Launchpad Engineering Manager

The Opportunity: CACI is seeking a Launchpad Engineering Manager to support and lead key project onboarding efforts, environment readiness, and integration activities across the Launchpad and NED workstreams. This role is responsible for coordinating technical intake, ensuring systems meet readiness criteria, supporting identity data onboarding, and guiding teams through established ICAM processes. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong cross‑team leadership, technical troubleshooting capability, and a detailed understanding of NASA ICAM onboarding workflows. Responsibilities: Lead NASA Launchpad onboarding efforts for new applications, services, and data sources, ensuring all technical, security, and environment readiness criteria are met. Serve as a point of coordination across NASA ICAM teams, including application owners, cybersecurity, infrastructure, NED identity ingestion teams, and testing groups. Support NED operational functions such as identity data mapping, attribute validation and schema management, access controls, and readiness assessments for identity ingestion workflows. Provide leadership during technical intake discussions, helping teams articulate requirements, identify gaps, and align with Launchpad processes. Coordinate environment configuration and validation activities across development, test, and production tiers. Lead troubleshooting efforts by driving issue identification, root‑cause analysis, resolution planning, and multi‑team collaboration. Support execution of integration testing cycles, defect triage activities, and verification of identity service functionality. Maintain high‑quality operational and technical documentation including runbooks, process guides, system integration checklists, and technical diagrams. Track progress, maintain status dashboards, escalate risks, and ensure Launchpad/NED onboarding activities remain on schedule. Champion consistency in onboarding practices by reinforcing standards, processes, and quality expectations. Mentor team members and contribute to process improvements within Launchpad and NED workstreams. Participate in and lead Agile processes, including daily scrums, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and mini reviews (demos); prepare clear, concise status updates and progress reports for leadership to ensure visibility into Launchpad and NED activities. Participate and function as primary technical point of contact in security assessments and system compliance with NIST 800-63 controls Coordinate operational update activities and new service implementation activities within the Launchpad team. Prepare and lead weekly and monthly project reviews with the NASA customer and user community. Qualifications: Required: Experience in technical onboarding, system integration, and environment readiness within enterprise or government programs. Strong understanding of identity and access management concepts, identity data flows, and authentication/authorization patterns. Demonstrated ability to lead cross‑functional technical teams and coordinate multiple onboarding efforts concurrently. Proficiency in troubleshooting configuration issues, log analysis, and collaborating with developers, application owners, and infrastructure teams. Strong documentation skills with the ability to produce internal onboarding artifacts, workflow diagrams, and operational guides. Familiarity with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and secure communications, identity mapping, attribute validation, and multi‑environment coordination. Preferred Qualifications: Experience working with ICAM systems, Launchpad processes, identity management life cycle, and onboarding frameworks. Background in civilian agency environments, STIG compliance considerations, or government program readiness activities. Experience supporting integration and release testing, defect management, and cross‑team technical assessments. Leadership & Soft Skills Strong communication and facilitation skills with the ability to lead discussions across technical and non‑technical stakeholders. Ability to organize and manage multiple workstreams while maintaining alignment with onboarding timelines. Demonstrated ownership mindset with a focus on consistency, accountability, and process discipline. Collaborative, team‑focused approach with willingness to mentor, coordinate, and guide colleagues through complex problem sets. Level Description: ◦ Recognized subject matter expert ◦ Manages large projects ◦ Limited oversight from manager ◦ Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level technical team members ◦ Problems faced are difficult and often complex ◦ Influences others regarding policies, practices, and procedures Organizational Impact: ◦ Works to achieve operational targets with major impact on the departmental results. Contributes to the development of goals for the department and planning efforts (budgets, operational plans, etc.). May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area. Work is performed with minimal oversight. Innovation & Complexity: ◦ Demonstrates innovative influence for Business Groups or projects. ◦ Responsible for making moderate to significant improvements of systems or products to enhance performance of program/project. ◦ Problems and issues faced are numerous and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem. Regularly employs ingenuity and creativity to develop new technical solutions to solve difficult and moderately complex problems. Problems typically impact multiple departments or specialties. Problems are typically solved through drawing from prior experience and analysis of issues. Communication & Influence: ◦ Communicates with parties within and outside of own job function. Typically has responsibility for communicating with parties external to the organization (e.g., customers, vendors, etc.) ◦ Works to influence project/team leaders within and outside of the job function at project/program regarding solution design, process, and/or approaches Leadership & Talent Management: ◦ Typically, responsible for providing guidance, coaching and training to other employees within technical discipline. Typically, responsible for leading large or complex projects that involve technically challenging requirements at this level, involving delegation of work and review of work products. Knowledge & Experience: ◦ Requires deep knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience. Typically viewed as having a specialty within discipline. May have broad knowledge of project management. ◦ Typically has a University Degree (BA/BS) or equivalent experience and minimum 7 years of related work Financial Responsibility: ◦ N/A Program Headcount: ◦ N/A