Overview

Soft Tech Consulting is seeking a highly motivated, innovative individual to fill the role of a Senior Software Developer. The designated candidate will join a collaborative team environment, providing guidance and expertise necessary toward the successful delivery of the project deliverables and provide effective communication to all levels of staff for reporting status/progress.

MUST BE US CITIZEN

MUST BE ABLE TO OBTAIN PUBLIC TRUST

Responsibilities

• Serve as Senior Software Developer for one of the project’s implementation teams.
• Serve as Technical point of contact for one of the project implementation team and field technical feasibility questions on behalf with federal government clients all through the development and modernization life cycle.
• Provide support to Solutions Architect in researching and presenting technical options and their pros/cons in Enterprise Architecture Meetings for implementing functional requirements within the context of the client’s technical infrastructure.
• Take ownership of a small development team’s deliverables all the way from design, architecture, development, infrastructure setup, testing, and production deployment.
• Define development standards for the assigned development team, and propose process refinements and roles definitions to streamline the development team’s deliverables.
• Actively Participate in the candidate interview and selection process, and mentor and motivate new team members to help assimilate them with the team’s development process. 
• Proactively articulate any risks, dependencies and mitigation strategies to the project management based on the development team’s deliverables status.
• Analyze and focus on technology-driven opportunity requirements and generate capture artifacts (including supporting solutions and basis of estimate development) for development/proposal responses
• Lead a small team for program surge requirements associated with technology needs.
• Provide support to Solutions Architect in technical proposal development across the capture lifecycle from solution development, reviews, lessons learned, etc. 
• Maintain an understanding of offerings across the technical marketplace with specific emphasis on innovative development tools, techniques, and automation solutions/ development tools, techniques, and vendor capabilities/relationships.
• Maintain working knowledge of best practices in service delivery and capability enhancements associated with data analytics, DevSecOps and agile development, and system integration.
• Develop technical diagrams and presentation materials to support the Project’s Architectural deliverables.
• Lead/Facilitate technical strategy and brainstorming sessions.
• Review and deliver presentations of technical approaches on implementation strategies along with Solutions Architect in formal Architectural review board meetings.
• Development Experience in working with Typescript/JavaScript-based UI frameworks like Angular/React.
• Development Experience in Java 8 environment involving Full Stack development.
• Development Experience in developing Java-based REST APIs involving backend frameworks like Spring boot, Hibernate, JPA.
• Development Experience in writing test cases using JUnit (Java) and serenity/cucumber/cypress (for UI).
• GIS Development experience will be a plus
• AWS and Linux Experience will be a plus.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD tools like Bamboo/Jenkins will be a plus.
• Provides design, coding, testing, and validating programs that solve engineering-related problems
• Develops simple to complex optimized data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories
• Reviews and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results
• Write quality code with a goal of 0 defects and 100% code coverage.
• Execute automated testing on both front-end and back-end systems
• Utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment
• Works closely with other engineers, systems analysts, and system end-users for the development of appropriate system architectures and implementation of system designs
• Analyzes user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements
• Designs and codes new software or modifies existing software to add new features; debugs existing software and corrects defects
• Integrates existing software into new or modifies systems or operating environments
• Develops simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories
• Makes recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards
• Develops the architecture, detailed system design, coding, integration, testing, and configuration management schemes for software systems
• Perform a variety of complicated tasks with a wide degree of creativity and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Contribute to an atmosphere of cross-functional teamwork

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering discipline.
• 10-14 years of work experience supporting and/or developing large-scale solutions for Federal customers.
• 5-8 years of recent experience & knowledge with the design, development, and technical thought leadership of Federal IT/Government Requests for Proposals.
• 10-14 years of work experience supporting and/or developing large-scale solutions
• Knowledge of, and experience with, technology-based development methodologies/ techniques especially focused on the US Federal Government marketplace with demonstrated capability delivering large-scale solutions
• Direct working experience capturing and executing development efforts (and orchestrating multiple development teams) for enterprise scale environments.
• DevSecOps automation and IA expertise
• Microsoft Office Tools (2013/2016): Expert skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• This position requires the ability to perform the below essential functions:
• Sitting for long periods
• Ambulate throughout an office
• Ambulate between several buildings

• Must have strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Must be able to work independently, with little to no oversight.

About Us

Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is a woman and minority-owned business headquartered in Chantilly, VA. With contracts in both the public and private sectors in the DC metro area and across the country, Soft Tech is an organization made up of highly successful and talented Information Technology professionals offering enterprise class solutions for any size organization at great value. Soft Tech’s mission is to help government organizations design, implement, and maintain mission critical Information Technology solutions. By focusing jointly on our employees and our customers, we are able to achieve our mission by providing each and every one of our customers with continuous quality customer support.Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.