Agile IT Development Services Technical Lead

Program Description: The Program manages a collaborative multi-enclave (Unclassified, Secret, and Top Secret) portfolio of networks to provide a safe, secure, and collaborative environment in which to store, process, enrich, and analyze data. The program streamlines the examination process by offering a “one-stop shop” approach for examiners to leverage a myriad of tools and applications needed to help illustrate the totality of the criminal activity and actor(s) in question.

Position Description: Agile Development Services Technical Lead - We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Agile Development Technical Lead to guide a cross-functional software development team through the full lifecycle of agile delivery. The ideal candidate will combine strong technical expertise with a passion for agile principles and servant leadership. You will be responsible for technical direction, team mentorship, and delivering high-quality, scalable software solutions in a collaborative environment across multiple teams.

Clearance Requirement: Active Top Secret with eligibility to Special Compartmented Information (SCI)

Requirements

Responsibilities:

• Ability to provide support services for multiple applications including custom built interfaces, ETL, and open sources applications.
• Ability to manage multiple development teams.
• Experience leading the following activities
• Automated testing and delivery pipeline
• Back-end development support
• Cloud development
• Containerization
• Development and operations (DevOps)
• Engagement management
• Front-end development Hardware management
• Program management
• Security engineering
• Software development
• Software management
• Systems analysis and technical evaluation
• Systems architecture
• Testing and validation
• Usability and user experience engineering
• Experience working with tools such as:
• Angular
• .NET C#
• MySQL, Postrges, MS SQL
• Elasticsearch
• Python
• RabbitMQ
• Boostrap
• Django
• React
• NodeJS
• Redis
• GraphQL
• Svelte
• Splunk
• Cribl
• Apache Nifi
• Apache Kafka

Required Skills:

• Active top-secret clearance.
• 13+ years of experience and a Master's degree in relevant field
• Proficiency in languages and tools referenced above.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and DevOps principles.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead by example and inspire team growth.
• Some domestic or internal travel may be required.

Preferred Skills:

• Agile certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Developer, SAFe Agilist, or similar).
• Experience with microservices architecture and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with automated testing and test-driven development (TDD).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC).

Soft Skills:

·       Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work. Follows tasks to their logical conclusion and makes sure that everything has been done to the right standard. Good attention to detail.

·       Team Work: Able to enthuse and maintain project interest. Comfortable working both individually and as part of a team. Prepared to challenge ideas within a group in a constructive way.

·       Leadership: Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges. Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization.

·       Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently to team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context. Excellent active listening skills.

·       Quantitative Management: Ability to determine process measures and track to determine process effectiveness and efficiency.

·       Problem Solving: Natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics. Ability to analyze problems and determine root cause, generating alternatives, evaluating and selecting alternatives and implementing solutions.

·       Results oriented: Able to drive things forward regardless of personal interest in the task.