4 days ago
Colorado Springs, CO, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead software design, development, and testing for two to four mission-critical projects.
- Define software requirements, architecture, deliverables, and project-level technical direction.
- Guide development teams building cloud-native applications, web front ends, scalable back ends, secure pipelines, and event-driven solutions.
- Serve as a technical escalation point through code reviews, issue resolution, and adherence to project goals.
- Establish and standardize software development practices, tools, frameworks, and workflows across projects.
- Implement secure coding, vulnerability scanning, continuous testing, and deployment practices.
- Write key code, resolve complex technical challenges, and create architectural proofs of concept as needed.
- Collaborate with program leadership, technical leads, subject matter experts, stakeholders, and engineers across disciplines.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 18 or more years of software development experience; alternatively, a master’s degree with 16 or more years or a PhD with 15 or more years.
- At least 7 years of back-end and/or front-end development experience.
- Expertise in cloud-native architecture and AWS, Azure, DAF Cloudworks, and GCP.
- Proficiency with Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm.
- Experience building GraphQL APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures using Kafka and RabbitMQ.
- Experience automating pipelines with testing, security scanning, and deployment workflows.
- Knowledge of JMeter, Selenium, and Jest for unit and end-to-end testing.
- At least 3 years leading software development teams across two to four projects or prototypes simultaneously.
- At least 3 years working with government, defense, and intelligence project requirements and processes.
- Experience establishing consistent standards and quality practices with program leadership, technical leads, and subject matter experts.
- Strong interpersonal, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
- Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect are preferred.
Benefits
- Onsite position in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- Opportunity to work on mission-critical defense, space, intelligence, and civilian technology programs.
- Equal Opportunity Employer.
Tech Stack
AngularApache JMeterApache KafkaAWSAzureC#DockerGitGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLHelmJavaJenkinsJestKubernetesPythonRabbitMQReactSeleniumTerraformVue.js
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About SAIC
SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) is a government technology integrator delivering systems engineering, enterprise IT, secure cloud, cybersecurity, C5ISR, and data analytics for U.S. defense, space, intelligence, and civilian agencies. It builds and sustains mission IT and digital engineering solutions under multi-year federal contracts and task orders. Founded in 1969, SAIC is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, and is a public company traded on the NYSE under the ticker SAIC.