Technical Lead - Senior

Overview

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LOCATION:

Hybrid

ASG is a Minority- and Woman-Owned, Physician-Owned small business with over 15 years of experience in federal government contracting. We deliver a wide range of technology services, including software development, mobile apps, AI/ML, analytics, data science, big data, Dev Sec Ops , digital transformation, cloud, and cybersecurity. ASG is CMMI Level 3 certified and holds ISO 9001:2015, 20000-1:2018, and 27001:2022 certifications
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The Senior Technical Lead will oversee ASG’s multi-team, outcome-driven Dev Sec Ops  delivery for the client’s decommissioning, integration, and development owning technical strategy, architecture, quality, and reliability across an AWS-hosted, open-source-forward ecosystem with daily, zero-downtime releases.

• Technical Ownership & Leadership:
  Serve as the overall technical authority across up to 20 Agile teams; set coding, testing, security, SRE, and release standards to achieve frequent, small-batch deployments to AWS with zero downtime.
• Champions open-source/platform-agnostic tooling and standardization across Dev/Test and CI/CD stacks.
• Architecture & Modernization:
  Guide decomposition of monoliths into microservices on Amazon EKS, API-first patterns, and 12-Factor/cloud-native practices; ensure high-quality, secure software with automated testing and coverage.
• Oversees data and code migration plans; lead application decommissioning and integration, including redesign of CI/CD and shift-left security.
• Dev Sec Ops  & SRE Excellence:
  Maintain a releasable state, enforce automated quality gates, and drive CI/CD and automated testing to reduce human error and accelerate cycle time.
• Establishes/monitors KPIs, SLIs/SLOs, and MTTR; leads on-call production readiness, incident response, root-cause, and resiliency improvements.
• Security & Compliance Leadership:
  Embed shift-left and zero-trust across identity/devices/network/data/app workloads; ensure RMF/FISMA alignment and mitigation of vulnerabilities.
• Oversees Section 508 testing artifacts in release readiness and ensure accessibility deliverables are maintained.
• Observability & Platform Operations:
  Lead monitoring/logging/alerting strategy; ensure real-time performance visibility and enterprise-grade telemetry across applications and dev infrastructure.
• Backlog & Cadence Governance:
  Partner with the mission group to align delivery to system roadmaps, release backlogs, reliability/usage metrics; maintain daily deployment cadence.
• Collaboration & Integration:
  Coordinate with government, multiple vendors, UXD/BA/SM ops teams; unify disparate work into a coherent operational baseline and continuous delivery environment.
• Data & EDMO/OPQ Support:
  Ensure data governance, reference data integrity, and business-process/data-mapping best practices; support application strategy, planning and partner engagements.
• Quality & Documentation:
  Maintain architecture, schema, CI/CD, 508, and Release Readiness artifacts; run QMS/QASP practices and share test assets.
• Other duties as assigned.

What We Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics.
• Minimum 7 years of experience, with a minimum of 6 years specialized in relevant technical domains (Dev Sec Ops /Cloud/Software).
• Demonstrated leadership across multi-team Agile programs delivering to AWS with CI/CD microservices.
• Technical depth: AWS: EKS, RDS, API Gateway, Systems Manager (SSM), Well-Architected; familiarity with Kendra, Comprehend, Lex for ML/NLP integrations.
• CI/CD & IaC:
  Jenkins/Git Hub, Maven/Nexus, Terraform, Docker/Kubernetes, Vault; strong Git workflows and release governance.
• Java & JVM stack:
  Java/Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat; API-first design with Swagger/OpenAPI;
  JavaScript/Node/React for full-stack collaboration.
• Observability:
  Cloud Watch/New Relic, ELK (Elasticsearch/Kibana/Logstash), Splunk.
• Data & streaming:
  Postgre
  
  SQL;
  Kafka/Zookeeper; familiarity with Spark/Databricks a plus for analytics.
• Quality & testing: JUnit, Cypress/Selenium/Cucumber, Sonar Qube; JMeter/Artillery for performance.
• Security:
  Fortify/Checkmarx (SAST),…