Technical Team Lead

Responsibilities

• Guide and support a cross‑functional team of up to 15 developers and testers.
• Act as a technical point of contact, work closely with stakeholders, and help remove obstacles to progress.
• Provide hands‑on technical direction and contribute to architectural discussions.
• Partner with the government technical lead to align goals and expectations.
• Encourage team growth by mentoring, coaching, and facilitating skill development.
• Promote process improvements and help tackle complex technical challenges.
• Foster a unified, purpose‑driven team approach to problem‑solving and delivery.

• You must live within the DC, MD, VA area.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Candidate must be able to obtain CBP Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree plus 8+ years experience or equivalent education and experience.
• Minimum of 5 years' hands‑on experience building applications with Java and related frameworks.
• At least 3 years of experience providing technical leadership or mentoring within a development team.
• 1+ year of front‑end development experience using JavaScript or frameworks such as Angular.
• 3 or more years working on Agile teams using tools like Jira to manage user stories and team workflows.
• Experience working in an automated build and deployment environment with tools like Git, Jenkins, Kubernetes, or Sonar Qube.
• Proficient with Spring and Spring Boot for enterprise application development.
• Familiarity with ORM frameworks such as Hibernate or MyBatis.
• Skilled in writing unit tests to support automated test coverage.
• Experience developing applications that interface with relational database systems such as Postgres, DB2 or Oracle.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
• Proven ability to turn business needs and functional requirements into reliable, maintainable code.
• Strong collaboration skills, with a focus on meeting or surpassing client expectations through teamwork.
• Hands‑on experience building and deploying applications in cloud environments, such as AWS.
• Familiarity with Java Messaging Service (JMS) technologies.
• Background working on projects within the federal government space.