


We are looking for a committed, hands-on Technical Director to join our team. You will solve unique, challenging problems for our Defense and Homeland Security customers. Help manage large volumes of critical, real-time information about issues from global to local.
This position is considered “covered” under Executive Order 4042, Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors. As a covered contractor, it is required that the individual hired to this role be fully vaccinated by their start date, except in limited circumstances where an employee is legally entitled to an accommodation. If an employee requests a reasonable accommodation due to a disability or sincerely held religious belief, RII will provide accommodations to the extent that they do not cause undue hardship on the company.
• Responsible for being the primary customer point of contact for all technical concerns and leading, coordinating and supporting overall system integration activities• Must be able to effectively listen to customer concerns, articulate the team's technical approaches, manage customer expectation, and be responsive to customer technical requests• Responsible for understanding what success means to the customer and aligns the customer, RII's and the end users interests• Responsible for identifying when customers are driving efforts outside of the contractual scope and/or assumed execution parameters• Responsible for understanding the dependencies the customer's efforts have with other System of System needs, timelines and life-cycle requirements• Responsible for establishing a technical approach and strategy that can meet RII's contractual requirements and deliver on the aligned interests• Responsible for identifying technical risks, their assessment, and mitigation strategies• Responsible for growing a team of local UK based technical and development experts, integrated into a larger international enterprise development effort
Required Skills and Experience
• Led the deployment of large complex distributed systems with complex security requirements encountered when deploying on UK Government networks• Managed technical requirements baseline in a large agile development program with significant customer engagement• Directed the development and accreditation of large distributed systems, operating across multiple government networks and security classifications• Tested and deployed large distributed applications ensuring performance, scalability, security, and availability/fault tolerance technical performance measures are met• Experience with active management of technical risks
Desired Skills and Experience
• Experience with cloud-native systems built on AWS primarily or alternatively Azure, or Google Cloud• Experience with big data technologies to include Hadoop, Accumulo, Elasticsearch, MongoDB and Cloudera EDH• Experience with web application infrastructures to include Apache HTTPD, NGINX and Spring products• Experience with containerized applications using microservice architectures• Experience with Agile methodologies and Atlassian products
Required Clearance
• This position would require a UK Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain one.
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EOE M/F/Disability/Vet