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We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Developer to lead the design, engineering, and sustainment of enterprise digital solutions within a United States Department of Defense customer environment. This role will provide technical leadership across design systems, AI-enabled product innovation, analytics, and DevSecOps implementation to ensure secure, scalable, high-performing digital services.

The Senior Developer will play a critical role in establishing enterprise standards, modernizing legacy systems, and delivering mission-focused capabilities that are secure, maintainable, and user-centered. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, DevSecOps, analytics implementation, and modern front-end/back-end frameworks within regulated government environments.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Design System Engineering

• Lead the development, implementation, and sustainment of the Enterprise Design System, including:
  • Comprehensive style guide
  • Reusable pattern/component library
  • Design principles
  • Governance model and documentation
• Engineer reusable, accessible UI components that enforce consistency across websites, applications, and digital platforms.
• Translate design artifacts into scalable, production-ready component libraries (e.g., React, Angular, or similar frameworks).
• Ensure Section 508 accessibility compliance and alignment with DoD security requirements.
• Establish versioning, documentation standards, and contribution guidelines.
• Implement automated testing for UI components (unit, regression, accessibility).
• Support designers, developers, content editors, and knowledge managers in adopting the Design System to accelerate development and reduce redundancy.
• Ensure enterprise products maintain usability and quality standards resulting in no more than two (2) validated customer complaints per month.

2. Product Development & Innovation

The Senior Developer will employ agile methodologies to support the full product lifecycle across enterprise platforms (e.g., internal portals, workflow systems, digital forms, and knowledge platforms).

Agile Engineering & Product Support:

• Participate in discovery, requirements refinement, technical design, development, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement.
• Provide architectural guidance for scalable, modular, cloud-native solutions.
• Support modernization of legacy applications using microservices and API-driven architectures.
• Implement modular and reusable code structures to enhance maintainability.
• Contribute to backlog refinement and technical estimation.

AI-Enabled Capabilities

• Design and implement AI-enabled features within Government-approved environments to enhance:
  • Decision support
  • Workflow automation
  • Intelligent search
  • Content summarization
  • Predictiveanalytics
• Integrate AI services using secure APIs and approved cloud-native AI services.
• Ensure human-in-the-loop controls and governance mechanisms for AI implementations.
• Implement logging, auditability, and explainability controls in accordance with DoD policy.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and compliance teams to ensure AI solutions meet ATO and data protection requirements.

3. Analytics & Performance

• Implement analytics frameworks to measure:
  • User adoption
  • Application performance
  • System reliability
  • Mission outcomes
• Integrate analytics tools such as:
  • Matomo
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Other Government-approved reporting and dashboard platforms
• Develop dashboards and performance monitoring solutions to support leadership decision-making.
• Establish telemetry standards for application performance monitoring (APM).
• Provide actionable insights through data modeling and visualization.
• Support continuous improvement through metrics-driven optimization.

4. DevSecOps & Delivery Operations

• Architect and maintain secure DevSecOps pipelines across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines with automated:
  • Build processes
  • Unit and integration testing
  • Security scanning (SAST/DAST)
  • Container scanning
  • Infrastructure-as-Code validation
• Support Authority to Operate (ATO)-aligned deployment processes.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks for operational awareness.
• Ensure secure deployments within Government-assigned cloud environments and approved hosting platforms.
• Enforce secure coding standards and compliance with DoD cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., RMF, NIST).
• Support repeatable, rapid, and secure release cycles with rollback and resilience strategies.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of progressive software development experience.
• 3+ years leading enterprise-level architecture or development initiatives.
• Strong proficiency in:
  • Modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, etc.)
  • Backend development (Node.js, Java, .NET, Python, etc.)
  • RESTful APIs and microservices architectures
  • Cloud platforms (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or equivalent)
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps best practices.
• Hands-on experience with analytics implementation and dashboard tools.
• Experience working in secure, regulated, or DoD environments.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.