Principal Software Engineer
About The Position
Karsun Solutions is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for a contingent opportunity supporting the modernization of digital services and delivery of healthcare and benefits programs for Veterans at the Department of Veterans Affairs. The program expands the Digital Transformation Center’s ability to deliver enterprise applications using modern development frameworks, low-code/no-code platforms, and cloud-based SaaS and PaaS environments. It supports multiple concurrent products for a wide range of users while maintaining reliability, security, and delivery speed across a complex enterprise platform environment. The role leads technical design and engineering for modular, reusable, platform-agnostic solutions across DTC platforms, plans technical work with agile teams and VA stakeholders, helps products pass architecture, security, and release approval gates, and contributes to platform standards. It also involves maintaining cloud DevOps pipelines, applying AI-assisted development and testing with human oversight, remediating technical debt, preparing products for sustainment, designing for compliance, and mentoring engineers. Candidates must reside in one of the listed states and be authorized to work in the U.S. Candidates local to the DMV area and willing to work onsite two days per week are preferred.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Business Management, Information Resource Management, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, or a related field, plus at least 10 years of relevant experience; 10 years of relevant experience may substitute for the degree.
- Demonstrated knowledge and use of modern software development and DevOps tools, including GitHub, and implementation of a DevOps pipeline in a cloud environment.
- Experience as a Chief Architect or Senior Engineer on a production system in a commercial cloud service provider (CSP) environment.
- Experience as a Software Engineer on at least one project in a CSP environment.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a VA Public Trust background investigation.
- Available on contract award and willing to sign a letter of commitment.
- Eligibility to obtain a security clearance.
- Must reside in CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, IL, MD, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OK, PA, SC, TX, or VA.
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Nice To Haves
- Experience delivering on Appian, Pega, or Box, and familiarity with Salesforce/MuleSoft and Microsoft Power Platform, including integration through APIs and reusable software components.
- Experience with VA platforms or VA enterprise environments.
- Experience applying AI-assisted development and automated testing tools.
- Local to the DMV area and willing to be onsite two days per week.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical design for modular, reusable, platform-agnostic solutions across DTC PaaS and SaaS platforms, including APIs and SaaS integrations.
- Translate prioritized agile requirements into technical designs, estimates, and Definitions of Done with scrum teams, DTC Platform Leads, and VA product owners.
- Prepare solutions to pass DTC solution architecture, security architecture, and release management approval gates.
- Contribute to quarterly revisions of DTC platform-specific standards.
- Build and maintain cloud DevOps pipelines in GitHub.
- Apply AI-assisted code generation, automated testing, and code quality analysis, maintaining human oversight and accountability for every deliverable.
- Lead remediation plans for non-conformance exceptions found during the 90-day product warranty.
- Prepare modules for transition to sustainment.
- Incorporate Section 508, HIPAA, FedRAMP, and ATO requirements from the design stage.
- Mentor engineers across delivery teams and serve as the technical point of contact to DTC Platform Leads.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
