Sr Director - Softwr Engnr
Location
McLean, VA | United States
Job description
Description & Requirements
Maximus Federal, a leading provider of innovative business process management and technology solutions for the Federal government, is seeking a highly experienced and dynamic Sr. Director, Digital Platforms and Solutions who is an accomplished technical leader, proactive customer-focused advocate, and a team player.
This role will be responsible for providing strategic direction, leadership, and operational excellence in DevSecOps standards, building solutions using a Software Factory approach. This role requires a deep understanding of Software Development Lifecycle, Tools and Technologies, a strong grasp of industry best practices, and the ability to lead and collaborate. You will bring a deep understanding of Engineering best practices, extensive experience in Digital Transformation and a proven track record of success in leading cross-functional teams.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Foster an environment of experimentation and continual improvement through regular iterations, technical debt reduction and an architectural roadmap.
- Use extensive management skills and experience to develop technical and managerial leadership skills and create a vibrant culture of mutual support and motivation.
- Demonstrate "servant leader" mentality adept at maximizing team performance in an engineering setting, including coaching and consulting.
- Stay in sync with multiple development and product teams routinely reviewing specs and roadmaps to assure development cycles stay on time and are of the highest quality.
- Oversee a highly-engaged geographically distributed team of employees and contingent staff while directly managing senior managers, technical directors, and individual contributors.
- Closely collaborate with technology and business partners across the firm to scale existing products to new lines of business while also advancing our digital agenda through automation and straight through processing.
- Create strategic, and highly- functional, team partnerships with business and other application technology leaders.
- Provide stewardship of a client- centric service operating model that maintains a strong emphasis on rapid product development as well as end to end operational-rigor.
- Utilize best in class technology solutions to develop compelling features Clients will love that also advance strategic agendas, like ongoing application modernization, retirement of legacy platforms, cross-enterprise scaling, cloud migration, and move towards DevOps.
- Further advance a thriving team culture rooted in ownership, agility, innovation and fun. Attract top technology talent while aligning strengths to organizational goals in order to create a learning- rich environment for staff of all levels.
Key Responsibilities:
•Lead, develop, maintain, and execute Maximus Federal Digital Engineering strategy, aligning it with business goals and objectives.
•Establishes and ensures best practices for the software development lifecycle including solution architecture, build, and test, deploy, run, and sustain.
•Lead the building of full-stack automated CI/CD systems and promote best practices for building and operating highly reliable systems.
•Fosters a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation, and excellence while continuously elevating the quality and caliber of our digital engineering organization.
•Provide strategic guidance and recommendations to senior management on Digital Engineering initiatives.
•This role requires the ability to work cross functionally with various teams, and key stakeholders delivering clear recommendations to improve results.
•Stay current with software engineering trends, and best practices.
•Evaluate and select new tools, technologies, and vendors that can drive innovation and business value.
Minimum Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in related field.
- 12-15 years of relevant professional experience required.
- Equivalent combination of education and experience considered in lieu of degree.
- At least 5+ years of people management experience with both on shore direct reports and offshore vendor management.
- Strong background in driving large technical projects from conception to rollout/production.
- Experience managing production incidents with a repeatable process.
- Experience working in multi-team agile development programs.
- Knowledge of cutting edge technologies and toolkits.
- Interest in being actively involved in development and ideation of new features and platforms.
- Experience developing organizational and product KPI's.
- Broad and deep knowledge of technology and trends.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to interact with levels of staff and senior executive management successfully.
Qualifications:
•12+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of leading large-scale transformation projects
•Experience with designing, developing, operationalizing, and maintaining software applications at enterprise scale.
•Experience in strategic planning and execution, with the ability to align technical initiatives with business goals.
•Deep understanding of systems engineering, and an expert in Digital Engineering (DE)
•Expert knowledge in Agile practices, SDLC, and ITIL/ITSM standards, and DevSecOps
•Experience with one or more Cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
•Excellent communication, leadership, and project management skills and the ability to stay current.
•Bachelor's degree in computer science, or equivalent experience
EEO Statement
Active military service members, their spouses, and veteran candidates often embody the core competencies Maximus deems essential, and bring a resiliency and dependability that greatly enhances our workforce. We recognize your unique skills and experiences, and want to provide you with a career path that allows you to continue making a difference for our country. We're proud of our connections to organizations dedicated to serving veterans and their families. If you are transitioning from military to civilian life, have prior service, are a retired veteran or a member of the National Guard or Reserves, or a spouse of an active military service member, we have challenging and rewarding career opportunities available for you. A committed and diverse workforce is our most important resource. Maximus is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Maximus provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disabled status.
Pay Transparency
Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.
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