Development Lead

Location: Huntsville AL
Required Clearance: SECRET
Required Education: Bachelors degree in computer science software engineering information systems engineering or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
Required Experience: Senior software engineering experience leading full-lifecycle application design development testing deployment sustainment modernization and technical support in secure enterprise environments.

PingWind is seeking a Development Lead to provide technical leadership for PAE Fires software design development testing deployment sustainment and modernization. The Development Lead will serve as a technical point of contact for Government applications and associated platforms lead development across GOTS/MOTS/COTS solutions and ensure applications remain secure available maintainable and aligned with PAE Fires business and mission requirements.

Typical Responsibilities/Tasks:
Lead the design development testing deployment maintenance modification reuse re-engineering and retirement of software applications supporting PAE Fires acquisition functions on classified and unclassified systems.
Serve as a technical point of contact for software configuration installation support and associated hardware/platform dependencies.
Direct software and enterprise/platform application development activities including source-code development testing execution maintenance code review release planning and technical documentation.
Lead sustainment and modernization of legacy systems as well as new development ensuring solutions meet specific client/business requirements and integrate with controlled product-development processes where required.
Create update and maintain development staging pre-production production and training environments to ensure application availability and integrity.
Use Government-specified automated tools to evaluate database capacity and availability optimize performance/resource usage identify emerging issues improve reliability/maintainability and maximize throughput; coordinate database maintenance with the Government.
Ensure development and administration activities follow PAE Fires software-development standards and are tracked and documented through Government-provided technical service-ticket tools.
Maintain application security and authorization controls including connections accounts privileges and underlying database access; coordinate with cybersecurity staff to identify and remediate vulnerabilities and computer incidents.
Lead business application development and support for GOTS MOTS and COTS solutions applications SBM SharePoint and components of the PAE Digital Enterprise; support licenses user accounts patching and availability.
Coordinate closely with infrastructure database network cybersecurity and customer stakeholders to plan releases resolve dependencies and sustain mission applications.

Advanced software engineering experience across the full software-development lifecycle including architecture/design coding testing deployment sustainment and modernization.
Strong experience with /C# application development and enterprise web/application technologies; familiarity with Angular JavaScript or comparable front-end technologies is relevant to the supported environment.
Experience with Microsoft SQL Server database performance/availability concepts and application-to-database integration.
Experience with version control automated build/release pipelines code review testing and DevOps-oriented development processes using Git and Azure DevOps or comparable tools.
Experience maintaining multiple application environments (development through production) and coordinating controlled releases and maintenance activities.
Working knowledge of application security access control vulnerability remediation secure coding and coordination with cybersecurity/RMF teams.
Ability to lead software teams serve as a technical POC estimate/plan work manage technical debt and communicate solutions to Government customers and technical stakeholders.
SECRET security clearance.

Experience with Azure DevOps Server Git Visual Studio IIS SharePoint Online Power Platform Serena Business Manager and other technologies identified in the PWS supported-software environment.
Experience implementing secure software-development practices such as static code analysis DISA Application Development STIGs OWASP Top 10 mitigations and software-assurance controls.
Microsoft Azure DevOps DevSecOps or secure software-development certifications.
Experience developing and sustaining applications in Army/DoD classified and unclassified environments.

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