Software Engineer Administrative Services Lead

Fusion Innovations recent growth has earned us a top spot in the Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America and in Washington Business Journals Best Places to Work multiple years in a row. Our team members are passionate about their work and are empowered to contribute their unique skills and perspectives to our projects. Here at Fusion we put people first. When you join us you dont just join a company you join a family. If you are ready to be part of a fun and engaging team where your innovative ideas are heard supported and make ever lasting mission impacts for our Nations most sensitive programs you have come to the right place.

Position Overview

Fusion Innovation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer Administrative Services Lead to own the design delivery performance and operational evolution of the administrative services domain for a large-scale globally distributed mission platform. This position will provide technical leadership across control-plane services administrative interfaces user and role management authentication and authorization system lifecycle management and peripheral/device management services. The Administrative Services Lead will also serve as a key technical point of contact for peripheral vendors middleware providers and SDK suppliers helping evaluate certify integrate and maintain third-party components within the platform.

This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced engineer who combines software and service ownership distributed systems expertise platform administration design integration discipline and technical leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the administrative services portfolio for a globally distributed software platform including control-plane services administrative interfaces user and role administration authentication and authorization installation and upgrade services and peripheral/middleware management.

• Define and maintain the architecture and delivery roadmap for administrative capabilities across multiple environments and deployment types.

• Lead the development and sustainment of administrative experiences supporting system administrators operations personnel field and support teams site or regional managers and role-specific users.

• Design and maintain user provisioning and lifecycle management capabilities.

• Develop and support role-based access control permissions models delegated administration and secure administrative workflows.

• Oversee integration and lifecycle management for hardware peripherals drivers SDKs vendor APIs middleware services and related dependencies.

• Serve as the primary technical lead for vendor engagement related to device and middleware integration and certification.

• Establish processes for evaluating and introducing new peripherals and middleware providers including technical evaluation certification criteria compatibility testing documentation and supportability requirements.

• Ensure administrative services support reliable installation upgrades rollback and operational support across geographically distributed sites.

• Manage compatibility across software firmware drivers SDKs middleware and vendor releases.

• Partner with Software Architecture Platform Engineering Security Field Engineering Operations and QA teams to ensure the administrative and control-plane stack is secure reliable and supportable.

• Independently manage the administrative services domain and drive technical and delivery outcomes.

• Participate in technical triage and root-cause analysis involving authentication user access administration device integration and platform management workflows.

• Define service boundaries ownership models technical roadmaps and operational standards for the administrative services portfolio.

• Develop technical design documentation and communicate architecture risks tradeoffs and recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Data Engineering Information Systems or a related technical field; four additional years of relevant experience may substitute for a degree.

• 10 years of software engineering platform engineering or related technical experience including 4 years leading a major technical service area or engineering team.

• Strong experience designing and delivering administrative or control-plane services for complex distributed systems.

• Experience with one or more of the following:

  • User and role management

  • Authentication and authorization services

  • Administrative UI/UX for operational systems

  • Installation upgrade and lifecycle orchestration

  • Device or peripheral management platforms

• Experience leading cross-functional delivery across software engineering operations QA field engineering and support teams.

• Proven experience integrating third-party components into production systems including hardware peripherals SDKs middleware drivers and versioned dependencies.

• Strong understanding of compatibility management across software firmware drivers middleware and vendor releases.

• Experience supporting multiple user personas with varying levels of administrative access.

• Ability to engage external vendors and establish technical integration documentation testing and certification standards.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to balance roadmap development and operational support requirements.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills including technical design documentation and executive-level communication.

• Active TS/SCI security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in Data Engineering Computer Science Analytics or a related technical field.

• Experience supporting Linux-based distributed environments.

• Experience with Java-based backend services and modern web administrative interfaces.

• Experience with role-based access control identity federation and secure administrative workflows.

• Experience remotely managing fielded systems across geographically distributed sites.

• Experience designing software certification or onboarding processes for third-party peripherals and vendors.

• Familiarity with release engineering and compatibility testing for drivers SDKs and middleware.

• Experience supporting highly available or mission-critical operational platforms.

