Software Development Team Lead

Overview

As a Software Development Team Lead, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice as a technical project manager or team lead valuating, identifying, and developing complex software solutions using cloud-native services, APIs, and micros-service solutions. We are looking for candidates with 5-7 years experience with responsibility for leading cross functional and technical teams to drive projects from conceptual design feasibility through requirements, budget, completed design, implementation, testing, and deployment.  

Contributions

Responsibilities include: 

 

• Serves as the technical delivery leader, accountable for completion of team delivery efforts including quality oversight and client acceptance 
• Fosters and promotes innovative thinking across the client environment 

• Builds and maintains client relationships, developing a strategic vision for clients and internal teams  
• Handles challenging client situations and offers technical and business guidance & direction to client executives  
• Manages staff and monitors performance and training needs to create skills expansion and career advancement opportunity 
• Design, develop, and deploy modular micro-services and cloud-based systems  
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to other developers  

• Write and debug code for innovative software solutions 
• Troubleshoot software quality, security and reliability issues 
• Participate in code reviews and quality assurance activities 
• Automate unit and functional tests 
• Test and examine code written by others and analyzing results 

• Ensure that software is secure against cyber threats 
• Identifying technical problems, performing root cause analysis, and developing software updates and ‘fixes’  
• Support production releases (including deployment, troubleshooting, and testing) 
• Document software code, features, and training guides 
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations  

• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems 
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members  
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided 
• Leads and manages team members 
• Assists in sales and technical strategy activities beyond their current program 

• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided 
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other team members. 

Qualifications

Required: 

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance 
• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience 
• At least 15 years of total experience
• Proven experience of leading the deployment of enterprise and custom Software solutions in client environments 
• Demonstrated ability to influence and consult while providing thought leadership to sponsors/stakeholders in solving governance, program/project management, business process and/or technical problems 
• Proven experience growing and selling while delivering 
• 8 Years of experience with one or more programming languages (Java, Ruby, react, C++, C) 
• 8 Years of experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket 
• 8 Years of experience with one or more programming or scripting languages (Python, Bash, JavaScript)  
• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance 
• 5 Years of experience with one or more clouds (I.e. AWS, Azure, or GCP) 
• 5 Years of experience using CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Pipelines, CircleCI, TravisCI 
• 5 years of application development experience in an Agile environment
• Experience implementing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes 
• Experience implementing Automated Testing frameworks including unit testing 
• Has an active Public Trust clearance
• CompTIA Security+ certification 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills 

 

About steampunk

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $130,000 to $160,000.  T