Project Lead / Development Lead

Job Responsibilities

GDIT is your place. You make it your own by bringing your ideas and unique perspective to our culture. By owning your opportunity at GDIT, you are helping us ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Project Lead / Development Lead joining our team to support our customer activities in Washington, DC.  This position can be worked Remote. 

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a project/task manager supporting our customer, you will perform system development management duties.  In this role, a typical day will include:

• Strong technical, administrative, and operational management, including contract management
• Serve as SME for the Development team on various projects
• Participating in the development of technical project plans, proposals, reports, schedules and administrative reporting
• Manage a geographically distributed team with remote access
• Partner with other organizational teams to coordinate project activities
• Attending customer meetings and serving as a technical client liaison
• Mentor developers on the team to work efficiently and streamline the development process
• Planning and prioritizing new projects and upgrades
• Providing recommendations to client on task workload
• Managing risk tracking and mitigation processes
• Coordinating development of deliverables and products
• Ensuring quality assurance of project deliverables
• Maintaining current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned
• Participate in overall contract Agile/Scrum processes and ensure CI/CD practices are followed for releases.
• Facilitate customer collaboration and resolve issues to minimize schedule impact.
• Performing high level technical services on assigned task(s)

HOW A PROJECT/TASK SUPERVISOR WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

• Manages and is responsible for the successful completion of all tasks in assigned project.
• Effectively manages the software development team, a senior team of highly skilled developers, by using a detailed technical understanding of the software development process and environment.
• Responsible for overseeing the software development process while using a Spring framework for the system and development is in JAVA and Hibernate. 
• Properly utilizes Agile Workflow, Jira, and Confluence for assignment and tracking of tasks and capturing requirements.  
• Fully participates in all aspects of the development projects. 
• Is able to analyze and model complex multi-dimensional problems from business and technical perspective to design and implement appropriate solutions.
• Can articulate, document structure and behavior of proposed products and create plans and initiatives and deliver them to client.
• Collaborates with other teams on continuous process improvement strategies, organizational redesign, change management projects, and performance measures for moderately complex business process engagements.

EDUCATION:

• BA/BS (technical discipline preferred)

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years of experience in Software Development Lifecycle (Agile)
• 5+ years of documented management or leadership experience (Product Management, Project Management, Team Leadership, or similar)
• Strong organizational skills along with demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously

Technical Skills:

• Spring Framework, Java, Hibernate, Oracle, SQL, React, Cloud Services (AWS), Jira, Confluence
• PMP and/or CSM Certification preferred
• Jira or AWS DevOps to manage software development lifecycle activities.

Additional Desired Skills:

• Familiarity with refugee and immigrant populations and/or social programs, a plus
• Knowledge of procurement/acquisition processes desired

Other

• US Citizenship Required
• Security Clearance Level: successful candidate will be required to undergo public trust investigation
• Location: Remote (workday operates on Eastern Time Zone) 
• Familiarity with serving as a consultant or contractor in the Federal Government desired

WHAT GDIT CAN OFFER YOU:

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