Technical Lead

Job Description:  Softrams, LLC is looking for a full-time technical lead who will be part of a collaborative and agile team that supports and builds modern, usable, and responsive applications for mission-critical U.S. federal government enterprise IT solutions. This role is supervisory and requires excellent stakeholder management skills.  The technical lead is expected to have extensive knowledge ofimplementing full-stack solutions that meet customer needs and requirements. In this role, your insights from various customer engagements will influence future product releases. You will be required to present solutions and recommendations to audiences including customers, senior technical staff, business decision makers, executives, internal engineering staff, and program leadership.   To be successful in this challenging position, you will need exceptional cross-group collaboration, strategic thinking, and inter-personal skills. The candidate needs excellent communication and presentation skills and the ability to effectively interface with employees and customers at all levels.Strong candidateswill possessrobust software engineering and architectural knowledge for building AWS Cloud-based solutions. As a leader of a team, you will help others understand and prioritize customer requirements,while providing feedback for the implementation and improvement of product features. While we are looking for people who are not afraid to roll up their sleeves and lean in with the developers, this role does not have a heavy hand in code deployments.   This role is eligible for 100% remote work; however, the selected candidate must be able to perform work during standard east coast working hours of 9am ET to 5pm ET. 

Federal requirements for this role:

• Must be a citizen of the United States. 
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Federal Position of Trust clearance designation. 
• Must reside in and be able to perform work in the United States. 
• Must have lived in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years. 

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of progressive experience as developer building and architecting large-scale enterprise applications. 
• Experience implementing on modern technical stacks. Java, Docker, AWS, Node.js, AngularJS, React, Python, PostgreSQL (or Any other RDMS), and Kafka. 
• Experience supervising developers in an official management capacity.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills to effectively manage and guide a team of developers, ensuring successful project delivery, technical excellence, and team collaboration. 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and must be detailed oriented. Comfortable with conveying complex technical ideas through face-to-face interactions, technical specifications, slide decks, and UML drawings. 
• Expertise in deconstructing business needs, building organized solutions, and making product roadmaps and timelines for product implementation. 
• Expertise in transforming system and user needs into requirements documentation utilizing Jira and Confluence. 
• History of effective and professional communication with management, peers, and customers. 
• Hands on experience in unit testing, integration, and performance testing strategies. Can demonstrate proficiency with automated test tools utilizing frameworks like Chai, Jest, Jasmine, Karma, or Cypress. 
• Hands on experience in continuous delivery pipelines using tools like AWS CodeBuild, Cloudbees Jenkins, or similar. 
• Experience in an Agile environment, leading agile sprint teams and using agile collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.)  
• Bachelor’s Degree and at least 4 years leading all phases of the agile software development life cycle. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to produce System designs, architecture, process flows and Concept of Operations for large complex systems. Candidates must be capable of communicating these into a technical roadmap for delivery using agile and iterative approaches. 
• Demonstrated experience in managing and executing digital transformation projects, including the integration of advanced technologies, process automation, and system modernization to enhance organizational efficiency and performance. 
• One or more AWS certifications. 
• Experience with Big data technologies such as AWS EMR, Spark, Machine Learning (AWS Sage Maker) and one or more cloud environments (AWS, Google and Azure) 
• 6 or more years of experience building modular API micro-services using Java Spring, Express.JS, Nest.JS, or Fastly. 
• Proven experience in modernizing AngularJS websites by migrating to more current frameworks such as Angular (v15+) or React, ensuring improved performance, ma