Development Lead

Location: Huntsville, AL

Required Clearance: SECRET

Required

Education:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.

Required Experience: Senior software engineering experience leading full-lifecycle application design, development, testing, deployment, sustainment, modernization, and technical support in secure enterprise environments.

Ping Wind is seeking a Development Lead to provide technical leadership for PAE Fires software design, development, testing, deployment, sustainment, and modernization. The Development Lead will serve as a technical point of contact for Government applications and associated platforms, lead development across GOTS/MOTS/COTS solutions, and ensure applications remain secure, available, maintainable, and aligned with PAE Fires business and mission requirements.

Typical Responsibilities/Tasks:

• Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, modification, reuse, re-engineering, and retirement of software applications supporting PAE Fires acquisition functions on classified and unclassified systems
• Serve as a technical point of contact for software configuration, installation, support, and associated hardware/platform dependencies
• Direct software and enterprise/platform application development activities, including source-code development, testing, execution, maintenance, code review, release planning, and technical documentation
• Lead sustainment and modernization of legacy systems as well as new development, ensuring solutions meet specific client/business requirements and integrate with controlled product-development processes where required
• Create, update, and maintain development, staging, pre-production, production, and training environments to ensure application availability and integrity
• Use Government-specified automated tools to evaluate database capacity and availability, optimize performance/resource usage, identify emerging issues, improve reliability/maintainability, and maximize throughput; coordinate database maintenance with the Government
• Ensure development and administration activities follow PAE Fires software-development standards and are tracked and documented through Government-provided technical service-ticket tools
• Maintain application security and authorization controls, including connections, accounts, privileges, and underlying database access; coordinate with cybersecurity staff to identify and remediate vulnerabilities and computer incidents
• Lead business application development and support for GOTS, MOTS, and COTS solutions, including .NET applications, SBM, SharePoint, and components of the PAE Digital Enterprise; support licenses, user accounts, patching, and availability
• Coordinate closely with infrastructure, database, network, cybersecurity, and customer stakeholders to plan releases, resolve dependencies, and sustain mission applications

• Advanced software engineering experience across the full software-development lifecycle, including architecture/design, coding, testing, deployment, sustainment, and modernization
• Strong experience with Microsoft .NET/C# application development and enterprise web/application technologies; familiarity with Angular, JavaScript, or comparable front-end technologies is relevant to the supported environment
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, database performance/availability concepts, and application-to-database integration
• Experience with version control, automated build/release pipelines, code review, testing, and Dev Ops-oriented development processes using Git and Azure Dev Ops or comparable tools
• Experience maintaining multiple application environments (development through production) and coordinating controlled releases and maintenance activities
• Working knowledge of application security, access control, vulnerability remediation, secure coding, and coordination with cybersecurity/RMF teams
• Ability to lead software teams, serve as a technical POC, estimate/plan work, manage technical debt, and communicate solutions to…