Application Suite Technical Lead

Company: Leidos
Location: Washington
Posted on: November 1, 2024

Job Description:

DescriptionLooking for an opportunity to make an impact?The Leidos National Security Sector is seeking an experienced Application Suite Technical Lead in a key role to lead a team of applications developers, designers and task leads for a critical Intelligence Community customer. This crucial role involves leading a team to design and develop a new, comprehensive microservice-based application suite for the customer. The suite of applications will be an integrated end-to-end system, providing analytic production planning, authoring, analytic review workflow, and product storage. The ideal candidate is technically proficient across both front-end and back-end development and is keen on fostering collaboration between teams to achieve integrated and innovative solutions. Work with a diverse team of technical staff to modernize and expand customer's capabilities to the Defense Intelligence Enterprise. This key personnel role demands leadership and a hands-on approach to researching, developing, deploying, and achieving government authority to operate (ATO) a platform that is critical to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the warfighter. This opportunity is contingent upon contract award.What you'll be doing:

• Lead and mentor a team of application developers, designers and task leaders conducting technical and industrial research to identify advantageous approaches to replace customer's current applications.
• Collaborate with government leads and stakeholders, as well as other contract technical leads, to define project requirements, goals, and timelines.
• Ensure the developed capabilities are compatible with the network operating environment and architecture and implement customer-directed security measures.
• Ensure the system prioritizes availability, reliability, and scalability, as the system is expanded to a larger customer base.
• Develop responsive and intuitive user interfaces employing modern front-end technologies such as JavaScript, JavaScript frameworks, HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Extensible Markup Language (XML), and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).
• Use back-end technologies such as Oracle, Postgres, Mongo Database, Redis, ElasticSearch, Solr, Structured Query Language (SQL), Node.js with Typescript, and Server-Side Languages (Java, etc.) to develop a secure, efficient, and reliable architecture.
• Submit, process, and track visualizations, graphics, and other multimedia content for online publications of HTML and PDF products.
• Ensure system compatibility with all integrated dissemination applications.
• Implement best practices for software development, including Agile methodologies, code reviews, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes.
• Monitor project progress, address any technical challenges, adjust priorities as needed to meet milestones, and provide regular updates to government and contract program managers.What does Leidos need from me?
  • Must have an active Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph.
  • BS in software engineering, computer science, information technology, or related field or equivalent experience with 10 plus years in software development, technology management, software engineering or a related field; or eight plus years of experience with master's degree.
  • Experience with front-end technologies/frameworks (e.g, Angular, React), to include HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Object Notation.
  • Experience with backend development using Node.js, or equivalent technologies.
  • Experience with database design and development (e.g., SQL, NoSQL), and familiarity with search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, Solr).
  • Experience with content tracking, document state, and approval workflows at scale.
  • Experience overseeing application development and presenting overview briefings and updates to government leads, partners, and customers; reporting on progress at performance improvement meetings; and identifying opportunities for increase effectiveness, efficiency, scale, and impact.
  • Experience in the identification and mitigation of any issues or trends that pose a risk to project priorities.Favorable if you have:
    • Experience managing a software development team through a government ATO process.
    • Experience developing unclassified software for configuration in a classified environment.
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