Senior Solutions Engineering Lead

At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.

Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.

Salary Range: Salary range: indicative of total compensation 185K-265K

Agile Labs is the innovation engine of Agile Defense, charged with rapidly conceiving, prototyping, and operationalizing next generation capabilities for our federal and commercial customers. From mission specific GenAI assistants to DevSecOps pipelines and threat informed cyber platforms, the Lab turns bold ideas into field ready solutions that scale across the enterprise. Our multidisciplinary teams combine research, design, engineering, and delivery excellence, enabling customers to adopt cutting-edge technology at the speed of relevance while complying with the most stringent security and compliance requirements.

The Vice President of Solutions Engineering sets the technical vision and delivery blueprint for Agile Labs. The role blends deep, hands-on architecture with executive level portfolio leadership. You will shape roadmaps for Applied AI, cloud native applications, DevSecOps, and Cyber Defense offerings, then lead distributed teams in turning those strategies into production systems. Acting as chief engineer, you will engage C-level stakeholders, translate mission needs into actionable backlog and working prototypes, all while author compelling technical proposals and white papers. You will also cultivate a culture of experimentation, rapidly building prototypes that derisk adoption of emerging technologies such as multimodal foundation models, autonomous agents, confidential compute, and software supply chain security. Internally, you will provide mentorship of engineering prowess to more than 2000 employees through Community of Practice forums, Labs solutions, and enablement programs, ensuring our workforce stays ahead of industry curves.

· Define and maintain the solutions architecture framework and reference implementations for all Agile Labs service lines.

· Lead opportunity shaping, technical capture, and proposal writing for new business, owning the end-to-end solution narrative.

· Oversee delivery execution for high visibility AI, DevSecOps, and Cyber programs, ensuring outcomes meet cost, schedule, performance, and compliance goals.

· Drive the evaluation, selection, and integration of commercially available and opensource AI models, orchestration frameworks, and MLOps toolchains into secure cloud environments.

· Steward Agile Labs’ IP roadmap, prioritizing R&D investments that create reusable accelerators and differentiated capabilities.

· Represent Agile Defense in industry forums and customer briefings, speaking authoritatively on GenAI adoption, secure cloud modernization, and zero trust architectures.

· Establish engineering best practices, quality gates, and SRE informed operations that enable rapid, reliable releases in classified and unclassified domains.

· Foster a high performance, inclusive culture that attracts, develops, and retains top engineering talent.

· Provides direct line management to Solutions Architects, DevSecOps engineers, and Data Scientists across multiple concurrent programs.

Education, Background, and Years of Experience

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; Master’s preferred

· Fifteen or more years of progressive software or systems engineering experience with at least five years directing multi disciplinary delivery teams

· Proven record delivering production Generative AI, MLOps, or large scale data platforms in regulated environments

· Demonstrated success leading and supporting technical capture efforts.

· Expertise architecting and deploying transformer based and retrieval augmented GenAI solutions in AWS, Azure, GCP or hybrid clouds

· Fluency across the DevSecOps toolchain including IaC, CI/CD, SBOM generation, vulnerability management, and policy-as-code

· Hands on development proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, and/or NodeJs.

· Hands on experience using frontend and backend modern frameworks such as React, Vuejs, FastAPI, Django, Express.

· Deep understanding of zero-trust, container security, and supply chain hardening practices for federal compliance (FedRAMP, NIST SP 80053, CNSS 1253)

· Distinguished verbal and written communication skills with a track record of briefing SES, Flag Officer, or Fortune500 executives

Preferred Skills

· Experience operationalizing AI/ML capabilities on air gapped or Secret/TS/SCI networks

· Familiarity with DoD Software Modernization Strategy, Platform One, and Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) ecosystems

· Publications, patents, or opensource contributions in AI safety, privacy enhancing technologies, or secure software factory design

· Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or equivalent enterprise agile transformation leadership.

Strength Demands

· Sedentary – 10 lbs. Maximum lifting, occasional lift/carry of small articles. Some occasional walking or standing may be required. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

· Stand or Sit; Walk; Repetitive Motion; Use Hands / Fingers to Handle or Feel; Stoop, Kneel, Crouch, or Crawl; See; Push or Pull; Climb (stairs, ladders) or Balance (ascend / descend, work atop, traverse).

Employees of Agile Defense are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental. Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots. Here, you are valued as a family member, and we believe that we can accomplish great things together. Agile Defense has been highly successful in the past few years due to our employees and the culture we create together. 

What makes us Agile? We call it the 6Hs, the values that define our culture and guide everything we do. Together, these values infuse vibrancy, integrity, and a tireless work ethic into advancing the most important national security and critical civilian missions. It's how we show up every day. It's who we are.

We also believe in supporting our employees by offering a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. To explore the benefits we offer, please visit our website under the Careers section.

Happy - Be Infectious.

Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.

Helpful - Be Supportive.

Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.

Honest - Be Trustworthy.

Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.

Humble - Be Grounded.

Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.

Hungry - Be Eager.

Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.

Hustle - Be Driven.

Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.