Senior Development Lead - Automated Workflows

SCOUT Solutions • Arlington, VA

15h • Onsite

About The Position

Our client is staffing Task Force Raptor, a systems development and IT modernization effort in direct support of the White House Communications Agency (WHCA). WHCA is the joint-service Department of Defense organization, aligned under the White House Military Office, that delivers secure voice, video, data, and audiovisual communications for the President, the Vice President, the White House staff, the United States Secret Service, and Presidential emissaries — at the White House, at Camp David, and anywhere in the world the mission travels. The systems this team builds are used to run that mission. The Automated Workflows workstream takes the manual, paper-and-email processes the agency depends on and turns them into governed, auditable, automated workflows — equipment accountability, personnel and access actions, mission tasking, service requests, change and approval chains, and readiness reporting. Processes that run today on spreadsheets, email threads, and institutional memory become process flows, business rules, routing and approval logic, notifications, escalations, and system integrations that are fast, consistent, and traceable. As the Senior Development Lead for Automated Workflows, you set the technical direction for how this agency's business processes get automated. You will own the design of process flows, business rules, approval and routing logic, notifications, escalations, APIs, and system interfaces; establish the standards the team builds to; review designs and code; and personally solve the orchestration problems nobody else can. You will be the technical voice in the room with Government process owners, system administrators, and the security team when the right answer is not obvious. Work is performed onsite in the Arlington, Virginia area, Monday through Friday during core business hours, in accredited Government spaces alongside the Government Product Owner and WHCA technical staff. The team delivers in sprints against a prioritized backlog, with real users a short walk away and short feedback loops. This is a funded position on a ten-year IDIQ vehicle running through 2030 and expected to extend beyond it — the roadmap is long, the funding is in place, and the mission does not go away with an administration. This position requires a Yankee White clearance (Presidential Support Duty). Candidates must be U.S. citizens who currently hold an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and who are able to obtain and maintain Yankee White. We are looking for: A hands-on technical leader who still writes and reviews code, not a manager who used to Someone who can hold a design standard without becoming the bottleneck for every decision Able to explain a technical trade-off to a Government stakeholder without jargon and without condescension Comfortable inheriting undocumented systems and reverse-engineering how they actually work Someone who designs for the security and accreditation requirements from the start, not as a retrofit A mentor — you make the developers around you better Pragmatic about delivering working capability in an environment with real constraints

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Candidate must be eligible for a Yankee White clearance (Presidential Support Duty) in accordance with DoD Directive 5210.55 and DoD Instruction 5210.87, including a favorably adjudicated Tier 5 investigation.
• Candidate must currently hold an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and must be able to obtain and maintain Yankee White.
• Ability to work onsite in the Arlington, Virginia area, Monday through Friday during core business hours.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in software development, workflow automation, business process automation, systems integration, or enterprise application development.
• Including at least 3 years providing technical leadership for workflow automation, systems integration, or application development efforts — design ownership, code review, and standards, not just individual contribution.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing automated workflows, business rules, APIs, system integrations, scripting, notifications, and workflow orchestration across complex enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with one or more enterprise workflow automation platforms, such as ServiceNow, Microsoft Power Platform / Power Automate, Appian, Pega, Nintex, or Camunda.
• Hands-on experience with several of the following: REST and SOAP API design, development, and consumption, Business rules engines, decision logic, and approval routing design, Role-based access control and workflow permission models, Relational database development (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL), Scripting and automation (JavaScript, PowerShell, Python), Version control and CI/CD (Git, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab).
• Demonstrated experience delivering in an Agile/Scrum environment against a sprint backlog.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation — design documents, interface specifications, and deployment procedures.
• Professional interpersonal and written communication skills, and the judgment to operate discreetly in a sensitive, high-visibility environment.

Nice To Haves

• ServiceNow certifications such as Certified System Administrator (CSA), Certified Application Developer (CAD), or Certified Implementation Specialist (CIS).
• Microsoft Power Platform certifications, or Appian, Pega, or Camunda certification.
• Experience in Microsoft Azure Government, AWS GovCloud, or other DoD-accredited cloud environments.
• Experience automating asset and equipment accountability, personnel and access actions, service request management, or change and approval processes.
• Experience with robotic process automation (RPA) and knowing when it is the wrong answer.
• Experience with DevSecOps practices and secure software development in a controlled environment.
• Experience mentoring developers and running effective code reviews.
• Prior experience supporting WHCA, the White House Military Office, DISA, the Executive Office of the President, or another Presidential Support Duty mission.
• Active Yankee White clearance, or a Tier 5 investigation adjudicated within the last three years.
• Experience working in DoD environments subject to RMF, eMASS, DISA STIGs, and Impact Level 5 or 6 hosting requirements.
• Experience in a fast-moving, small-team environment where the customer sits with the delivery team.
• Prior military service, particularly in a joint communications, signal, cyber, or C4 role.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the design, development, integration, testing, and implementation of automated workflow and business process solutions within complex enterprise environments.
• Lead development activities that automate manual processes, improve operational efficiency, integrate enterprise applications and systems, and enable consistent execution of business and technical workflows.
• Provide technical direction to development team members on the implementation of process flows, business rules, approval workflows, notifications, escalations, scripts, APIs, system interfaces, and automated task orchestration.
• Review technical designs and code, establish development standards and best practices, and enforce consistency across the team's work.
• Resolve complex workflow and integration issues, including routing failures, permission and role problems, and integrations that break when an upstream system changes.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, auditable, and aligned with enterprise architecture and operational requirements.
• Work closely with solution architects, business analysts, developers, system administrators, cloud and infrastructure engineers, cybersecurity personnel, and other stakeholders to translate business and operational requirements into automated solutions.
• Support workflow analysis, process optimization, technical design, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of automated processes across heterogeneous enterprise environments involving technologies such as Microsoft, AWS, VMware, and Oracle.
• Design automated processes so that every action is logged, attributable, and reportable — auditability is a functional requirement on this program, not a nice-to-have.
• Support deployment, release, and production operations, including cutover planning and post-deployment validation.
• Produce and maintain the technical artifacts the program depends on, including: Workflow and process design documentation, Business rule and decision logic specifications, Integration and API specifications, Role, permission, and access-model documentation, Development standards and coding guidelines, Deployment and rollback plans.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior