Lead Developer at Choisys Technology in Fort Meade, MD

Apply Description Job Description: Our MPJV, CVTEK, is seeking a Lead Developer to direct the DevSecOps lifecycle and Agile sprint execution for a highly visible government business system. This is a hands-on leadership role that involves maintaining, troubleshooting, and modernizing legacy codebases while refactoring applications to facilitate data integration with new enterprise platforms. This position is contingent upon contract award. Key Responsibilities: Lead an Agile/Scrum development team utilizing required technology stacks including ColdFusion, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Microsoft SQL Server. Perform conceptual design, detailed design, code, and unit testing of critical IT programs, writing optimized SQL statements to ensure relational database efficiency. Implement Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies, maintaining traceability from user stories to automated unit, integration, functional, and security testing phases. Drive the 10-phase DevSecOps lifecycle (Plan, Develop, Build, Test, Release, Deliver, Deploy, Operate, Monitor, Feedback) to push high-quality product releases. Manage source code integrity and prepare formal CCB release packages, including rollback plans and Fortify security scans. Ensure application integration with agency SSO/PKI authentication mechanisms, remediating critical and high-security findings prior to code submission. Provide Tier III Help Desk support, diagnosing and resolving escalated software application failures within strict response SLAs, and creating incident resolution scripts. Refactor applications to facilitate data integration and module decommissioning. Contribute to overarching project management and sustainment tasks, including providing Agile development metrics for Monthly Status Reports, generating technical content for end-user training, and updating the System Administration Guide (SAG). Requirements Job Requirements Location: Primary performance at the Contractor Site, with requirements to support classified/unclassified work at Government locations (Ft. Meade, MD). Security Clearance: Must possess an active Secret security clearance (with IT-I eligibility) and the ability to successfully pass enterprise-level background suitability screening. U.S. Citizenship is required. Experience: Demonstrated professional experience in a relevant IT engineering mission area. Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline (equivalent professional experience may be considered) Certifications: DoD 8570.01-M / 8140.01 compliant IAT Level II baseline certification (e.g., CompTIA Security+ CE, CCNA Security, or equivalent) as required by the agency.