Software Development Lead

About the role

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Software Development Lead based in United States. This role offers the opportunity to lead secure software development supporting critical federal mission requirements in a highly structured technology environment. You will oversee multidisciplinary teams spanning software engineering, architecture, testing, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, deployment, and sustainment. The position combines technical leadership with Agile delivery management, secure SDLC practices, automation, and continuous improvement. You will translate mission and cybersecurity requirements into prioritized development backlogs and reliable software increments. A strong focus will be placed on integrating security, automated testing, configuration management, documentation, and compliance throughout the software lifecycle. You will help manage technical risks, delivery dependencies, vulnerabilities, and quality metrics while ensuring development standards are consistently applied. This is a fully remote opportunity for an experienced engineering leader interested in contributing to a federal cybersecurity and software modernization mission.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary teams across software development, architecture, integration, testing, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, deployment, and sustainment.
• Establish and enforce standards for secure coding, software development, documentation, automated testing, configuration management, and releases.
• Lead Agile planning and execution, including backlog prioritization, sprint and release planning, dependency management, demonstrations, and delivery tracking.
• Coordinate developers, testers, cybersecurity professionals, architects, product owners, operations teams, and government stakeholders.
• Translate mission, functional, cybersecurity, and technical requirements into prioritized backlogs and executable software increments.
• Integrate cybersecurity findings into development priorities and drive timely vulnerability remediation.
• Review architecture decisions, code, automated test results, documentation, and technical deliverables for quality, security, and compliance.
• Monitor engineering and delivery metrics such as velocity, cycle time, test coverage, defects, vulnerabilities, build and deployment success, and remediation performance.
• Identify, manage, and resolve technical risks, dependencies, impediments, and delivery issues.
• Support CI/CD, source-code management, build automation, configuration management, release management, and automated deployment practices.
• Ensure automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing are incorporated into development workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Establish and maintain engineering artifacts including roadmaps, technical change management plans, architectural decision records, runbooks, README documentation, commit documentation, and release notes.
• Incorporate evolving development and security standards into delivery processes while meeting applicable service-level agreements and schedules.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 8+ years of software engineering or application development experience.
• 3+ years of experience leading software development teams or major engineering initiatives.
• Proven experience leading the design, development, integration, testing, deployment, operation, and maintenance of enterprise software systems.
• Demonstrated experience leading Agile teams, including backlog refinement, sprint and release planning, reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
• Strong experience implementing secure SDLC and SecDevOps/DevSecOps practices that integrate security throughout development and operations.
• Experience developing software within federal or controlled enterprise environments governed by formal development, architecture, access control, testing, documentation, configuration management, and release standards.
• Strong knowledge of Agile development, secure SDLC, DevSecOps, and NIST SP 800-218 Secure Software Development