Lead Developer

Job Description: Our MPJV, CVTEK, is seeking a Lead Developer to direct the DevSecOps lifecycle and Agile sprint execution for a highly visible government business system. This is a hands-on leadership role that involves maintaining, troubleshooting, and modernizing legacy codebases while refactoring applications to facilitate data integration with new enterprise platforms. This position is contingent upon contract award.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead an Agile/Scrum development team utilizing required technology stacks including ColdFusion, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Perform conceptual design, detailed design, code, and unit testing of critical IT programs, writing optimized SQL statements to ensure relational database efficiency.
• Implement Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies, maintaining traceability from user stories to automated unit, integration, functional, and security testing phases.
• Drive the 10-phase DevSecOps lifecycle (Plan, Develop, Build, Test, Release, Deliver, Deploy, Operate, Monitor, Feedback) to push high-quality product releases.
• Manage source code integrity and prepare formal CCB release packages, including rollback plans and Fortify security scans.
• Ensure application integration with agency SSO/PKI authentication mechanisms, remediating critical and high-security findings prior to code submission.
• Provide Tier III Help Desk support, diagnosing and resolving escalated software application failures within strict response SLAs, and creating incident resolution scripts.
• Refactor applications to facilitate data integration and module decommissioning.
• Contribute to overarching project management and sustainment tasks, including providing Agile development metrics for Monthly Status Reports, generating technical content for end-user training, and updating the System Administration Guide (SAG).