Lead Application Developer
Job Location:
Suitland, MD - USA
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Job Summary
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Peraton is looking for a Lead Application Developer to join our team of qualified and diverse individuals. This personwill lead the design development modernization and integration of enterprise applications supporting mission-critical federal operations.
This role requires a technically hands-on leader who can drive delivery across modern cloud-native environments while working closely with architects engineers product teams and external partners. You will contribute directly to application development modernization strategy DevSecOps adoption and system integration efforts.
You are expected to move beyond feature deliveryensuring applications are scalable secure resilient and aligned to evolving mission and compliance requirements.
Location: Suitland MD (Hybrid)
Day to Day Roles and Responsibilities:
- Lead development and modernization of enterprise applications within a cloud-native ecosystem
- Refactor legacy and COTS applications into modular microservices-based architectures using open-source technologies
- Design develop and integrate APIs event-driven services and messaging-based systems
- Develop secure scalable and highly available applications supporting high-volume and near real-time processing
- Contribute to AI/ML-enabled application workflows including model integration and deployment support
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting automated testing deployment and security validation
- Implement DevSecOps best practices including secure SDLC automated scanning and compliance validation
- Support system-of-systems integration across multiple applications contractors and technical teams
- Ensure applications align with federal security and compliance requirements including NIST FedRAMP FISMA Zero Trust MFA and ATO support processes
- Design and support data ingestion ETL pipelines transformation analytics and dissemination capabilities
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across application infrastructure integration and data layers
- Lead code reviews mentor developers and enforce engineering standards and best practices
- Collaborate within Agile/Scrum and SAFe delivery environments to ensure consistent execution and delivery quality
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree and 12 years of experience or an Associates degree and 14 years of experience or a High School diploma/equivalent and 16 years of experience.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a Public Trust
- 12 years of experience in software development application engineering or enterprise application modernization.
Demonstrated experience leading application development teams supporting large-scale federal IT modernization or transformation initiatives.
Proven experience designing developing and modernizing enterprise-grade cloud-native applications.
Experience modernizing legacy or COTS applications into open-source microservices-based architectures.
Experience with APIs distributed integrations event-driven architectures and messaging systems.
Experience implementing DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines within secure environments.
Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with data integration ingestion ETL pipelines data transformation and dissemination workflows.
Experience with infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) including Terraform.
Working knowledge of federal security and compliance requirements including NIST FedRAMP FISMA Zero Trust MFA and Authority to Operate (ATO) processes.
- Experience supporting highly available scalable and resilient applications including performance optimization.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum and SAFe development environments.
Experience supporting large-scale federal statistical Census or other mission-critical modernization programs.
Cloud certifications in AWS Azure or Google Cloud.
Experience integrating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities into enterprise applications.
Experience with Apache Kafka or other large-scale event-streaming technologies.
Experience supporting complex system-of-systems integration initiatives.
Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical dental vision life health savings account short/long term disability EAP parental leave 401(k) paid time off (PTO) for vacation and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at Statements
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About Company
Peraton provides innovative solutions for the most sensitive and critical programs in government today, developed and executed by scientists, engineers, and other experts.
