Software Development Manager/IC

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor developers, QA engineers, automation engineers, and technical resources across the platform.
• Cookordination development activities across internal teams and vendor resources.
• Promote accountability, collaboration, technical quality, and operational awareness across the team.
• Support resource planning, prioritization, and sprint delivery activities.
• Work closely with the Scrum Master to support Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Oversee the design, development, testing, and deployment of enterprise web applications and workflow solutions.
• Support scalable, maintainable, and secure application architecture and coding standards.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure and Operations teams to troubleshoot production issues and support system stability.
• Coordinate release activities and ensure deployments align with operational and security requirements.
• Support root cause analysis and remediation activities for production incidents.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across application development and system integrations.
• Support API integrations, backend services, document processing workflows, and platform enhancements.
• Work with QA and automation teams to improve regression testing and deployment reliability.
• Support monitoring, logging, and application performance improvement initiatives.
• Ensure development activities align with federal security and compliance requirements.
• Promote continuous improvement across development processes, Agile delivery, documentation, and operational readiness.
• Track technical risks, dependencies, and delivery progress while communicating status to leadership.
• Support development standards, code reviews, testing practices, and release management activities.
• Ensure deliverables meet customer expectations, operational requirements, and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 10+ years of experience in application and/or system development.
• 5+ years’ experience managing technical teams including developers, architects, and test/QA engineers in an Agile environment.
• Expertise in programming languages such as Java, JavaScript frameworks, SQL, Rest APIs and CI/CD technologies.
• Demonstrated experience enforcing development quality standards, including code reviews, definition of done (DoD), and readiness gates prior to QA handoff.
• Strong experience leading Agile software development efforts in large enterprise or federal environments.
• Experience supporting mission-critical applications with high availability requirements.
• Strong understanding of SDLC processes, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, and enterprise application architecture.
• Experience working across Development, Infrastructure, Security, Operations, and PMO teams.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge incomplete or ambiguous requirements and drive clarity before development begins.
• Proven experience in U.S. federal government contracting environments, including familiarity with the full contract lifecycle (pre-award through closeout), and successful delivery of software solutions under government standards and oversight.
• Strong communication, leadership, troubleshooting, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to balance operational support, modernization initiatives, and Agile delivery priorities.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with experience presenting technical updates, risks, and solution strategies to leadership, customers, and cross-functional teams.