Job Description:

• Implements the engineering best practices required to produce and deploy high-quality products.
• Ensures engineering alignment with functional and technical requirements.
• Handles the design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of products as assigned, ensuring that they are consistent with the company's architectural roadmap, product development strategy, and quality standards.
• Develops project plans with estimates and ensures development stays organized and adheres to the plan.
• Leads stakeholder and product owner meetings to define software requirements and create highly complex systems. Acts as a mentor to junior engineers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• 25% Lead the strategic direction of the design, development, and implementation of multiple applications.
• Performs and leads the detailed technical design, debugging, coding, code review, and testing of new applications as well as enhancements of existing applications.
• Compile, assess, and report data results from software testing and analysis.
• Experience building cloud-ready applications.
• Design and implement software applications from both a code point of view and a deployment point of view.
• Demonstrated experience with front-end and back-end programming and integration frameworks and tools.
• Estimate the effort required to develop, test, and deploy software applications.
• 25% Learn and fully understand business domains and functions.
• Participates in collaborative meetings with internal and external stakeholders to coordinate both short and long-term activities between business areas.
• Ensures that product engineering remains consistent with the company’s architectural roadmap and product development strategy while improving the performance of existing software.
• Articulate the trade-offs, benefits, and risks of proposed architecture and design solutions.
• 25% Researches, analyzes, and implements best-practice engineering methodologies and processes for products.
• Provide technical guidance to development teams and oversee the technical aspects of the project.
• Provide necessary guidance to the teams related to quality engineering (Test Driven Development, Behavior Development, Test automation, performance testing, building quality from the beginning, and test data management).
• Develop and implement applications on proposed architecture, overseeing issues such as migration.
• Extend open-source libraries and systems as necessary to meet the needs of the team.
• Play a crucial role in product scoping and roadmap/architecture discussions.
• Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best.
• 25% Mentors more junior and senior engineers in-person or via code reviews and assists in problem-solving.
• Provide mentorship, administrative oversight, evaluations, and personal development of junior staff.
• Assist the application/solution architect in the architectural vision and design process.
• Assist and triage production issues and propose fixes.

Qualifications

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Education Level: Bachelor's Degree.

Education Details:

• Information Technology or Computer Science

Experience:

• 10 years' Experience in the software development life cycle (SDLC) and ensures adherence to quality and delivery management systems.
• In Lieu of Education
• In lieu of a bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Works closely with Architects, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Value Stream Managers to provide insight into delivering business value and meeting objectives.
• Decomposes functional and technical requirements into project activities and tasks and provides conceptual design, prototype, and test cycles appropriate to a chosen technical solution.
• Identifies technical risks and develops mitigation strategies; introduces and recommends industry best practices and standards for the project.
• Evaluates and assists in the selection and procurement of hardware and software technologies and serves as a mentor for junior developers.
• Works with stakeholders as well as technical and analytical counterparts to define constraints and develop requirements and concept of operations documentation.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies (e.g. Azure, AWS)
• Knowledge of database technologies (e.g. cloud, SQL, Oracle, Mongo DB, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Fundamental knowledge of software engineers’ best practices, agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of test-first practices including Test-Driven Development (TDD) for unit tests and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) for automated acceptance tests
• Strong experience with Deployment/Continuous Integration/ Continuous Testing/ Continuous Delivery processes and tools and have expertise in CI/CD tools and framework
• Experience with deploying a global application including deployment and configuration management
• Ensure code quality standards, deployment methodologies, and practices.
• Knowledge of code deployment architecture and methodology.
• Reviewing the work of other developers and providing feedback.
• Ability to communicate technical requirements to all levels of expertise.
• Proficient in establishing and maintaining good working relationships.
• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs).
• Works closely with Architects, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Value Stream Managers to provide insight into delivering business value and meeting objectives., Expert
• Decomposes functional and technical requirements into project activities and tasks and provides conceptual design, prototype, and test cycles appropriate to a chosen technical solution., Expert
• Identifies technical risks and develops mitigation strategies; introduces and recommends industry best practices and standards for the project., Expert
• Evaluates and assists in the selection and procurement of hardware and software technologies and serves as a mentor for junior developers., Expert
• Works with stakeholders as well as technical and analytical counterparts to define constraints and develop requirements and concept of operations documentation., Expert
• Knowledge of cloud technologies (e.g. Azure, AWS), Advanced
• Knowledge of database technologies (e.g. cloud, SQL, Oracle, Mongo DB, PostgreSQL, etc.), Advanced
• Fundamental knowledge of software engineers’ best practices, agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, Advanced
• Knowledge of test-first practices including Test-Driven Development (TDD) for unit tests and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) for automated acceptance tests, Expert
• Strong experience with Deployment/Continuous Integration/ Continuous Testing/ Continuous Delivery processes and tools and have expertise in CI/CD tools and framework, Expert
• Experience with deploying a global application including deployment and configuration management, Expert
• Ensure code quality standards, deployment methodologies and practices, Expert
• Knowledge of code deployment architecture and methodology, Expert
• Reviewing the work of other developers and providing feedback, Expert
• Ability to communicate technical requirements to all levels of expertise., Expert
• Proficient in establishing and maintaining good working relationships., Expert.
• The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes them ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.
• Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods.
• Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence.
• Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.