Responsibilities for this Position
Location: USA VA Home Office (VAHOME)
Full Part/Time: Full time
Job Req: RQ172734

Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None

Suitability:

Public Trust/Other Required:
NACI (T1)

Job Family:
Software Development

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Agile Scrum Development, Software Components, Software Development
Certifications:

Experience:
10 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
No

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Lead Software Developer supporting the United States Postal Service (USPS). GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects, build your skills, and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Lead Software Developer supporting USPS remotely, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Lead Software Developer joining our team to play a meaningful part in creating software systems that implement United States Postal Service (USPS) priorities.

HOW A LEAD SOFTWARE DEVELOPER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Researches, designs, develops, and/or modifies enterprise-wide systems and/or applications software
• Mentor and guide agile development team in applying industry best practices to build reusable software components with API, data-driven, and modular development.
• Contribute to team deliverables through hands-on software development, code reviews, and testing.
• Adhere to operating standards for such items as change control, source code control, issue tracking, time reporting, etc.
• Hold both yourself and the development team accountable for high standards for code quality and automated test coverage.
• Provide key input into software designs, effort and cost estimates, and planning activities as needed.
• Set the standard for engineering excellence and work closely with our team to inspire and deliver their best work.
• Execute against project plans and delivery commitments and oversee technical reviews of code produced by the engineering team.
• Work with product owners to define technical paths to success, provide transparent direction for the team, and ensure technology decisions support Government and corporate strategies.
• Work with analysts, testers, and developers to synthesize requirements and design questions, and act as technical point person with clients throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide senior technical leadership with a focus on testability, application performance, security, and design issues, development infrastructure and cloud deployment and infrastructure.
• Lead new application development for new compliance programs, and application modernization efforts for legacy systems and/or regulatory updates.
• Conduct security analysis and remediation.
• Debug software in a complex, multi-component environment.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery configuration.
• Demonstrated ability to influence architecture and design of complex multi-component systems).
• Able to develop and influence best practices for software development.
• Identify functional requirements through process analysis, review of documents and procedures, and interviews and meetings with stakeholders.
• Integrate feedback and revisions into all work products.
• Work on multiple projects simultaneously and be able to work closely with a remote, distributed team.
• Self-starter who can manage their own work and help other team members with their tasks.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education:

• BA/BS or equivalent

Required Experience:

• 10+ years of related professional experience

Required Technical Skills:

• Experience with application development planning and estimation, with proven ability to estimate development tasks and identify associated risks and dependencies.
• Experience executing projects using agile software development principles, and the scaled agile framework
• Experience with UI/UX Responsive Design
• Working knowledge of EDI (X12) data transfer formats
• Experience with all of the following:
  • Java Spring Boot
  • Java
  • Angular
  • API Experience
  • Kubernetes
  • GitHub
  • Kafka
  • Rancher
  • AFT
  • Microservices

Security Clearance Level:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
• The security clearance for this program requires the selected candidate to have resided in the US for the past five years. The selected candidate cannot have left the country for longer than 90 consecutive days and no more than 180 cumulative days.

Location:

• 100% Remote in the U.S.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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The likely salary range for this position is $112,000 - $168,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:
Remote

Work Location:
Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 30 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation's most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.

GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.

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