Software Development Manager

Edgewater Federal Solutions is currently seeking a Software Development Manager to provide technical and team leadership for the application development team that supports the DOE/EHSS AICS contract located in Germantown, Maryland.

This role will need an experienced .Net developer who can also be a strong influencer of iterative development and a coach and mentor that can lead the technical team and manage stakeholder expectations on building and managing applications built on various Microsoft technologies.

• Lead team development efforts towards successful iterative project delivery
• Lead team application operations support
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship
• Define and communicate attainable goals to team members both project and career focused
• Manage multiple streams of work with varied governing processes and reporting requirements
• Ensure appropriate procedures and processes are followed with on-time delivery on projects
• Troubleshoot and coordinate to resolve performance issues
• Monitor, evaluate, and ensure projects and task for delivery commitments and keep communication lines open and transparent on impediments or risk for on-time delivery
• Define and enforce well defined processes and standard to ensure quality in all tasks and documentation
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team and work with Management on opportunities to seek improvement in these areas
• Collaborate with other teams, portfolio managers and Management to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain web applications
• Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to collect and document project requirements, development of user stories, estimates and delivery schedules
• Refine requirements to translate them into functional specs
• Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation, and maintenance of software
• Package and support deployment of releases
• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between applications
• Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties
• Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget
• Provide third-level support to business users. Research and evaluate a variety of software products

• U.S. Citizenship is required per contract to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy clearance
• BS degree in software/technical based field and 5+ years of progressive development experience, focused on data-oriented business applications
• In lieu of a degree, additional relevant experience is applicable
• Hands on experience developing and supporting Enterprise solutions with core Microsoft .Net and related technologies
• Solid understanding with the ASP.NET framework, MVC, C#, SQL Server, and design/architectural patterns
• Experience with SQL database design and development
• Experiencing setting up and utilizing CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in Frontend frameworks like Angular or React
• Experience with HTML5/JavaScript/CSS/jQuery
• Experience with Bootstrap, Typescript, Node.js, NPM, RXJS
• Strong experience with C#, Visual Studio, and MS toolsets
• Experience with Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 or higher
• Experience creating web services from scratch and writing Web APIs
• Understanding of object-oriented and service-oriented application development techniques and theories
• Previous leadership experience and experience working directly with customers
• Experience leading the SDLC using Azure DevOps disciplines and toolsets
• Analyze, map, and refine software requirements
• Excellent communication skills to seek clarity on responsibilities and priorities as strategy and priorities shift
• Experience designing and developing enterprise grade software
• Experience with source control management systems and continuous integration/deployment environments
• Experience with Agile development methodologies including Kanban and Scrum
• Experience with Waterfall development methodologies and the vision and drive to help the team and customer transition to Agile
• Internally motivated and strong influencer of transparency and collaboration within the team and in all interactions external to the team
• Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes
• Demonstrated business acumen
• Collaborate with development team to provide level of effort for all projects to customer
• Experience with proposal writing, cost and schedule estimation, and release management

Nice to have (strongly preferred):

• Certified Scrum Master
• Project Management Professional
• Experience with Agile methodology, and use of development tools such as GitHub
• Experience with automated testing
• Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization
• Experience with technical documentation and adequate writing skills

About Us: 

Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2024.

It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other status protected by applicable law. #LI-HH1