User Interface Subject Matter Expert (SME) / UI Team Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the UI team lead and provide technical leadership for user interface design, development, integration, and support activities.
• Lead the development and maintenance of web applications using ASP.NET C# MVC and ASP.NET Core technologies.
• Design, build, and support responsive, scalable, and user-friendly interfaces using modern web development frameworks and tools.
• Provide expertise in decoupled application development leveraging message queuing technologies to support scalable and resilient system architectures.
• Support application and enterprise search capabilities, including implementation, tuning, and integration of search solutions.
• Provide technical guidance for ElasticSearch and/or AWS OpenSearch implementations, including configuration management of high-availability cloud OpenSearch clusters.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, infrastructure teams, and stakeholders to ensure UI solutions integrate effectively with backend services, search platforms, and enterprise systems.
• Participate in Agile development activities, including sprint planning, design reviews, code reviews, testing, and release planning.
• Recommend improvements to UI architecture, application performance, usability, maintainability, and development processes.
• Ensure development activities follow established coding standards, security requirements, and best practices.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of software/web development experience.
• 5+ years of experience with Agile development methodologies.
• 5+ years of ASP.NET C# MVC-based web development experience using Visual Studio 2019 or higher.
• 5+ years of experience with Application Search or Enterprise Search technologies.
• Experience with ElasticSearch; AWS OpenSearch experience is a plus.
• Experience in configuration management of a cloud-based high-availability OpenSearch cluster with 10 or more nodes.
• 5+ years of experience in decoupled application development leveraging message queuing.
• 2+ years of experience with React.js or AngularJS.
• 1+ year of experience with ASP.NET Core using Visual Studio 2019.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the UI team in the delivery of modern web applications and interface solutions.
• Provide direction on front-end architecture, coding practices, integration strategies, and development standards.
• Cookordinate UI development efforts with search, middleware, backend, and infrastructure teams to ensure successful end-to-end delivery.

Clearance Requirement

Active Secret clearance required.

Work Location

Work will be performed at DEA offices in Merrifield, VA; DEA Headquarters in Arlington, VA; and other offices deemed appropriate by the Government.