Development and Automation Lead

SkyePoint Decisions is a leading Cybersecurity Architecture and Engineering, Critical Infrastructure and Operations, and Applications Development and Maintenance IT service provider headquartered in Dulles, Virginia with operations across the U.S. We provide innovative enterprise-wide solutions as well as targeted services addressing the complex challenges faced by our federal government clients. Our focus is on enabling our clients to deliver their mission most efficiently and effectively – anytime, anywhere, securely. We combine technical expertise, mission awareness, and an empowered workforce to produce meaningful results.

This is a contingent position based upon contract win.

SkyePoint Decisions is seeking a Development and Automation Lead to join our team supporting the DoED FSA program. This position is contingent on contract win.

The Development & Automation Lead provides technical leadership for the design, development, integration, automation, testing, deployment, and sustainment of secure software and automation capabilities supporting Federal Student Aid (FSA). The role leads implementation of FSA-approved software development lifecycle (SDLC), DevSecOps, CI/CD, security, testing, configuration management, and release practices while driving automation across development, cybersecurity, data, workflow, and authorization activities.

The position works closely with Government stakeholders and multidisciplinary technical teams to translate business, cybersecurity, and technical requirements into secure, scalable, maintainable, and automated solutions.

This is a remote position.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for software development and automation activities supporting FSA systems and cybersecurity capabilities.

• Lead the design, development, integration, testing, deployment, operation, and sustainment of secure software and automated solutions.

• Achieve reporting and transparency metrics, to include compliance reporting, dashboard accuracy, and communication responsiveness.

• Achieve customer and stakeholder experience metrics, including stakeholder satisfaction, governance participation, and speed of access request fulfillment.

• Translate Government mission, functional, technical, and cybersecurity requirements into actionable development and automation priorities.

• Lead implementation of secure SDLC and DevSecOps practices across development and automation efforts.

• Establish and maintain development, secure-coding, automated-testing, configuration-management, documentation, and release standards.

• Drive automation of repetitive development, security, compliance, testing, deployment, evidence-collection, and operational processes.

• Lead CI/CD implementation and improvement, including automated builds, testing, security checks, quality gates, configuration management, and deployment.

• Integrate unit, integration, end-to-end, security, compliance, and infrastructure testing into delivery workflows. FSA development/automation materials explicitly identify these testing activities as part of automated delivery workflows.

• Coordinate software developers, DevSecOps/platform engineers, integration engineers, security automation engineers, data engineers, QA personnel, cybersecurity staff, architects, and Government stakeholders.

• Guide integration of applications and automation solutions with APIs, data sources, cybersecurity tools, repositories, cloud platforms, and enterprise services.

• Lead implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration automation, pipeline-as-code, reusable automation components, and cloud deployment patterns where appropriate.

• Incorporate cybersecurity findings and vulnerabilities into development priorities and automated remediation workflows.

• Ensure application security capabilities such as SAST, DAST, Software Composition Analysis (SCA), dependency/secrets scanning, and other security testing are appropriately incorporated into development workflows.

• Lead technical reviews of code, architecture decisions, automation logic, testing results, documentation, and releases.

• Identify technical risks, integration dependencies, security concerns, performance issues, and delivery impediments and coordinate their resolution.

• Maintain technical artifacts such as architecture decisions, runbooks, standard operating procedures, release documentation, automation libraries, and configuration documentation.

• Support technical demonstrations, backlog refinement, release planning, defect resolution, and continuous improvement.

• Mentor developers and engineers and provide technical direction on software engineering, automation, DevSecOps, and secure-development practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent relevant experience may substitute where permitted.

• 10+ years of relevant software development, engineering, DevSecOps, automation, or related technical experience.

• Senior industry professional certification such as a CISSP or equivalent.

• Demonstrated experience leading complex software development, automation, or engineering initiatives.

• Experience designing, developing, integrating, testing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise software solutions.

• Strong knowledge of secure SDLC and DevSecOps principles.

• Demonstrated experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, source-code management, automated testing, configuration management, and deployment/release automation.

• Experience using Git-based software-development practices and automated delivery workflows.

• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code and/or configuration automation.

• Experience integrating automated security testing and vulnerability-management activities into software-development pipelines.

• Experience with APIs, enterprise integrations, distributed applications, databases, and cloud-based solutions.

• Proficiency with modern programming and/or scripting languages appropriate to enterprise automation.

• Experience translating business and technical requirements into maintainable software and automation solutions.

• Strong technical leadership, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills.

• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to Government, engineering, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders.

• Ability to obtain a 6c Public Trust. At least an active Secret clearance is required.

• U.S. Citizenship required.

Compensation

Salary Range: $125,000 - $140,000

The SkyePoint Decisions salary range for this position is a general guideline only. It represents an estimated range for this position and is just one piece of our total compensation package.

Salary at SkyePoint is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, work schedule, the candidate’s combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability, market data and business considerations.

In addition to a competitive salary, SkyePoint offers benefits including a certification incentive program, PTO, floating federal holiday options, several insurance options including HMO and High Deductible plans with Health Savings Accounts [HSAs], Flex Spending Accounts [FSAs], Full Dental Plans, Vision, ST/LT Disability, Life Insurance, and 401k matched.

What We Can Offer You

• At SkyePoint, we go B.I.G. (beginning in GRATITUDE) by recognizing all we have and giving back to our employees, families, and communities. It instills a positive mindset that permeates all we do. By beginning in gratitude, SkyePoint can continue to spread living in gratitude each day.

• Great Benefits: Several insurance options including HMO and High Deductible plans with Health Savings Accounts [HSAs], Flex Spending Accounts [FSAs], Full Dental Plans, ST/LT Disability, Life Insurance, floating federal holiday options, and 401k matched

• Certificate Incentive Program: To promote professional development, we recognize and reward employees who obtain new certifications aligned with business needs.

• Flexible Work Environment

SkyePoint Decisions is an established ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified small business and appraised at CMMI Level 3 for Services and Development. We possess a common vision of excellence and foster a collaborative team culture built upon individual performance and accountability. We invest in our people and systems to create value for our clients. It is the SkyePoint Way. We are grateful for the opportunity to work with exceptional people and give back to the communities we serve. Our employees value the flexibility at SkyePoint that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.

SkyePoint Decisions is a participating E-Verify Employer.

U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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