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 
• 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 experience managing U.S. government contracts or programs
• 3 Years of experience with Drupal and/or Apigee

• Experience implementing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes 
• Experience implementing Automated Testing frameworks including unit testing 

 

Preferred: 

 

• MS Degree 

• Certifications: 

• AWS Cloud Practioner 
• AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate 
• Azure Developer Associate 
• SAFe Scrum Master Certification 

• Certifed Scrum Master 

• 5 years of application development experience in an Agile environment 
• Excellent written and verbal commun