Developer Lead

Position: Developer Experience Lead
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Job Description # Developer Experience Lead Apply
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* * Candidates must be U.S. citizens able to obtain and/or maintain a Department of Defense security clearance as a condition and continuation of employment.
* Developer Experience Lead
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** Remote but must be able to travel to Washington, D.C. as needed. Local candidates preferred.

Role Overview Apex Systems is seeking a Developer Experience Lead to make an enterprise Dev Sec Ops  platform easy, fast, and safe to use. The platform provides source control, continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, automated testing, and security scanning. The selected professional will connect the platform with the developers, learn how teams build and release software, remove friction, and create templates, documentation, and training to establish efficient workflows.

This senior technical leadership role works directly with leadership and application team leads, requiring occasional on-site presence in the Washington, DC metro area with one business day's notice.

Key Responsibilities
* Act as the senior technical advisor to application teams building and maintaining custom software, assisting them in adopting source control, CI/CD, testing, dependency management, and security tooling.
* Study how teams build, test, and release software to identify friction and bottlenecks, recommending improvements that speed delivery without weakening security, accessibility, or operational requirements.
* Turn enterprise standards and policies into clear, usable guidance, and convey developer feedback and pain points to platform and governance leadership.
* Build shared templates, starter repositories, example pipelines, and reusable components that allow teams to begin new work quickly and consistently.
* Partner with platform, security, and operations engineers to keep developer workflows aligned with architecture, cybersecurity, and privacy requirements.
* Guide teams on adopting AI-assisted development tools safely and productively.
* Own the developer documentation and onboarding experience, including best practices, coding standards, how-to guides, and onboarding paths.
* Run workshops, office hours, tech talks, and individual coaching to drive adoption of approved tools and practices.
* Define and track developer experience metrics, such as onboarding time, lead time, self-service rate, and developer satisfaction, utilizing the data to establish priorities.
* Lead technical support and incident response for development teams, performing hands-on troubleshooting when necessary, and provide backup coverage for pipeline engineering, software packaging, and user experience design.

Required Qualifications
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, or a Master's degree in one of these fields.
* 12+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree or 10 or more years of relevant experience with a Master's degree required
* 5+ years in software engineering, Dev Ops, or platform engineering roles, including hands-on work within the last 2 years with an enterprise source control and CI/CD platform and automated testing.
* 3+ years of UX engineering, UX design, or interaction design experience, including designing developer-facing products such as internal developer portals, self-service platform workflows, developer tools, or documentation sites.
* Proven experience leading adoption of shared tools, creating technical documentation, delivering workshops, and coordinating across multiple project teams.

Preferred Qualifications
* Recent experience building repository templates, reusable workflows, and docs-as-code sites on enterprise collaborative platforms within the last 18 months.
* Experience building or running an internal developer portal, service catalog, or self-service platform workflow.
* Proven track record helping developers act on security findings from automated scanning tools without slowing delivery.
* Experience defining and reporting developer experience and delivery metrics to achieve measurable improvements.
* Knowledge of Section 508 accessibility, secure coding practices, and secure software development frameworks.
* Relevant technical certifications associated with developer workflows, Kubernetes development, or user experience design.
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