Technical Lead

We are building a team for one of the U.S. Federal Governments largest technology modernization programs underpinning the U.S. capital markets.

Built on AWS and leveraging an AI-powered software engineering platform this program offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience with next-generation AI Agentic AI cloud technologies and AI-driven engineering.

If you are looking for technically challenging work exceptional learning and a résumé-defining opportunity with national impact I would love to connect.

Job Title: Technical Lead

Position Type: Full-Time

Location: Hybrid (23 days onsite)

Days Remote: 23 days remote

Position Summary:

The Technical Lead provides technical leadership for an Agile Sprint Team supporting a large-scale federal cloud modernization program. This role is responsible for guiding the teams technical direction ensuring high-quality software delivery mentoring developers and translating enterprise architecture standards into effective implementation solutions. Working closely with Product Owners Scrum Masters architects and engineering teams the Technical Lead drives the delivery of secure cloud-native solutions while promoting AI-assisted software development and engineering best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership and solution design guidance for the Agile Sprint Team.
• Establish and maintain high standards for code quality code reviews software design and engineering best practices.
• Translate enterprise architecture standards into practical implementation decisions for the development team.
• Mentor and coach software developers while supporting their technical growth and professional development.
• Partner with the Scrum Master and Product Owner to refine requirements plan sprint scope and support successful delivery.
• Promote the effective adoption of AI-assisted software development tools across the engineering team.
• Resolve technical challenges and remove engineering impediments impacting sprint delivery.
• Coordinate technical dependencies and integration activities across multiple Agile teams.
• Ensure delivered solutions align with cloud-native architecture standards security requirements and established development practices.

Minimum Experience:

• 8 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience serving in a technical leadership or lead developer role.
• Strong hands-on experience developing cloud-native applications.
• Experience working with AWS services and CI/CD delivery pipelines.
• Experience mentoring software development teams.

Mandatory Skills:

• Technical leadership.
• Software engineering.
• Cloud-native application development.
• AWS services.
• Solution design.
• Software architecture implementation.
• Code quality and code reviews.
• Software engineering best practices.
• Agile software development.
• Sprint planning and delivery.
• CI/CD.
• Developer mentoring.
• Cross-team technical coordination.
• AI-assisted software development tools.
• Strong communication skills.
• U.S. work authorization.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• AWS certification.
• Federal information technology delivery experience.
• Experience using AI-assisted developer tooling within enterprise software engineering environments.

Degrees and Certifications

Preferred

• AWS certification.