Software Team Manager

Public Trust Eligibility Required

Aretum is a mission‑driven organization committed to delivering innovative, technology‑enabled solutions to our customers across defense, civilian, and homeland security sectors. Our teams work at the intersection of strategy, technology, and transformation, helping agencies solve their most critical challenges. We believe in investing in our people and creating a culture where collaboration, inclusion, and professional growth are at the forefront.

Aretum is seeking a Software Team Manager to join our team supporting a large‑scale federal technology modernization program. As a Software Team Manager, you will be embedded full time within a single Agile scrum team alongside the team's Scrum Master, serving as the technical lead for the team's developers, frontend engineers, and testers. You will work directly with the team's federal Product Owner and Business Analysts to translate functional requirements into well‑formed technical work, lead day‑to‑day technical decisions within the team's scope, drive code quality and Definition of Done across the team, and coordinate with the program's Solutions Architect on architecture‑level questions.

You will partner with the Scrum Master on detailed roadmap planning, resource allocation, and milestone reprioritization. You will support change management coordination through the federal change advisory process and participate in security controls review for the components your team owns. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role, not a pure management role; you will spend time in code, design discussions, peer reviews, and production support alongside the team you lead.

Due to the nature of our work as a federal consulting organization, employees may be expected to handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and must adhere to applicable safeguarding and compliance requirements.

• Serve as the technical lead for a single Agile scrum team, providing day‑to‑day technical direction to the team's developers, frontend engineers, and testers
• Provide technical knowledge and analysis of the team's applications and operational environment, including high‑level functional systems analysis, design, integration, and implementation advice on moderately complex problems
• Translate functional requirements and design specifications received from the federal Product Owner and Business Analysts into well‑formed technical work, ensuring stories are technically sound before they enter sprint commitment
• Make day‑to‑day architectural decisions within the team's scope, escalating to the Solutions Architect and Cloud Architect for cross‑team or program‑wide architectural questions
• Drive code quality on the team by establishing and enforcing peer code review discipline, ensuring no merge request is approved without review by a peer developer
• Own the team's Definition of Done, ensuring it covers code review, testing, security scans, accessibility validation, and documentation, and ensuring the team consistently meets it
• Maintain test code coverage standards on the team's codebase (target minimum 90 percent with branch coverage enabled), and Sonar Qube quality gate compliance for Bugs, Code Smells, and Vulnerabilities
• Support Git Lab CI/CD pipelines for the team's services, including build, test, scan, and deployment stages, and ensure the team's deployments are fully automated
• Partner with the team's Scrum Master and Business Analyst on detailed roadmap maintenance for the team's Epic area, providing technical level‑of‑effort estimates, resource allocation input, and milestone reprioritization recommendations
• Participate fully in SAFe Agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, Retrospective, and Backlog Refinement), bringing the technical perspective to estimation, dependency identification, and acceptance discussions
• Support Program Increment (PI) Planning preparation by ensuring features are technically ready, dependencies are flagged, and effort estimates are realistic
• Support change management documentation and coordination through the federal change advisory process (typically a Service…