Machine learning engineer Jobs in Springfield, IL

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Own the application development, administration, integration, DevSecOps, and operations of lifecycle of Salesforce, Deltek Costpoint, and supporting enterprise systems. - Lead application engineering, platform operations, integration, DevSecOps, and release management. - Drive platform modernization, automation, reuse, simplification, and technical debt reduction. - Adhere to architecture, engineering, data, and integration standards across CRM, ERP, and connected enterprise systems. - Ensure platform security, reliability, performance, resilience, compliance, and operational health. - Partner with business and technology leaders to prioritize capabilities, investments, and transformation initiatives. - Build and lead high-performing teams with clear accountability, standards, and workforce strategies. - Manage technology budgets, licensing, vendors, professional services, resources, and total cost of ownership. - Participate in reviewing emerging technologies, including AI, automation, analytics, and platform-native capabilities. - Typically manages multiple department(s) or a mid-sized sub-function(s) for the organization that may include multiple teams led by directors, managers, and/or supervisors.
May also lead through influence of other teams/departments. - Typically responsible for creating workforce and staffing plans for department/unit to ensure availability of human capital necessary to accomplish departmental business results. - Typically has hiring, firing, promotion and reward authority within own area, in accordance with guidelines. Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Technical Leadership: - Serve as the overall technical authority for the contract or program, responsible for the integrity, feasibility, and quality of all engineering solutions. - Ensure all technical deliverables meet contractual requirements, SLAs, performance objectives, and compliance standards. - Lead technical decision making for scope changes, tradeoffs, risk mitigation, and issue resolution throughout the program lifecycle. - Work directly with the Program Manager to document how scope changes impact contractual delivery; ensure clear and concise communications between all impacted stakeholders. - Act as the senior technical interface with Program customers, supporting design reviews, technical interchange meetings, and executive briefings. - Ensure tracking and transparency of technical work, schedule, reviews, and meetings. - Set expectations for technical rigor, documentation quality, and engineering discipline across the program team. - Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. Architecture & Engineering Direction: - Define and own the Program engineering vision and architecture, ensuring consistency across systems, platforms, and solution components. - Ensure solutions align with enterprise reference architectures, security frameworks, cloud/DevOps standards, and reuse strategies. - Chair or participate in architecture and technical review boards related to the Program and relevant corporate strategies. - Drive alignment between solution, systems, and platform engineering teams. - Ensure dependencies on third party providers and complementary solutions or components are understood, documented, and maintained. Enterprise Alignment & Reuse: - Leverage and enforce enterprise standards, accelerators, and reusable components to reduce cost, schedule risk, and technical debt. - Identify opportunities for cross program reuse and standardization, feeding lessons learned back into enterprise engineering practices. - Partner with enterprise engineering, security, DevOps, and architecture teams to ensure program solutions scale beyond a single contract. Risk, Quality & Delivery Assurance: - Own technical risk management for the program, including architectural, security, performance, and integration risks. - Ensure engineering processes support high reliability, security, scalability, and maintainability. - Provide escalation and resolution for complex technical issues impacting cost, schedule, or mission success. Minimum Requirements - Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study. - 12+ years of relevant professional experience. - Progressive experience in enterprise applications, CRM, ERP, software engineering, or platform engineering. - 7+ years of technology leadership experience managing enterprise platforms, application portfolios, or technical teams. - Demonstrated experience leading enterprise application strategy, architecture, engineering, integration, modernization, and operations. - Strong knowledge of enterprise CRM and ERP platforms, preferably Salesforce and/or Deltek Costpoint. - Experience with enterprise architecture, APIs, integration, DevSecOps, CI/CD, testing, and release management. - Strong understanding of security, identity, data governance, risk, compliance, resilience, and lifecycle management. - Experience managing technology budgets, licensing, vendors, professional services, and workforce planning. Job-Specific Minimum Requirements: - Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field. - 12+ years of progressive engineering experience, including senior technical leadership on large, complex programs. - Proven experience leading architecture development and maintenance across software, cloud, infrastructure, data, and security domains. - Strong background in government or regulated environment programs, including compliance and contract execution. - Experience interfacing with both customer and contractor teams to manage deliverables and ensure alignment with both strategic roadmaps and dynamic program needs. - Proven ability to manage competing priorities and collaborate across teams to drive outcomes. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to brief senior/executive stakeholders. - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with strong attention to detail. - Ability to obtain and maintain required security clearance, if applicable. #techjobs #veteranspage #LI-Remote EEO Statement Maximus is an equal opportunity employer.
We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics. Pay Transparency Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment.
Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package.
Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards.
Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off.
Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience.
An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation.
Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances. Accommodations Maximus provides reasonable accommodations to individuals requiring assistance during any phase of the employment process due to a disability, medical condition, or physical or mental impairment.
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