Senior Digital Workflow & Rapid Prototyping Developer

Senior Digital Workflow & Rapid Prototyping Developer

Location:

Norfolk, Virginia

Work Arrangement:
Full-time, on-site

Clearance: ACTIVE SECRET CLEARANCE FROM U.S. OR NATO MEMBER NATION REQUIRED

Ironclad Defense Works is seeking a Senior Digital Workflow & Rapid Prototyping Developer to support NATO Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk, Virginia. This is a hands-on development role focused on rapidly digitizing capability-development workflows using approved non-Microsoft low-code, no-code, configurable-application, workflow, lightweight-development, and related tools.

The successful candidate will work directly with operational users to identify workflow problems, translate business needs into minimum viable solutions, personally build and test prototypes and pilots, and iteratively improve those solutions based on operational feedback. The role requires a developer who remains technically hands-on rather than someone primarily performing enterprise architecture, product management, program management, or development-team supervision.

• Rapidly design and personally develop digital workflow proofs of concept, prototypes, and operational pilots using approved non-Microsoft platforms and tools.
• Work directly with process owners, operational users, analysts, managers, and information stakeholders to understand current workflows, pain points, handoffs, decisions, and data requirements.
• Document current and desired workflows, including user roles, workflow states, decision points, information exchanges, business rules, and minimum required functionality.
• Translate operational needs into minimum viable prototype and pilot requirements.
• Build applications and workflows that reduce manual, spreadsheet-intensive, email-driven, form-based, and document-centric processes.
• Configure structured data capture, workflow states, user roles, validation, business rules, routing, approvals, notifications, and role-based views.
• Integrate prototypes with approved enterprise data sources using APIs, databases, web services, webhooks, structured data exchanges, and other authorized mechanisms.
• Develop lightweight scripts, application logic, integrations, components, or extensions when platform configuration alone is insufficient.
• Use approved AI-assisted development capabilities, when available, to accelerate prototyping, coding, configuration, testing, documentation, and iterative development.
• Conduct operational pilots and user testing and modify solutions based on observed use, stakeholder feedback, defects, usability findings, and changing requirements.
• Assess prototype impact on cycle time, manual effort, data completeness, workflow visibility, traceability, usability, and user adoption.
• Identify security, architecture, integration, licensing, hosting, scalability, data-management, and sustainment constraints.
• Apply appropriate version control, configuration management, testing, documentation, and lifecycle practices.
• Prepare transition packages for successful prototypes and pilots, including requirements, user stories, workflow designs, data structures, integrations, test results, limitations, and technical dependencies.
• Coordinate with enterprise developers, Dev Sec Ops  teams, platform owners, system integrators, cybersecurity personnel, and other scaling organizations.
• Present prototype findings, user feedback, technical trade-offs, implementation risks, and scaling recommendations to CAPDEV leadership.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Engineering, Human-Centered Design, Business Process Management, Business Information Technology, or a closely related field; or at least five years of directly relevant…