Technical Lead, Software Development, Full Stack Developer

Technical Lead

Category: Software Development/ Engineering

Main location: United States, Louisiana, Lafayette

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Employment Type: Full Time

CGI is seeking an enthusiastic, creative, and hands‑on Technical Lead to join a high performing Agile team in designing and building modern, services‑based web applications for a large government agency. With a modern development stack and various open‑source technologies, you will leverage your technical expertise and define a technical vision to build and modernise system applications for cloud environments while leading and mentoring junior developers.

Grow your leadership and technical skills with in‑demand technologies in a fast‑paced environment as part of an exciting, positive team that moves quickly and delivers quality software alongside a passionate customer.

This position is located in our Lafayette, LA office; however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.

• Lead development and collaborate with the project team in an Agile setting, researching best practices, designing and developing application architecture, implementing solutions, managing and mentoring junior development team members, and testing and deploying solutions to AWS cloud environments.
• Contribute to the ongoing architecture and development of modern, cloud‑native applications built with technologies such as Angular and Java/Spring Boot.
• Work closely with users, stakeholders, business analysts, and product managers to understand problem statements, functional and non‑functional requirements.
• Write clean, well‑organized code following best practices while sharing knowledge with the team to grow collective skills in building applications.
• Participate in all phases of an Agile software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, estimation, coding, code reviews, and testing.
• Author and review front‑end and back‑end code leveraging AI‑assisted paired programming tools/techniques.
• Deploy and manage applications on AWS using containerised environments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop and consume RESTful APIs, leveraging experience in API design patterns and microservice communication.
• Provide a solid understanding of data structures, problem solving, algorithm design, and data formats (JSON, YAML).
• Participate in daily stand‑ups, code collaboration sessions, and sprint ceremonies to promote continuous progress.
• Engage in client, industry, and end‑user discussions to provide a technical viewpoint on application(s) you lead/support.
• Lead technical design sessions to create sustainable, high‑performing features and provide accurate estimates and development timelines.
• Drive continuous improvement of existing development tools, technologies, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Author automated testing scripts (unit, integration, and end‑to‑end) for both front‑end and back‑end.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or another technical discipline.
• Minimum 7+ years hands‑on experience in Java development (Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data/JPA/Hibernate, REST APIs).
• Experience providing guidance and coaching and mentoring junior full‑stack developers.
• Experience building and maintaining front‑end applications, including Type Script, HTML, CSS, Angular (v14+).
• Proven experience designing and developing Spring Boot microservices deployed on AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, RDS).
• Experience with PostgreSQL (or similar RDBMS), including schema design, query optimisation, and migration tooling (Flyway).
• Experience with Apache Kafka or similar event streaming platforms.
• Experience with AI paired programming tooling (e.g., Git Hub Copilot, Amazon Q).
• Experience in CI/CD methodologies and tooling (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Sonar Qube).
• Experience in API development and application security best practices (OAuth 2.0, TLS, PKI, JWT).
• Experience in Test‑Driven Development (TDD) and paired programming.
• Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows (Git Hub, Bitbucket, pull requests, code reviews).
• Demonstrated technical leadership skills with a passion for exploring emerging technologies.
• Strong analytical and…