Technical Lead

RJIT Solutions•Washington, DC

12h

About The Position

The Technical Lead is responsible for guiding the technical direction of the support team across all Federal Agency Applications Branch systems — the Searchable Legal Applications, the Disclosure Suite, and the RAD Modules. This hands-on technologist leads code reviews, architecture decisions, sprint planning, and business owner coordination. The Technical Lead is the senior-most technical authority on the contractor team and serves as the technical counterpart to the COR. Technical Lead are specifically required to attend all scheduled meetings.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field.
Minimum 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience, with at least 5 years of technical leadership of application operations and maintenance teams supporting federal civilian agencies.
Demonstrated experience across Java/Apache Tomcat, Oracle PL/SQL, .NET, and AWS cloud environments simultaneously.
At least one of the following certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional), Oracle Certified Professional (Java SE or PL/SQL Developer), or equivalent senior-level technical certification.
Deep hands-on expertise in Java/J2EE, Apache Tomcat, Spring Framework, JSP, and Angular.
Strong Oracle PL/SQL development, stored procedure design, and SQL performance tuning.
Proficiency in PostgreSQL administration and development, including experience with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
Experience with .NET framework and legacy .NET application maintenance.
AWS services including EC2, RDS, Aurora, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, and Load Balancers.
Jenkins CI/CD pipeline configuration and Git/GitHub source control management.
Agile/Scrum methodology with hands-on experience in Jira, Confluence, and sprint-based delivery.
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools including Snyk, bandit, and OWASP ZAP.
Understanding of FISMA, NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, and OWASP Application Security Verification Standard.
Shell scripting (Bash) and build automation.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree preferred.
Prior experience leading Oracle-to-PostgreSQL database migrations strongly preferred.
Prior Oracle-to-Aurora PostgreSQL database migration experience at a federal agency.
Experience maintaining Java/Tomcat applications at a small federal civilian agency.
Familiarity with Informatica and Crystal Reports.
Experience with Section 508 / WCAG AA accessibility compliance.
Active federal public trust or equivalent clearance.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership and direction across the contractor's developer team for all three Federal Agency application domains.
Conduct and oversee peer code reviews per the QASP standard, ensuring at least one approving review before code merge.
Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, and level-of-effort estimation for Jira tickets.
Serve as technical point of contact with the Federal Agency COR and Deputy CIO of Enterprise Architecture for architecture and design decisions.
Triage incoming Jira tickets, assign severity and priority, and allocate resources across application domains.
Guide the Oracle RDS-to-Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database migration, including schema validation, application compatibility testing, and cutover planning.
Oversee software test plan development, test execution, and release management per the QASP and FEC RFC/CAB process.
Coordinate with business owners (Office of General Counsel Policy Division, Reports Analysis Division, Information Division) on technical priorities.
Ensure all applications remain current with security patching, with zero critical or high SAST findings before code promotion.
Provide technical knowledge transfer and coaching to FEC technical staff per SOW Section 4.13.
Manage the transition-in knowledge transfer from the incumbent contractor during the first 60 days.
Attend all scheduled weekly meetings, monthly business owner meetings, and quarterly planning meetings.