Software Team Manager

Public Trust Eligibility Required

About Aretum

Aretum is a mission-driven organization committed to delivering innovative technology-enabled solutions to our customers across defense civilian and homeland security sectors. Our teams work at the intersection of strategy technology and transformation helping agencies solve their most critical challenges. We believe in investing in our people and creating a culture where collaboration inclusion and professional growth are at the forefront.

Job Summary
Aretum is seeking a Software Team Manager to join our team supporting a large-scale federal technology modernization program. As a Software Team Manager you will be embedded full time within a single Agile scrum team alongside the teams Scrum Master serving as the technical lead for the teams developers frontend engineers and testers. You will work directly with the teams federal Product Owner and Business Analysts to translate functional requirements into well-formed technical work lead day-to-day technical decisions within the teams scope drive code quality and Definition of Done across the team and coordinate with the programs Solutions Architect on architecture-level questions. You will partner with the Scrum Master on detailed roadmap planning resource allocation and milestone reprioritization. You will support change management coordination through the federal change advisory process andparticipatein security controls review for the components your team owns. This is a hands-on technical leadership role not a pure management role; you will spend time in code indesign discussions inpeer reviewsand inproduction support alongside the team you lead.

Due to the nature of our work as a federal consulting organization employees may be expected to handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and must adhere to applicable safeguarding and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for a single Agile scrum team providing day-to-day technical direction to the teams developers frontend engineers and testers

• Provide technical knowledge and analysis of the teams applications and operational environment including high-level functional systems analysis design integration and implementation advice on moderately complex problems

• Translate functional requirements and design specifications received from the federal Product Owner and Business Analysts into well-formed technical work ensuring stories are technically sound before they enter sprint commitment

• Make day-to-day architectural decisions within the teams scope escalating to the Solutions Architect and Cloud Architect for cross-team or program-wide architectural questions

• Drive code quality on the team byestablishingand enforcing peer code review discipline ensuring no merge request is approved without review by a peer developer

• Own the teams Definition of Done ensuring it covers code review testing security scans accessibility validation and documentation and ensuring the team consistently meets it

• Maintain test code coverage standards on the teams codebase (target minimum 90 percent with branch coverage enabled) andSonarQubequality gate compliance for Bugs Code Smells and Vulnerabilities

• Support GitLab CI/CD pipelines for the teams services including build test scan and deployment stages and ensure the teams deployments are fully automated

• Partner with the teams Scrum Master and Business Analyst on detailed roadmap maintenance for the teams Epic area providing technical level-of-effort estimates resource allocation input and milestone reprioritization recommendations

• Participate fully in SAFe Agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning Daily Standup Sprint Review Retrospective and Backlog Refinement) bringing the technical perspective to estimation dependency identification and acceptance discussions

• Support Program Increment (PI) Planning preparation by ensuring features are technically ready dependencies are flagged and effort estimates are realistic

• Support change management documentation and coordination through the federal change advisory process (typically a ServiceNow-based workflow) working with the federal Project Manager to ensure release approvals are in place in advance of each release

• Attendchangeadvisory meetings as requested to provide technical details supporting release approvals

• Work with the Solutions Architect and federal security team to review security controls applicable to the teams componentsidentifyareas where waivers or exceptions may berequired and support the federal Plan of Action and Milestones (POAM) remediation process

• Lead remediation of security vulnerabilitiesidentifiedthrough routine security scanning within requiredtimeframes(30 calendar days for High-Priority 180 calendar days for Medium-Priority) coordinating fixes across the team

• Support Tier-2 and Tier-3 production issue resolution for components owned by the team leading triage discussions coordinating fixes and verifying resolution

• Coordinate with Triage Engineers the Solutions Architect and federal Product Management on production issues that affect the teams components contributing to root cause analysis and preventive improvements

• Support security architecture documentation for the teams components in support of Authority to Operate (ATO) maintenance in coordination with the federal Information System Security Officer (ISSO) and the Solutions Architect

• Ensure technical documentation for the teams services (APIs data models deployment operations runbooks) is current and accessible in the programs collaboration tools

• Mentor team developers through pairing design review and constructive code review helping the team grow technically and supporting onboarding of new team members

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Systems or a related field (or 3 years ofadditionalexperience)
• Minimum 2 years of professional software engineering experience
• Demonstrated experience as a technical lead or senior developer on an Agile scrum team including providing technical direction to other developers and owning code quality
• Hands-on experience developing production backend or full-stack web applications in Java and/or Python
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL including schema design and SQL tuning
• Working experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch for search indexing
• Hands-on experience with containerized microservices in AWS (Elastic Container Service RDS S3 SNS SQS and related services)
• Working experience with GitLab (or equivalent) source control and CI/CD pipelines including build test scan and deployment stages
• Working experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
• Demonstrated experience leading code review and enforcing engineering standards on a team
• Experience translating functional requirements into well-formed technical work including breaking down complex storiesidentifyingdependencies and providing level-of-effort estimates
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments including active participation in sprint ceremonies and backlog refinement
• Experience leading technical aspects of production incident response and Tier-2/Tier-3 production support
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to developers product owners and government stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting federal government clients

• Experience working in a SAFe environment with multiple synchronized Scrum teams and Program Increment (PI) planning

• Experience with Spring Boot or comparable Java application frameworks for building REST APIs

• Experience with Angular frontends and end-to-end debugging across frontend backend and infrastructure layers

• Experience supporting security control reviews ATO maintenance and Plan of Action and Milestones (POAM) remediation for federal systems

• Experience supporting federal change advisory processes (typically ServiceNow-based) including authoring changedocumentationand presenting at change advisory meetings

• Experience with AWS architectural patterns including VPC isolation application load balancers and private-subnet container hosting

• AWS certification (e.g. AWS Certified Developer - Associate AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate)

• Experience with container image scanning SAST/DAST tooling and integration of security scanning into CI/CD pipelines

• Experience mentoring junior and mid-level developers and contributing to hiring or technical interviewing

Travel Requirements

This is a remote position; however occasional travel may berequiredbased on project needs client meetings team collaboration events or training is expected to be less than 10% and will be communicated in advance whenever possible.

EEO Statement

Aretum is committed to fostering a workplace rooted in excellence integrity and equal opportunity for all. We adhere to merit-based hiring practices ensuring that all employment decisions are made based on qualifications skills and ability to perform the job without preference or consideration of factors unrelated to job performance.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer Aretumcomplies withall applicable federal state and local employment laws.

We are proud to support our nations veterans and military familiesprovidingcareer opportunities that honor their service and experience.

If you require reasonable accommodation during the hiring process due to a disability pleasecontactforassistance.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

U.S. Work Authorization

Applicants must be U.S. citizensorcurrently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time position supports a federalgovernment contract and requires the ability to obtain andmaintaina Public Trust or Suitability Determination depending on the agencys background investigation is not available.

• Health Care Plan (Medical Dental & Vision)

• Retirement Plan (401k)

• Life Insurance (Basic Voluntary & AD&D)

• Paid Time Off

• Family Leave (Maternity Paternity)

• Short Term & Long-Term Disability

• Training & Development

Required Experience:

Manager