Lead Software Developer

Duties May Include:

• Provide technical stewardship to the Agile Development Teams (ADTs).
• Define, document, maintain, and communicate processes, practices, security, and configurations (PPS&C) to guide the program’s SW Development.
• Identify and facilitate configuration and availability of the DevSecOps infrastructure and development, integration, and test resources.
• Ensure SW Development environments and infrastructure meet development and test needs.
• Assist the ADT to meet sprint objectives by ensuring technical challenges and roadblocks are addressed and removed.
• Ensure inter-ADT communication and dependency coordination occurs tied to execution of Program Increment Epics and Stories and issue resolution.
• Ensure the quality of the software and solutions produced by the ADTs.
• Collaborate and assist O&S, Consumer Integration, Deployment, and Development teams in troubleshooting integration, test, and operational issues tied to the software baseline.
• Collaborate with other technical leads (on-program and external) to facilitate process improvements and technical innovation.
• Ensure baseline updates have been properly prepared for deployment.
• Communicate with technical leadership, ADT leads, and release train engineer impacts to the ADTs to fast track critical and high priority efforts.
• Identify to the Chief Software Engineer ADT skill deficiencies that are impacting successful execution of development efforts.
• Responsible for verifying code meets standards defined in the PPS&C.
• Communicate status to customer and program leadership of ongoing ADT SW development efforts.
• Recommend and coordinate key information related to the need and description of off-cycle releases.
• Investigate and determine resolution of development process/execution related issues.
• Assist program leadership in evaluation of technical personnel and determining ADT composition.
• Plan, coordinate, and ensure end of Sprint Demo occurs.
• Plan, coordinate, and ensure ADT's support end of PI Demo for customer.
• Maintain documentation of the program’s software baseline.

Required:

• Candidate must have BS degree with 12 years of professional experience; 10 years with Masters.
• 4-5 years of experience working in an Agile software development environment as a technical contributor.
• Must have at least a Top Secret clearance and eligible for SCI.
• Experience serving as a technical lead with a large software development team (15-20 developers) comprised of smaller, product-focused teams.
• Experience briefing customers and stakeholders.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills, to include presentation of technical material to non-technical audiences.
• Thorough understanding of the Agile software development process (SAFe Agile preferred) and its key processes, milestones, and roles.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Java, JavaScript, Python, or other modern programming languages desired.
• Experience with deploying, configuring, administering, and troubleshooting software (both custom and COTS/FOSS) in a Linux environment.
• Experience working in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing environment; similar for MS Azure is desired.
• Experience integrating custom code with 3rd party software products/platforms (for example, development of custom plugins for a commercial or open-source product).
• Experience with version control systems such as git or Subversion.
• Understanding of DevSecOps concepts/tools, and how they would apply in practice.
• U.S. citizenship is required.

Desired:

• Understanding of SSL/TLS and PKI concepts.
• Familiarity with one or more common identity and access management protocols/standards, just as OAuth, SAML, LDAP, SCIM, or OIDC.
• Prior knowledge of (or experience with) the Oracle Identity and Access Management (IAM) suite (including OAM, OUD, and OHS), API Gateways, Apache web servers and/or proxy servers, and application servers is a major plus.
• Direct experience with multiple of the following and a desire to learn the others:
• Database setup and integration, both relational and NoSQL (Oracle DB, MySQL, CouchDB).
• DevOps automation tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Source control and Agile development tools (Git, Maven, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence).
• Analytics and search engines (Elasticsearch, Splunk, Apache Solr).
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certification (e.g. Certified SAFe Agilist) or Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
• An active cybersecurity, cloud, and/or network product certification (e.g. CISSP, AWS).
• Mobile development.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $160,000.00 per year

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Software Development: 10 years (Preferred)
• OAuth, SAML, LDAP, SCIM: 5 years (Required)
• API Gateways: 5 years (Required)
• Apache web servers: 5 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• Scaled Agile Framework Certification (Required)
• Certified Scrum Master (Required)

Security clearance:

• Top Secret (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Chantilly, VA (Required)

Work Location: In person