Technical Lead

Job Title:            Technical Lead
Location:            Sterling, Virginia
Salary:                 DOE Full Benefits
Clearance:             Active DHS Suitability (or ability to obtain)

Company Overview 
TechSur Solutions is a digital services company with a mission to enable digital transformation for our customers, improving quality and efficiency. Based in the DC metropolitan area, TechSur specializes in advanced cloud services, IT modernization, Agile development, and data analytics. Since our formation in August 2016, we have supported multiple impactful and exciting government programs. 

Job Responsibilities 
•    Participate in the design of software tools and subsystems to support reuse and domain analysis. 
•    Assist Applications Engineer and Applications Programmer to interpret software requirements and design specifications to code and integrate and test software components. 
•    Leading and mentoring a team of software engineers, ensuring high performance and career growth. 
•    Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define technical strategies and solutions aligned with project goals. 
•    Architecting, developing, and enhancing enterprise microservice applications and modernizing legacy systems. 
•    Ability to solve production problems using the various debugging tools in order to research, investigate and recreate the issue in order to fix. 
•    Ensuring adherence to software development best practices, including code quality, security, and performance optimization.
•    Driving automation and DevOps best practices by maintaining CI/CD pipelines and leveraging modern tools and frameworks. 
•    Conducting code reviews, application and security code scans, and supporting remediation efforts. 
•    Championing Agile principles by participating in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives. 
•    Creating comprehensive technical documentation and providing input for project proposals and requirements analysis. 
•    Staying abreast of emerging technologies and driving innovation within the team and organization. 
•    Excellent analytical, decision making and communication skills to connect with business and stakeholders. 
•    Identify and document risks and plan to mitigate them. 
•    Conflict resolution, negotiation, critical thinking and handling disagreements in the team. 

Required Skills/Qualifications 
•    8 years of experience in software development using frameworks and programming languages such as Angular 2 , JavaScript, jQuery, Node.js, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET, C#, and .Net Framework. 
•    5 years of experience with relational databases, including SQL Server and T-SQL Programming. 
•    Demonstrated expertise in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), including RESTful services and Web API frameworks. 
•    Strong experience with modern testing frameworks (e.g., XUnit, NUnit, Selenium) and DevOps practices, including Git-based workflows. 
•    Proven track record of leading technical teams and delivering complex projects in Agile Scrum environments. 
•    Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to learn quickly and adapt to new challenges. 
•    Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related discipline (an advanced degree may substitute for 3 years of experience). 

Desired Skills/Qualifications 
•    Hands-on experience with tools and frameworks such as TFS, Octopus Deploy, and SonarQube. 
•    Knowledge of accessibility and Section 508 compliance design principles. 
•    Expertise in building responsive web applications and leveraging modern UI/UX design patterns. 
•    Familiarity with dependency injection frameworks, Dapper, NuGet package management, and logging libraries (e.g., log4net, NLog). 
•    Java 8 features (lambdas, streams, modules, Optional API, etc.) and newer versions (Java 11/17/21). 
•    Experience implementing patterns like Singleton, Factory, Builder, Observer, and MVC in Java. 
•    Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring Cloud). 
•    Hibernate/JPA for ORM and database interactions. 
•    Unit/integration testing with JUnit, TestNG, Mockito, or PowerMock. 
•    Familiarity with BDD frameworks like Cucumber 
•    SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases. 
•    Query optimization and caching strategies (Redis, Ehcache). 
•    Kafka, RabbitMQ, or ActiveMQ for asynchronous communication 
•    CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions). 
•    Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud deployment. 
•    Implementing authentication/authorization (OAuth2, JWT, Spring Security). 
•    Static analysis tools (SonarQube, PMD, Checkstyle). 
•    Performance monitoring tools.