Job ID: 732371BR Date posted: Jun. 18, 2026
Description:Join the F-22 IMIS (Integrated Maintenance Information System) team supporting the operational readiness and sustainment of the F-22 Raptor. IMIS provides mission-critical hardware and software solutions that interface directly with aircraft maintenance systems, automating maintenance processes, improving diagnostic capabilities, reducing maintenance cycle times, and increasing aircraft availability.
As the Software Technical Lead, you will serve as the technical authority for software development activities across the IMIS portfolio. You will provide strategic technical leadership, drive software architecture decisions, mentor engineering teams, and ensure delivery of secure, reliable, and maintainable software solutions supporting one of the world's most advanced fighter aircraft platforms.
In this role, you will lead multidisciplinary software engineering teams through the full software development lifecycle, ensuring technical excellence, compliance with engineering and software security standards, and successful program execution.
Key responsibilities include:
Technical Leadership & Architecture
• Serve as the primary technical lead for software development activities.
• Define and maintain software architecture, design patterns, technology roadmaps, and modernization strategies.
• Lead technical decision-making, trade studies, and software architecture and design reviews.
• Ensure software solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with long-term program objectives.
• Establish engineering best practices, coding standards, and development processes across the team.
Software Development & System Integration
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in the design, development, integration, and troubleshooting of complex software systems.
• Lead integration efforts involving software, hardware interfaces, databases, and external systems.
• Drive root-cause analysis and resolution of complex technical issues affecting system performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Support software deployment, configuration management, and lifecycle sustainment activities.
UI/UX Design & Human Factors
• Guide the design and development of intuitive, efficient, and user-centered interfaces supporting aircraft maintenance operations.
• Apply UI/UX best practices, usability principles, and human-centered design methodologies to improve operator effectiveness and productivity.
• Collaborate with end users, stakeholders, and system engineers to refine workflows and optimize user experiences.
• Ensure consistency in application design, accessibility, responsiveness, and user interaction patterns across the product suite.
Agile Leadership & Software Engineering Excellence
• Lead Agile development teams utilizing Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid Agile methodologies.
• Collaborate with the IMIS Portfolio Integrator and the IMIS Release Train Engineer (RTE) to drive sprint planning, backlog refinement, technical estimation, and release planning activities.
• Champion DevSecOps practices, continuous integration, automated testing, and continuous delivery pipelines.
• Establish metrics and processes that improve software quality, development velocity, and predictability.
Technical Documentation & Compliance
• Development and review of software architecture documents, software design descriptions, interface control documents, technical specifications, and engineering artifacts.
• Ensure traceability between requirements, design, implementation, and verification activities.
• Ensure compliance with organizational, customer, cybersecurity, and quality standards.
Mentorship & Team Development
• Mentor and develop software engineers across all experience levels.
• Conduct technical reviews, code inspections, and design assessments.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as the technical bridge between engineering teams, the IMIS Portfolio Integrator, and program leadership.
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading software development teams or serving as a technical lead.
• Strong development experience in C++, Java, JavaScript, SQL, C#, Qt, and shell scripting.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs, web services, and distributed software systems.
• Experience with application containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes and container orchestration concepts.
• Experience developing and maintaining software applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Solaris operating systems.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing complex software architectures and distributed systems.
• Experience leading software development efforts through the full software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, software design patterns, and modern engineering practices.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience authoring software design documentation, technical specifications, and architecture artifacts.
• Ability to obtain and maintain required security clearance.
Desired Skills:
• Experience supporting aerospace, defense, military, or mission-critical operational systems.
• Experience with aircraft maintenance, logistics, sustainment, or ground support systems.
• Expertise in Qt-based application development and UI modernization initiatives.
• Knowledge of human factors engineering, usability testing, and UI/UX design methodologies.
• Experience with software cybersecurity requirements and secure coding practices.
• Familiarity with RMF, STIG compliance, and secure software development within DoD environments.
• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, or other enterprise container platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and DevSecOps toolchains.
• Strong understanding of database design, performance optimization, and enterprise data management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction, drive consensus, and lead cross-functional engineering teams.
• Experience modernizing legacy applications into web-based and containerized solutions.
• Experience designing and developing responsive web applications utilizing modern UI frameworks and web technologies.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Experience implementing zero-trust architectures, cloud security controls, and container security best practices within regulated or DoD environments.
• Experience supporting cloud technologies within RMF-accredited and cybersecurity-compliant environments.
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Secret
Other Important Information You Should Know
Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
Ability to Work Remotely: Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.
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Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: AERONAUTICS COMPANY
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Software Engineering
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First