Lead Software Developer

Location: Bethesda, MD ( 2 Days Onsite - May increase as Client needs change)

Position Title: Lead Software Developer

Clearance: Public Trust

Job Overview: LCG is seeking a Lead Software Developer to provide hands-on technical leadership across application development, enhancements, modernization, and secure DevSecOps delivery supporting (Information Technology and Applications Center) ITAC's custom and COTS application portfolio.

This role is accountable for technical direction and delivery execution, ensuring solutions align to the ITAC target architecture, EA governance, and security standards, and that delivery is executed through ITAC's Agile/SAFe delivery model and required technical artifacts (SADs, diagrams, integration plans, ORR readiness support).

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Hands-On Engineering Execution

• Serve as the technical owner for assigned applications and services across the ITAC portfolio, providing implementation leadership for new development, enhancements, operations support, remediation, and modernization efforts.
• Lead sprint-level technical execution within ITAC's Agile/SAFe delivery model, ensuring engineering delivery meets sprint goals and program increment planning objectives.
• Establish and enforce coding standards and architectural patterns (e.g., reusable components, API standards, dependency management, error handling, security-by-design).
• Provide hands-on leadership across the implementation lifecycle: design, coding, debugging, refactoring, performance tuning, and build/deploy readiness.
• Drive software engineering delivery for:
  
  
  
  • custom application development and enhancement
  • COTS configuration/customization and integration
  • refactoring and modernization of legacy applications and services
  
  
  
  

Architecture, Solution Design and ITAC EA Governance

• Ensure all technical solutions align to ITAC target architecture and enterprise architecture/security guidance; actively support EA approvals and governance expectations.
• Author and maintain Solution Architecture Documents (SADs) and supporting artifacts using the ITAC Solution Architecture Template, including updates for major releases.
• Participate in design and architecture reviews, coordinating with product owners, security stakeholders, DevOps/EOps, and configuration management teams.
• Produce and maintain required technical design artifacts, including:
  
  
  
  • logical and deployment diagrams (including container/deployment topology where applicable)
  • interface/integration specifications and dependency mapping
  • data flow diagrams and security boundary considerations
  • integration and implementation plans, including rollback/back-out planning
  
  
  
  

DevSecOps Enablement and CI/CD Pipeline Integration

• Ensure compliance with ITAC configuration management and release packaging standards (standard naming conventions, directory structures, versioning expectations, release-ready packaging).
• Integrate delivery into ITAC CI/CD patterns and pipelines, including:
  
  
  
  • CloudBees Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines
  • GitHub Actions workflows, where applicable
  
  
  
  
• Ensure DevSecOps best practices are implemented as standard controls, including:
  
  
  
  • automated builds, packaging, and artifact promotion
  • test automation embedded in pipelines (unit + regression + integration)
  • automated code quality and security scanning and gating
  
  
  
  

Secure Software Development and Vulnerability Remediation

• Ensure secure SDLC practices are enforced across engineering work, incorporating security controls into design, implementation, and delivery.
• Lead remediation for vulnerabilities and weaknesses discovered through ITAC security scanning and assessments, coordinating remediation plans and timelines with security stakeholders.
• Drive modernization away from unsupported/EOL technologies and dependencies, ensuring systems remain within lifecycle support requirements.

Code Quality, Reviews, Mentorship and Technical Debt Reduction

• Conduct deep technical code reviews focused on:
• correctness, maintainability, performance, and security
• architectural consistency and implementation standards
• testability and unit test coverage enforcement
• Establish quality gates and enforce maintainability standards through tools like SonarQube and pipeline-based controls.
• Mentor developers on engineering best practices, enterprise Java patterns, CI/CD automation, secure coding standards, and container-native delivery.

Testing, Verification, Compliance and Delivery Evidence

• Support and enforce Section 508 accessibility compliance, including ensuring required testing evidence and reporting support where needed
• Ensure required documentation, test evidence, and release artifacts are produced in alignment with ITAC delivery requirements and ORR readiness.
• Ensure testing is embedded across the SDLC, including:
  
  
  
  • unit testing, integration testing, functional testing, regression testing
  • performance/load testing as applicable
  • deployment validation and smoke testing.
  
  
  
  

Production Deployments, Operational Readiness and Post-Deployment Support

• Provide post-deployment validation (smoke testing, defect triage, hyper-care) and lead root cause analysis and corrective action for production issues.
• Ensure stable releases through repeatable deployments and validation aligned to ITAC release governance.
• Support production deployments and operational readiness activities, including:
  
  
  
  • deployment coordination with ITAC DevOps/EOps/CM teams
  • implementation planning, rollback/back-out readiness, and ORR stage gate support
  
  
  
  

Requirements

Experience

• 8+ years of professional software development experience in enterprise environments.
• 2-3+ years of experience leading teams and/or owning architecture/design decisions and delivery outcomes.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (preferred).

Certification

Preferred certifications include:

• Cloud certifications (AWS / Azure / GCP)
• Architecture certifications (TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture credentials)

Technical Skills (Required)

• Java development experience and enterprise frameworks.
• Proficiency with GitHub and/or Bitbucket (branching strategies, pull request workflows, and peer review practices).
• CI/CD engineering with Jenkins and/or GitHub Actions, including build/test/release automation and artifact promotion.
• Static analysis and quality gating using SonarQube.
• Containerization and orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, and/or OpenShift.
• Database change management using Liquibase.
• Unit testing using JUnit with test automation embedded into delivery practices.
• Strong documentation and design artifact skills (SADs, diagrams, integration plans) aligned to required governance templates and review cycles.

Delivery/Process Skill

• Proven Agile/SAFe delivery experience supporting sprint execution and PI planning.
• Experience delivering in regulated environments requiring compliance documentation, security governance, and operational readiness practices

Strongly Desired

• Maven, Jacoco, JFrog Artifactory/Xray, ACR
• Datadog for monitoring/observability
• ServiceNow, Jira, Subject7, Postman/SoapUI
• React experience for UI delivery supporting containerized deployments

Compensation and Benefits

The projected compensation range for this position is $100,000 to $150,000 per year benchmarked in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Salary at LCG is determined by various factors, including but not limited to role, location, the combination of education/training, knowledge, skills, competencies, certifications, and work experience.

LCG offers a competitive, comprehensive benefits package which includes health insurance options (medical, dental, vision), life and disability insurance, retirement plan contributions, as well as paid leave, federal holidays, professional development, and lifestyle benefits.

Devoted to Fair and Inclusive Practices

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

If you are interested in applying for employment with LCG and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply for a posted position, contact our Human Resources department by email at hr@lcginc.com.

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