Jobs at Skylight Digital

Lead a cross-functional team to define product strategy, own the engagement's success, manage scope/risk/contract health, partner with engineers on architecture and secure integrations, and coach teams to deliver government services that handle sensitive data while navigating federal privacy and security constraints.

Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code. Ensure security, compliance, monitoring, logging, and auditability for federal systems. Automate developer workflows, mentor engineers, improve processes, and support continuous delivery while meeting federal data-protection and compliance requirements.

Lead and scale Skylight's growth by building strategies that leverage SBIR/STTR contract vehicles, coordinate business development, capture, proposals, account management, and marketing alignment. Drive adoption of AI/automation in growth workflows, support bids & proposals, and partner with executives to win federal professional services contracts.

Design, build, and maintain end-to-end, accessible, secure full-stack software for a federal health/civilian agency. Build Section 508-compliant UIs, backend APIs, and services; follow API-first, CI/CD, automated testing, and security best practices; identify and remediate technical debt; mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, performant government software.

Design, build, and maintain backend systems, APIs, and data layers for secure data exchanges supporting a federal agency. Ensure reliability, performance, and federal security compliance. Advocate for CI/CD, automated testing, and good engineering practices. Analyze technical debt, propose improvements, and mentor other engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams and clients.

Lead a cross-functional team to define product vision, roadmap, and backlog for a federal platform serving youth aging out of foster care. Translate research into product strategy, prioritize user-centered MVPs, run team ceremonies, measure impact, collaborate with government partners, and support knowledge transfer and adoption. Provide AI-fluent product guidance while focusing on user needs, safety, and scalability.

Lead end-to-end product design for complex government-facing systems: plan and conduct user research, define scalable interaction flows and information architecture, design accessible UIs, set design standards, mentor other designers, evangelize human-centered design, balance user and business needs in agile teams, and work with clients on sensitive-data systems.

Lead and mentor engineering teams across squads, provide architectural and cloud (AWS/Azure) oversight, standardize CI/CD, IaC, automated testing, and secure DevOps practices, embed compliance (ATO/FedRAMP) into delivery, partner with product/design, and manage people and performance in a federal contracting environment.

Lead and scope generative and evaluative user research for federal health/civilian services, recruit participants (within privacy constraints), synthesize quantitative and qualitative findings into design and policy recommendations, communicate results, mentor researchers, and advocate for user-centered service direction.

Lead cross-stakeholder discovery and requirements gathering to help states comply with CMS Medicaid community engagement rules. Set product strategy, prioritize outcomes, scope work, facilitate ceremonies, transfer skills to partners, and coordinate federal and state stakeholders toward deadline-driven compliance.

Design, build, and maintain a secure cross-platform situational-awareness platform from a single codebase (Flutter client, Go backend). Work full-stack on real-time, offline-first, and resilient systems, integrate with defense systems, harden security (PKI, mTLS, token auth), and collaborate with cross-functional teams and government partners.