Technical Lead - Full Stack (DHS USCIS)

Softrams is one of the fastest growing Digital Services firm in the Washington Metropolitan regions crafting human centered, empowering digital services with focus on HX, AI, Cloud, DevOps and Cyber Security. Offices in Leesburg VA, Baltimore MD and Plano TX and teams across USA.
1.      Recognized as one of the Top Workplaces in Technology (2021)2.      INC 5000, Fastest growing companies in America (2nd year in a row)3.      Washington Business Journal Top 75 Fastest Growing Companies in Greater Washington area4.      2020 NXT UP - Top Federal Emerging Technology and consulting firms5.      2020 Inaugural DC Metro’s Most Successful Companies6.      2020 Washington Technology Fast 507.      NVTC Tech 100 (2019, 2020)
The Role
The Technical Lead is expected to be a hands-on technical expert, capable of implementing proof of concept for solutions they design for customer requirements. As a technical lead, your insights from various customer engagements will influence future product releases. You will be required to present solutions, and recommendations to audiences including customer, senior technical staff, and business decision makers, executives, and internal engineering staff and program leadership.  The candidate should possess strong software engineering and architectural knowledge building cloud solutions. As a member of the engineering team, you will help sprint teams understand and prioritize customer requirements and feedback for the implementation and improvement of product features. We are looking for a person who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves and lean in with the developers.   To be successful in this challenging position, you will need exceptional cross-group collaboration, strategic thinking, and inter-personal skills. The candidate needs to possess excellent communication and presentation skills as well as have the ability to effectively interface with employees and customers at all levels.  As a thought leader, the candidate will also need to have a deep understanding of the best practices and strategies for web application development in the AWS cloud. 

Responsibilities

• Analyze and understand complex business and engineering challenges.
•  Understand user needs, and design end-to-end user experience by practical, reliable and efficient solutions.
•  Demonstrate clear proficiency in architecture (web app, microservices based APIs, data stores) and designing solutions using modern, scalable and opensource based solutions and demonstrate experience in explaining complex solutions in simple and intuitive manner to different stakeholders.
•  Be able to see big picture of an enterprise, connected systems, interfaces, downstream impacts when designing solutions.
•  Collaborate with multiple small teams to design, develop and deliver product features incremental and iterative manner.
•  Be a champion for modern application development practices and mentor team members towards them.
•  Supervise a team of 5-7 full stack developers 
•  Proficiency with React for frontend, NodeJS lambda for APIs, and popular relational or no-sql data stores such as DynamoDB will help this candidate be successful. 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and at least 4 years leading/ architecting all phases of the agile software development life cycle.
•  Over 8 plus years of progressive experience as developer, senior developer, lead developer etc building and architecting large scale enterprise applications using React  / Node and AWS stack.
•  Experience in working on digital transformation projects
•  Experience supervising developers in an official people leadership capacity  
•  Excellent oral and written communication skills and must be detailed oriented.
•  Demonstrated ability to deconstruct business needs, build organized solutions, and come up with product roadmaps and timelines for product implementation.
•  Demonstrated ability to analyze complex data and business for business operations
•  Demonstrated ability to understand user needs for system and interfaces and come up with requirement documentation.
•  Able to perform end-to-end business process analysis to identify gaps and come up with improvements.
•  Must be able to exercise critical and rational thinking to identify alternate solution, strengths & weakness of each options, documenting and discussing them with stakeholders to inform decisions.
•  Must be able to create, present, and defend a vision of the functional user centric solution to the rest of the team
•  Must be able to effectively and professionally communicate to management, peers and customers as well as demonstrate sound judgment/reasoning skills
•  Must have demonstrated experience in documenting complex technical and business problems in a simple & intuitive manner that oth