Development Lead

Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent, excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit us at www.unissant.com.

We are seeking a Development Lead to join our team and support our clients in the Washington DC-Baltimore area. The ideal candidate will be responsible for providing design recommendations based on long-term IT organization strategy and viewed both internally and externally as a technical expert and critical technical resource across multiple disciplines.

• This position is contingent upon contract award.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Drive continuous improvement in development processes
• Develops enterprise level application and custom integration solutions including major enhancements and interfaces, functions, and features
• Uses a variety of platforms to provide automated systems applications to customers.
• Provides expertise regarding the integration of applications across the business
• Determines specifications, then plans, designs, and develops the most complex and business critical software solutions, utilizing appropriate software engineering processes either individually or in concert with a project team.
• Assist in the most difficult support problems
• Develops programming and development standards and procedures as well as programming architectures for code reuse
• Researches and maintains knowledge in emerging technologies and possible application to the business
• Oversee design, development, testing, and deployment activities
• Support Agile sprint execution and backlog management
• Collaborate with architecture and DevOps teams
• Ensure seamless system integrations and API functionality

Work Experience And Job Skills

• Minimum 10 years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years in a technical leadership role
• Demonstrated experience leading development teams supporting enterprise-scale, high-availability applications
• Strong experience with modern programming languages and frameworks (e.g., Java, .NET, Spring Boot, RESTful services)
• Proven experience designing and developing API-driven and microservices-based applications
• Demonstrated experience integrating with external systems and data sources (APIs, batch processing, data exchanges)
• Experience implementing secure coding practices and compliance with federal security standards
• Demonstrated experience supporting Agile development environments (Scrum or SAFe)
• Experience managing code quality, peer reviews, and automated testing practices
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps collaboration models
• Experience supporting federal healthcare or CMS systems strongly preferred
• Enthusiastic, proactive, positive attitude and high integrity
• Excellent organizational skills, strong attention to detail and ability to effectively manage architectures supporting multiple users
• Strong desire to mentor, coach team members while providing oversight for all aspects of relevant programs
• Ability to think and act strategically and proactively approach projects and issues.
• Able to work under pressure and to be flexible with changing priorities
• Able to find innovative ways to solve problems
• A genuine interest in looking for opportunities to add value and grow your area of responsibility

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or other related discipline required.

Certificates, Licenses And Registrations

• Any related technical certifications are desired.

Communication Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work with all levels of the organization on architecture decisions, risks, and recommendations.
• Ability to convey technical information to non-technical individuals.
• Demonstrated experience communicating effectively across internal and external organizations.

Travel

• This position is primarily remote with occasional on-site meetings in the Washington DC - Baltimore Area

Environmental Requirements

• Mainly sedentary; in an office environment.
• May be required to lift to ten (10) pounds.
• Flexible in working extended hours.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Unissant management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary. In addition, where applicable and available, reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.

Please note: Candidate(s) will be required to go through pre-employment screening.

Unissant, Inc. is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer! (EOE; M/F/Disability/Vets).

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