Senior Technical Lead

About Peraton

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Program Overview

About The Role

Peraton has an immediate need for a Senior Technical Lead that holds an active/current DoD Secret clearance. This is a remote position.

What you'll do:

• Apply technical expertise to lead agile teams in working on unusually complex development challenges and provide product solutions in accordance with Agile Methodologies.
• Establish the basic structure of the system, defines essential core design features and elements that provide the framework.
• Incorporate engineering strategies for introducing new technology into the customer's infrastructure related to its business processes of collection, analysis, production, and dissemination.
• Perform feasibility analysis on potential future projects to management, provide cost-benefit analyses to determine whether requirements are best met by manual, software, or hardware functions; making maximum use of commercial off-the-shelf or already developed components.
• Apply knowledge of enterprise IT or engineering needs to design improved processes, generate valid requirements, and ensures that these are consistent with the customer's enterprise technical architecture.
• Design interfaces and brings system elements together, address problems of systems integration, compatibility, and multiple platforms.
• Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
• Customer liaison and support for development activities and to understand and shape requirements, assist the Govt. Product Owners in meeting their duties and responsibilities and managing the Product Backlog.
• Work with the customer and across Scrum Teams to prioritize features, user stories, and identifying team velocity.
• Work with Product Owners to identify priorities, participate in Sprint Reviews, Backlog Refinement, and lead team daily stand-up meetings.
• Work collaboratively among cross-functional teams and multiple vendors to execute timely releases of code.
• Work with Scrum Master to support development and/or sustainment of a software environment that covers the entire Software Development Lifecycle using current methodologies to include Continuous Deployment, Agile, and Development Operations (DevOps).
• Consults with project teams and end users to identify application requirements.
• Assists in the evaluation and recommendation of application software packages, application integration and testing tools. Resolves problems with software and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements.
• Instructs, assigns, directs, and checks the work of others on the development team.
• Participates in development of software user manuals and technical reports.
• Provide support to the Enterprise Architecture team, the Release Train Engineer (RTE), and Senior Leadership. Coordinate intra-team, external-team, cross-ART, and cross-functional cooperation to facilitate synergy and success across the Program.
• Attend Program-Level Ceremonies and Reviews on behalf of the Scrum Team and brief Team status during Quarterly Program Increment Planning sessions.
• Create and update user stories in Jira/Confluence.
• Submit weekly and monthly status reports and deliverables.
• Develop and deliver working level and senior leadership briefs.
• Understanding of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) process, Kanban Framework, and Waterfall methodologies and how to utilize these within daily activities.
• Produce high-quality papers, presentations, recommendations, and findings for senior government Intelligence and operations officials.

Qualifications

What you'll need:

• Requires 14 years expeirence with AS/AA degree or 12 years with BS/BA or 10 years with MS/MA or 7 years with a PhD.
• Knowledge of IT standards, agile methodologies, system development life cycle and project management frameworks
• Familiarity with ticketing system, such as ServiceNow.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to foster collaborative relationships with customers, teaming partners and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to resolve customer issues very quickly and accurately.
• Experience with software development (Java React, Go preferred) and full-stack development
• Experience working with data and databases in both structured and unstructured formats.
• Experience architecting and implementing storage solutions appropriate for the complex enterprise needs
• CI/CD experience preferred.
• Hands-on experience in AWS (S3, EC2, ECS, etc), Certified AWS Solutions Architect preferred
• Experience in some or all of the following tools: GitLab, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, Jenkins, Zephyr, Docker, PostgreSQL
• Experience in modern web development including Javascript UI Libraries such as React, Angular, or Vue. Experience with CSS and JS.
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills to effectively communicate technical information.

Certification needed:

• DoD 8570 certification (CISSP or Security+) within 90 days of hire.

Desired Certification:

• Agile SAFe 4.5/5.0 Certification or equivalent is preferred.

Clearance needed:

• Active DoD Secret clearance

SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

Details

Target Salary Range: $112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO:Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.