Engineering Lead / Engineering Manager

Engineering Lead / Engineering Manager 

Position type

Key Personnel — named in the proposal; resume and commitment letter required; oral team member

About the role

Leads engineering for client, a Drupal/PHP application running on Kubernetes in the CMS AWS cloud. You will be the Product Manager's primary technical partner, set the team's technical direction and DevSecOps practice, and stay hands-on: writing code, reviewing pull requests, and solving the hard problems yourself.

What you will do

• Serve as the primary technical partner to the Product Manager, bridging business objectives and engineering execution
• Guide the engineering team's technical direction while keeping a systems-level view of EPPE's architecture, technical roadmap, and long-term maintainability
• Contribute as an individual contributor: hands-on development, code reviews, and technical problem-solving
• Lead application development and DevSecOps: Jenkins CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, release management, and tested implementation and rollback plans
• Evaluate, govern, and integrate CMS-approved AI-assisted development tools with human-in-the-loop review, and maintain the AI tool inventory
• Translate product goals and user needs into technical approaches, and explain tradeoffs and risks to CMS in clear, non-technical terms

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or four additional years of relevant experience
• 10 years of software engineering, including 3 years as a technical lead or engineering manager
• 5 years of PHP development and 3 years of Drupal (9/10 or later) custom module development
• Hands-on experience with containers and Kubernetes, Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD, Git/GitHub, and Infrastructure as Code on AWS
• Subject-matter expertise in software development, testing, and validation
• Working knowledge of data privacy and IT security principles and requirements
• Experience evaluating and governing AI-assisted development tools with human review of all AI output

Preferred qualifications

• Experience implementing consumer-centric / user-centered design principles
• CMS Cloud experience, EKS gold images and integration with CMS Enterprise Portal (EPS) and IDM
• Acquia Drupal certification; AWS Developer or DevOps certification
• Salesforce - Certified Application or Certified Systems Architect 

Environment and tools

Drupal, Salesforce, PHP, Composer, Kubernetes (CMS EKS), Jenkins, CMS Enterprise GitHub, JFrog Artifactory, SonarQube, Snyk, Dependabot, Datadog

Location and requirements

• Remote within the United States; occasional in-person meetings at CMS headquarters, 7500 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD
• No work from any location outside the United States
• Must be able to obtain and maintain an HHS/CMS background investigation and HSPD-12 PIV credential at the level CMS designates
• Must complete CMS/HHS security, privacy, and records-management training before starting work and annually
• Position is contingent upon contract award

Our mission is to empower our clients to achieve sustainable success through efficient, cost-effective, and scalable solutions that drive significant performance improvements. We believe in delivering value-driven results and fostering a culture that attracts and retains top talent to provide scalable, adaptable services.