Technical Lead

**U.S. Citizenship is mandatory for this position**

Position Summary:

The Technical Lead provides day-to-day technical leadership for a Sprint Team, owning technical direction and code quality while mentoring developers and ensuring team solutions align with the program’s cloud-native, AI-augmented architecture standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership and design direction for the Sprint Team.
• Own code quality, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Translate architecture standards into team-level implementation decisions.
• Mentor developers and support their technical growth.
• Partner with the Scrum Master and Product Owner on delivery and sprint scope.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tooling within the team.
• Resolve technical impediments and coordinate cross-team integration points.

Minimum Experience:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience in a technical leadership role.
• Strong hands-on development experience with modern cloud-native stacks.
• Experience with AWS services and CI/CD delivery.
• Experience mentoring developers.
• Strong communication skills.

Mandatory Skills:

• Technical leadership.
• Modern cloud-native software development.
• AWS services.
• CI/CD delivery.
• Code quality and code review practices.
• Developer mentoring.

Non-technical Requirements:

• Ability to prioritize and self-start.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Adaptability and flexibility as priorities shift.
• Collaboration and receptiveness to feedback and client requirements.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Ability to pass a 7-year background check.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Clearance.
• Enthusiasm for learning and continuous improvement.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tooling.
• Federal IT delivery experience.
• AWS certification.