Role Summary

Technical lead for the delivery team. Sets engineering standards across a hybrid estate of legacy .NET applications, Drupal websites, and cloud-native modernization workstreams; owns technical quality, mentors developers, and is accountable for site performance, capacity, security posture, and accessibility of everything the team ships.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead design and implementation across the full stack - front end, middle tier, APIs, database, and deployment - for both sustainment and modernization work.
• Establish and enforce coding standards, branching strategy, code review discipline, test coverage expectations, and definition of done.
• Own website technical performance and capacity: caching strategy, CDN configuration, load and stress testing, and remediation of bottlenecks.
• Partner with architects on solution decisions; translate architecture into executable sprint-level design and task breakdown.
• Mentor and technically direct developers, content analysts, and testers; conduct design reviews and pair sessions.
• Drive DevSecOps practice: containerized builds, pipeline automation, static/dynamic scanning, dependency and vulnerability management.
• Serve as escalation point for complex production incidents; lead root cause analysis and corrective action.
• Interface with product owners and government technical stakeholders to shape requirements into deliverable increments.
• Champion responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering tooling to accelerate delivery without compromising security or quality.
• Ensure engineering delivery aligns with DOL Enterprise Architecture, approved product/architecture decisions, PACE/container platform standards, and Government-controlled repositories and environments.
• Own release-readiness technical evidence, including code review, unit/automation results, Section 508, browser/mobile, performance, security, deployment, release notes, and technical documentation.
• Lead integration design across Drupal/.NET, DB2/MySQL, Appian, SharePoint, Login.gov, Kafka, APIs, and AWS services while preserving legacy functionality during phased modernization.
Required Skills & Experience
• 10+ years of hands-on full stack development, including 5+ years in a technical lead capacity.
• Deep .NET / C# experience (10 years preferred) plus 5+ years hands-on Drupal in a full stack capacity.
• Proven integration experience with enterprise case management/BPM platforms (e.g., Appian), document platforms (e.g., SharePoint), and relational databases including DB2.
• Strong cloud engineering background - AWS preferred (EKS/Kubernetes, Aurora, S3, EFS, Secrets Manager, CloudFront/WAF, ECR).
• CI/CD and DevSecOps leadership: GitLab pipelines, containerization, automated security scanning, release management.
• Demonstrated ownership of Section 508 / WCAG 2.1 AA compliance for delivered systems.
• Agile/SAFe delivery leadership; ability to run ceremonies and manage technical debt deliberately.
• Substantial experience with AI-assisted programming tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot and other DOL-approved secure AI tools) applied to production engineering.
• Hands-on experience with DOL-style configuration/change management, ATO/security authorization support, vulnerability mitigation, and production support in regulated environments.
• Demonstrated ability to govern AI-assisted code generation using secure enterprise tools, human review, testing, traceability, and quality controls.
Preferred Qualifications
• Drupal/Acquia certification; AWS Solutions Architect or Developer certification; Agile/SAFe certification.
• Event-driven architecture experience with Apache Kafka.
• Prior federal program experience with ATO, STIG remediation, and formal CM.
Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a directly related field with 10+ years of relevant experience.