delivery, staffing, technical, or operational risks to engineering leadership with clear context and recommended actions.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering processes, delivery practices, and management operating rhythms across the organization.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• 2+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role such as engineering manager, squad lead, or team lead
• Experience leading an engineering team through planning, execution, delivery, and operational support
• Experience with Agile delivery practices, including Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe
• Experience creating and maintaining delivery visibility through status reporting, planning artifacts, dashboards, metrics, and regular execution cadences
• Ability to identify and communicate delivery risks, dependencies, and trade-offs clearly to product, engineering, and leadership audiences
• Bachelor's degree in CS or Engineering

Nice If You Have:

• Experience working within a scaled engineering organization or SAFe environment
• Experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE), technology lead, engineering manager, or squad lead
• Experience with modern engineering practices such as CI/CD, DevOps, observability, and automated testing
• Experience working in security-conscious, regulated, or compliance-driven environments
• Experience helping scale an engineering team or establishing effective engineering management practices
• Experience partnering with product management on roadmap planning, prioritization, and delivery trade-offs
• Experience managing production services, on-call rotations, incident response, or operational readiness
• Possession of strong people leadership, coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Master's degree in CS, Engineering, or a related technical field

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model
Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.

• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.

• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.