The Opportunity:
As the Director of Engineering Management, you will lead and scale our engineering organization with a primary focus on people leadership, delivery predictability, and operational transparency.
You will be accountable for leading Squad and Engineering Managers and ensuring the engineering organization delivers on all the structured artifacts, status reporting, dashboards, and visibility commitments defined in our Engineering responsibilities. This role is heavily focused on building a high-performing, accountable engineering culture while maintaining clear separation from deep technical architecture and implementation decisions, which sit with System Architects, Tech Leads, and individual engineering teams.
You will operate within a lean Product organization, including Product Management, Engineering, and Go-to-Market, and play a critical role in creating trust through transparency and predictable delivery. Due to the nature of work performed within this facility, U.S. citizenship is required.
What You'll Work On:
Lead, coach, mentor, and grow a team of Squad and Engineering Managers and the broader engineering organization.
Establish, maintain, and continuously improve the required engineering artifacts and processes for every product and project, including Sprint and iteration execution plans with clear visibility into planned work and archived key architectural decisions.
Provide timely, accurate, and transparent project status reporting, including burndown charts, critical path analysis, percentage completeness, and milestone progress, at end-of-sprint, key milestones, and feature readiness gates.
Run or facilitate feature review and approval meetings at the end of each sprint and milestone to demonstrate progress and launch readiness.
Proactively surface date, feature, quality trade-offs, and drive timely alignment with Product Management.
Deliver clear evidence of “go-live” readiness and ongoing status reporting.
Maintain and share dashboards for security, scalability, availability, cost, uptime, code quality, test coverage, and incident analysis.
Ensure consistent execution of deployment safety practices, on-call rotations, and operational processes.
Implement and enforce secure-by-design processes, compliance requirements, threat modeling evidence, and coordination protocols before production changes via feature flags and release holds.
Partner closely with Product Management on roadmap feasibility, prioritization input, trade-off decisions, and rapid experimentation, while clearly owning the “how we deliver” and execution transparency.
Collaborate with technical leadership such as System Architects and Tech Leads on architecture and infrastructure topics as needed for planning and risk management.
Work effectively with CIO and Technical Enablement teams when platform decisions impact delivery.
Join us. The world can't wait.
You Have:
10+ years of experience in engineering
5+ years of experience in a progressive engineering leadership role
Experience leading multiple delivery teams, such as squads or ARTs, in a scaled agile environment including SAFe, Scrum, or Kanban
Experience implementing transparency mechanisms such as structured status reporting, dashboards, artifacts, trade-off visibility, and predictable delivery cadences
Experience building and scaling engineering management layers
Ability to translate delivery status and risks clearly for Product, GTM, and executive audiences
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering
Nice If You Have:
Experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) or Director of Engineering in a SAFe environment
Experience with modern delivery practices such as CI/CD, DevOps, or observability
Experience in security-conscious or regulated environments
Experience scaling engineering teams from early or mid-stage to 30+ engineers
Possession of excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering
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 $162,800.00 to $303,000.00 (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.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience in engineering
- 5+ years of experience in a progressive engineering leadership role
- Experience leading multiple delivery teams in a scaled agile environment
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are anchored by a dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match with immediate vesting and complemented by an employee stock purchase plan. Feedback suggests these features strengthen long‑term financial security beyond base pay.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage spans medical, dental, vision, life, disability, mental health, and wellness incentives, with multiple plan options. Tax‑advantaged accounts and wellness contributions further enhance the breadth of coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off benefits include paid holidays, PTO that grows with tenure, and paid parental leave with additional unpaid time available. Flexible scheduling and remote options support work‑life balance alongside formal leave.
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What We Do
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Why Work With Us
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