Vice President Software Engineering Jobs in Virginia

Description

The Vice President of Product Development will provide strategic and technical leadership for the development, delivery, and sustainment of the company's platform solutions, with primary responsibility for a hardened Android/AOSP environment. This role owns the end-to-end product development lifecycle, including product roadmap execution, system architecture, software development, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.

The successful candidate will establish and drive the technical vision for the platform, making critical architectural and engineering decisions across the software stack while ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer requirements. As a hands-on technical leader, this individual will remain actively engaged in system design, code quality initiatives, technical reviews, and the resolution of complex engineering challenges.

In addition to technical leadership, the Vice President of Product Development will build, develop, and lead a high-performing engineering organization consisting of engineering managers and individual contributors. This includes fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement while providing mentorship and professional development opportunities for team members.

The role is responsible for ensuring that all platform capabilities meet applicable security, compliance, and assurance requirements for defense, federal, and commercial customers. The Vice President of Product Development will establish and enforce secure software development practices, quality standards, release management processes, and engineering best practices to ensure the delivery of reliable, scalable, and secure products.

Working closely with executive leadership, product management, program management, and customer-facing teams, this individual will translate market opportunities, customer needs, and strategic priorities into executable technical plans and successful product outcomes. The position also oversees engineering resource planning, budgeting, workforce development, technical recruiting, succession planning, and overall organizational growth.

The Vice President of Product Development will perform other duties and responsibilities as required to support business objectives and organizational success.

Qualifications & Skills

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including significant hands-on development, technical leadership, and engineering management responsibilities.
• Proven success leading and scaling high-performing engineering organizations at the Director, Vice President, or senior executive level.
• Deep expertise in software engineering, including large-scale distributed systems, platform development, embedded systems, mobile applications, and Android/AOSP environments.
• Demonstrated track record of driving products from concept and architecture through development, launch, commercialization, and ongoing product evolution.
• Experience delivering complex, production-grade software solutions on schedule while meeting quality, performance, security, and scalability requirements.
• Strong knowledge of modern software development methodologies, including system architecture, secure software development, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code review practices, and Agile development frameworks.
• Proven ability to align technical strategy with business objectives, customer requirements, and go-to-market initiatives.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, team-building, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience partnering with executive leadership, product management, and customer-facing organizations.
• Experience with Axon technologies, Android platforms, software applications, and enterprise software development preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.

This is a Permanent position based out of Dulles, VA.

The pay range for this position is $270000.00 - $340000.00/yr.

Medical, PTO, 401(k), equity, and bonus offerings!

This is a fully onsite position in Dulles,VA.

This position is anticipated to close on Aug 7, 2026.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

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