Team Lead, IT​/Tech

Overview

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform® provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have.

The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.

Empower.ai.

Empower AI is proud to be recognized as a 2024 Military Friendly Employer by Viqtory, the publisher of G.I. Jobs. This designation reflects the company’s commitment to hiring and supporting active-duty and veteran employees.

The Applications Team Lead brings senior application project management experience utilizing Agile development best practices. Under indirect supervision, this position oversees the management of multiple application modernization projects, including requirements gathering, estimating level of effort, drafting development stories, facilitating backlog reviews and sprint planning meetings, coordinating resources, reviewing QA results, and performing final review.

This is a remote-eligible position. Local candidates in the Roanoke and Radford, Virginia area are encouraged to apply, and work may be performed locally for those who prefer an on-site or hybrid arrangement. The ideal candidate will bring Agile application project management expertise, strong DoD cybersecurity compliance knowledge, and the ability to support mission-critical Army IT services across enterprise data centers and cloud-hosted environments.

Requirements:

• Three or more years' experience with Dev Sec Ops  development strategies.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical or business discipline is preferred; equivalent years of experience managing application development projects will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Three or more years' experience with Agile development processes and tools.
• Three or more years' experience with Quality Assurance (QA) application testing.
• Three or more years' experience managing budgets and resources across multiple application projects.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience effectively managing multiple large-scale projects.
• Active DoD Secret Security Clearance

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical/business discipline or equivalent years of experience managing application development projects.
• Working knowledge of DoD STIGs and IA Vulnerability Management (IAVM).

Physical Requirements:

This position requires the ability to perform the below essential functions:

• Sitting for long periods
• Ambulate throughout an office
• Ambulate between several buildings

• Occasional travel to government facilities or data center locations may be required based on mission needs.

All hiring and promotion decisions at Empower AI are based on merit to bring the best talent available to contribute to our firm’s overall success. It is the policy of Empower AI not to discriminate against any applicant for employment, or employee because of age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion, or veteran status. Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

USD $87,320.00/Yr.

USD $/Yr.