Development Team Manager

Description:

What You'll do:

Groundswell is a premier technology integrator resolutely committed to solving the most complex challenges facing federal agencies today. Our name, Groundswell, represents our commitment to be an unstoppable, seismic change in government. Ours is a small company culture with big company reach and results. Are you ready to be audacious, be bold and drive change at a rapid pace? Join us, where we’ll make a greater impact together.

Who We are Looking For:

The Development Team Manager/Lead Java Developer will be a part of dynamic team providing support to a DOT client with Enterprise requirements. This role requires an experienced developer with direct experience leading and managing all activities associated with a development team. Significant experience developing Java web applications using modern JavaScript. Additional skills needed include the ability to lead and mentor other developers, strong organizational skills, and a desire to take ownership of projects. This is a lead role where the ideal candidate will be expected to be a team player, strong supporter of team agile principles and methodology, and understand how to balance contract requirements.

What You’ll Do:

• With support from Project Management, lead a remote development team of 7

• Must be a proactive self-starter

• Provide technical direction to the development team

• Organize, manage, and direct tasks supporting development and O&M requirements across 3 development environments (development, staging, production)

• Lead Code reviews

• Establish/ensure code quality for the team (automated QA/QC, developer pairing, etc.)

• Lead and support requirements and development planning

• Train and mentor the development team

• Define and enforce development standards

• Ensure contract and project requirements are met

• Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve issues related to the system and applications

• Proactive system monitoring to ensure performance standards are met with minimal interruption.

• Perform testing in support of development activities

• Perform installs and/or upgrades to the enterprise systems

• Support testing, business and system requirements, and system administration

• Perform release management supporting an Agile cadence

• Maintain IT system documentation

Required Qualifications:

• Ablility to obtain a Public Trust Clearance

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

• 6-10 years of relevant experience and proven success as a technical team leader

• Proven experience leading development teams in a distributed environment including managing the personnel schedules and accessing individual performance measures

• Strong skills using Agile methodologies and toolsets, Scrum, GitHub, Jira, etc.

• Significant experience with Java, JavaScript, SQL

• Familiar with Nodejs, React, Typescript, OracleDb, JSP, Tomcat

• Experience with Agile Software Development and DevOps practices

• Soft skills: Detail oriented, sound organizational skills, and excellent communication skills verbal and written

• Experience with the Atlassian Tool Suite (primarily Jira)

• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) Practices

• Exposure to C#, .NET, ExtJs, Esri ArcGIS, Python, AWS, CICD, Github

• Experience with automated software testing (unit, integration, system, etc.)

• Familiarity with database administration/management (PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc.)