Hackathons - Team Lead (FedD068)
Defenseunicorns · Remote
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**Role: Hackathons - Team Lead (FedD068)** ## Role Description As a **Team Lead at Defense Unicorns**, you’ll be the technical backbone of our hackathon program—setting architecture, integration patterns, and technical guardrails for every event. You’ll work across the team to design, plan, and execute large-scale, community-facing hackathons throughout the year, moving fluidly between technical strategy and energizing a room full of mission heroes, operators, and builders. You’ll evaluate and integrate the right mix of partner technologies (cloud providers, Defense Unicorns platform/tooling, and the broader defense vendor ecosystem) into a durable reference architecture that works within controlled environments. You’ll also serve as a credible technical voice with government stakeholders and industry partners—ensuring each hackathon is built on a foundation that helps participants succeed and produces outcomes that can transition to production. ## Responsibilities ### Technical Direction and Architecture - Set and own the overall technical direction for each hackathon, grounded in **UDS** and Defense Unicorns’ platform/tooling philosophy - Evaluate and integrate partner technologies and third-party tools to ensure broad compatibility across diverse participant stacks - Define technical guardrails, reference architectures, and integration patterns that guide teams toward durable, deployable outcomes - Identify technical risks early and develop mitigation strategies with the **Mission Manager** ### Stakeholder Engagement - Serve as a technical voice in external engagements with government mission heroes, industry partners, and hackathon participants - Translate complex technical capabilities into compelling narratives that communicate mission impact and drive stakeholder buy-in - Build enthusiasm and credibility with a wide range of audiences—from senior decision-makers to individual contributors - Support the Mission Manager in cultivating and sustaining relationships across the DoW innovation ecosystem ### Hackathon Execution - Partner closely with the team, partners, and Mission Heroes across the full event lifecycle (planning → execution → post-event follow-up) - Design and deliver technical programming, workshops, and participant enablement content - Capture technical outcomes and ensure post-event documentation supports continuity and reuse ## Required Qualifications - Strong hands-on technical background; demonstrated experience designing/building software systems in complex, multi-technology environments - Hands-on experience with **UDS** (or similar platform abstraction and deployment frameworks) - Experience engaging directly with government/defense stakeholders in a technical capacity, including translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences - Comfort with presales/customer-facing roles that blend technical credibility with the ability to generate excitement and communicate value - Demonstrated understanding of software delivery and platform engineering practices for **air-gapped environments** (offline package management, artifact distribution, secure update mechanisms) ## Preferred Qualifications - Familiarity with the **DoW innovation ecosystem** (programs, procurement, mission priorities) - Experience supporting/participating in hackathons, integration events, or innovation sprints in a technical leadership capacity - Ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and build structure where non
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