Senior Technical Lead

Responsibilities

Peraton has an immediate need for a Senior Technical Lead that holds an active/current DoD Secret clearance. This is a remote position.

What you'll do:

• Apply technical expertise to lead agile teams in working on unusually complex development challenges and provide product solutions in accordance with Agile Methodologies.
• Establish the basic structure of the system, defines essential core design features and elements that provide the framework.
• Incorporate engineering strategies for introducing new technology into the customer's infrastructure related to its business processes of collection, analysis, production, and dissemination.
• Perform feasibility analysis on potential future projects to management, provide cost-benefit analyses to determine whether requirements are best met by manual, software, or hardware functions; making maximum use of commercial off-the-shelf or already developed components.
• Apply knowledge of enterprise IT or engineering needs to design improved processes, generate valid requirements, and ensures that these are consistent with the customer's enterprise technical architecture.
• Design interfaces and brings system elements together, address problems of systems integration, compatibility, and multiple platforms.
• Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
• Customer liaison and support for development activities and to understand and shape requirements, assist the Govt. Product Owners in meeting their duties and responsibilities and managing the Product Backlog.
• Work with the customer and across Scrum Teams to prioritize features, user stories, and identifying team velocity.
• Work with Product Owners to identify priorities, participate in Sprint Reviews, Backlog Refinement, and lead team daily stand-up meetings.
• Work collaboratively among cross-functional teams and multiple vendors to execute timely releases of code.
• Work with Scrum Master to support development and/or sustainment of a software environment that covers the entire Software Development Lifecycle using current methodologies to include Continuous Deployment, Agile, and Development Operations (DevOps).
• Consults with project teams and end users to identify application requirements.
• Assists in the evaluation and recommendation of application software packages, application integration and testing tools. Resolves problems with software and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements.
• Instructs, assigns, directs, and checks the work of others on the development team.
• Participates in development of software user manuals and technical reports.
• Provide support to the Enterprise Architecture team, the Release Train Engineer (RTE), and Senior Leadership. Coordinate intra-team, external-team, cross-ART, and cross-functional cooperation to facilitate synergy and success across the Program.
• Attend Program-Level Ceremonies and Reviews on behalf of the Scrum Team and brief Team status during Quarterly Program Increment Planning sessions.
• Create and update user stories in Jira/Confluence.
• Submit weekly and monthly status reports and deliverables.
• Develop and deliver working level and senior leadership briefs.
• Understanding of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) process, Kanban Framework, and Waterfall methodologies and how to utilize these within daily activities.
• Produce high-quality papers, presentations, recommendations, and findings for senior government Intelligence and operations officials.

Qualifications

What you'll need:

• Requires 14 years expeirence with AS/AA degree or 12 years with BS/BA or 10 years with MS/MA or 7 years with a PhD.
• Knowledge of IT standards, agile methodologies, system development life cycle and project management frameworks
• Familiarity with ticketing system, such as ServiceNow.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to foster collaborative relationships with customers, teaming partners and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to resolve customer issues very quickly and accurately.
• Experience with software development (Java React, Go preferred) and full-stack development
• Experience working with data and databases in both structured and unstructured formats.
• Experience architecting and implementing storage solutions appropriate for the complex enterprise needs
• CI/CD experience preferred.
• Hands-on experience in AWS (S3, EC2, ECS, etc), Certified AWS Solutions Architect preferred
• Experience in some or all of the following tools: GitLab, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, Jenkins, Zephyr, Docker, PostgreSQL
• Experience in modern web development including Javascript UI Libraries such