Sr. Lead Engineer, PowerFAIDS

College Board – Technology – PowerFAIDS 

Location: This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office) 

Type: This is a fully remote role. 

About the Team  

The PowerFAIDS team at College Board is a close-knit, dedicated group of professionals with a passion for higher education. The team is committed to providing cutting-edge technology solutions and customer support to facilitate the awarding of over $7 billion in financial aid each year. We pride ourselves on being innovative in our industry by continuously improving our products and services. This team is currently made up of 20+ engineers, a mix of full-time staff and contractors working on delivering solutions for Financial Aid Management. 

About the Opportunity   

You will play a pivotal role in modernizing PowerFAIDS, the financial aid platform trusted by colleges and universities across the country, by helping rebuild its long-standing Windows desktop application into a modern, accessible web experience. As a Senior Lead Engineer, you will be the technical bridge between our Product Owners, UX designers, and engineering teams, translating complex financial aid business requirements into clean, well-scoped implementations that two delivery teams can build with confidence. You’ll write production ASP.NET MVC code yourself, raise the engineering quality bar across both teams, and champion AI-assisted development practices to accelerate the rebuild toward our 2027 milestone of ~100 web views in production. This is a high-visibility, multi-year modernization effort where your influence will shape the codebase, the team, and ultimately the daily work of financial aid administrators nationwide. 

In this role, you will: 

Design & Implementation (50%) 

• Build ASP.NET MVC 5 views end-to-end (ViewModel, Service, Adapter, Controller, and Razor views with DevExpress MVC controls) following the established PowerFAIDS Web architecture that reuses the shared business and data-access layers 
• Maintain the highest engineering standards by partnering with Product Owners, UX designers, and architecture stakeholders to translate complex financial aid requirements into clean, well-scoped implementations 
• Decompose complex product capabilities into specific, verifiable functional changes that two delivery teams (Nova and Orion) can execute with confidence 
• Leverage AI-assisted development (GitHub Copilot today, Claude Code as it becomes available) to accelerate the team toward delivering ~100 web views by end of 2027, while maintaining Agile and CI/CD best practices 

Team Operations & Success (25%) 

• Participate in and help lead Agile SCRUM ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily Stand-ups, Demos) across the Nova and Orion delivery teams 
• Lead peer code reviews and raise the overall engineering quality bar across both delivery teams 
• Assist in the resolution of production issues across PowerFAIDS Web and the shared business / data-access layers 
• Adhere to development standards and security policies, partnering with our ISO partner on PowerFAIDS Web security requirements 
• Adopt continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices for rapidly implementing, testing, and delivering high-quality code 
• Continuously grow as a poly-skilled engineer comfortable across the full ASP.NET MVC stack, including DevExpress UI controls, jQuery, and the shared .NET business layer 

Software Solutioning & Design (25%) 

• Develop and maintain deep understanding of the financial aid domain and PowerFAIDS’ specific business processes (Need Analysis, Dynamic Redetermination, Audit Trail, etc.) 
• Work closely with Product Owners, UX designers, and senior architects to evaluate feature requests, provide level-of-effort estimates, and contribute to roadmap and sprint planning 
• Conduct and lead design reviews; partner with internal senior architects for architectural validation on the program’s harder problems (e.g., reporting modernization, file-system interactions, multi-threading in a web context) 

About you, you have: 

• 10+ years of production-level software development experience with deep expertise in C# / ASP.NET MVC and the .NET Framework (4.x); experience modernizing legacy Windows/desktop applications to web platforms is a strong plus 
• Proven ability to partner with non-technical stakeholders including Product Owners, UX designers, business and analysts to translate complex domain requirements into well-scoped, dev-ready stories 
• Strong problem-solving skills with hands-on experience navigating layered architectures (MVC,