• Experience developing technical documentation and knowledge artifacts for administrative workflows upgrade procedures and supported-device matrices.

• Experience with modern frontend administrative frameworks such as .

• Experience with Consul Nomad Vault or equivalent orchestration and service-discovery technologies.

• Experience with observability and operational tooling for control-plane services.

• Familiarity with image capture scanning reader devices kiosk/eGate-style systems or other edge peripherals.

• Experience supporting multilingual administrative interfaces or globally deployed platforms.

• Experience supporting formal certification and testing programs for external hardware or middleware providers.

Travel

Domestic and/or international project travel may be required.

Compensation & Benefits

Fusion Innovation anticipates the annual base salary for this position will generally range from $100000 to $215000. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors including but not limited to:

• Relevant education certifications and training

• Years of direct applicable experience with this work and the customer

• Contract labor category requirements skill level contract bill rate and hours allocation

• Alignment with the positions responsibilities

• Additional specialized skills

In addition to base salary eligible employees may be considered for discretionary bonuses and are eligible for Fusion Innovations comprehensive benefits package which includes medical dental vision company-sponsored retirement contributions paid leave professional development opportunities and other employee benefits.

Fusion Innovation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to disability protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law. Fusion Innovation participates in E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility for all newly hired employees. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process please contact .

Required Skills

• Active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Data Engineering Information Systems or a related technical field; four additional years of relevant experience may substitute for a degree.
• 10 years of software engineering platform engineering or related technical experience including 4 years leading a major technical service area or engineering team.
• Strong experience designing and delivering administrative or control-plane services for complex distributed systems.

• Experience with one or more of the following:

• User and role management

• Authentication and authorization services

• Administrative UI/UX for operational systems

• Installation upgrade and lifecycle orchestration

• Device or peripheral management platforms

• Experience leading cross-functional delivery across software engineering operations QA field engineering and support teams.
• Proven experience integrating third-party components into production systems including hardware peripherals SDKs middleware drivers and versioned dependencies.
• Strong understanding of compatibility management across software firmware drivers middleware and vendor releases.
• Experience supporting multiple user personas with varying levels of administrative access.
• Ability to engage external vendors and establish technical integration documentation testing and certification standards.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to balance roadmap development and operational support requirements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including technical design documentation and executive-level communication.

Desired Skills

• Masters degree in Data Engineering Computer Science Analytics or a related technical field.

• Experience supporting Linux-based distributed environments.

• Experience with Java-based backend services and modern web administrative interfaces.

• Experience with role-based access control identity federation and secure administrative workflows.

• Experience remotely managing fielded systems across geographically distributed sites.

• Experience designing software certification or onboarding processes for third-party peripherals and vendors.

• Familiarity with release engineering and compatibility testing for drivers SDKs and middleware.

• Experience supporting highly available or mission-critical operational platforms.

• Experience developing technical documentation and knowledge artifacts for administrative workflows upgrade procedures and supported-device matrices.

• Experience with modern frontend administrative frameworks such as .

• Experience with Consul Nomad Vault or equivalent orchestration and service-discovery technologies.

• Experience with observability and operational tooling for control-plane services.

• Familiarity with image capture scanning reader devices kiosk/eGate-style systems or other edge peripherals.

• Experience supporting multilingual administrative interfaces or globally deployed platforms.

• Experience supporting formal certification and testing programs for external hardware or middleware providers.

Additional Details

Fusion Innovation anticipates the annual base salary for this position will generally range from $100000 to $215000. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors including but not limited to:

• Relevant education certifications and training

• Years of direct applicable experience with this work and the customer

• Contract labor category requirements skill level contract bill rate and hours allocation

• Alignment with the positions responsibilities

• Additional specialized skills

In addition to base salary eligible employees may be considered for discretionary bonuses and are eligible for Fusion Innovations comprehensive benefits package which includes medical dental vision company-sponsored retirement contributions paid leave professional development opportunities and other employee benefits.

Fusion Innovation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to disability protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law. Fusion Innovation participates in E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility for all newly hired employees. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process please contact .

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