A Square Group (ASG) · 3 months ago
Technical Lead - Senior
Frederick, MD
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
7+ years expA Square Group (ASG) is a Minority- and Woman-Owned, Physician-Owned small business with over 15 years of experience in federal government contracting, delivering a wide range of technology services. The Senior Technical Lead will oversee multi-team DevSecOps delivery, managing technical strategy and architecture across an AWS-hosted ecosystem while ensuring quality and reliability in software development.
Health CareInformation TechnologyOutsourcing
Responsibilities
Technical Ownership & Leadership
Serves as the overall technical authority across up to 20 Agile teams; set coding, testing, security, SRE, and release standards to achieve frequent, small-batch deployments to AWS with zero downtime
Champions open-source/platform-agnostic tooling and standardization across Dev/Test and CI/CD stacks
Guides decomposition of monoliths into microservices on Amazon EKS, API-first patterns, and 12-Factor/cloud-native practices; ensure high-quality, secure software with automated testing and coverage
Oversees data and code migration plans; lead application decommissioning and integration, including redesign of CI/CD and shift-left security
Maintains a releasable state, enforces automated quality gates, and drives continuous integration/automated testing to reduce human error and accelerate cycle time
Establishes/monitors KPPs, SLIs/SLOs, and MTTR; leads on-call production readiness, incident response, root-cause, and resiliency improvements
Embeds shift-left and zero-trust across identity/devices/network/data/app workloads; ensures RMF/FISMA alignment and mitigation of critical/high/medium vulnerabilities
Oversees Section 508 testing artifacts in release readiness and ensures accessibility deliverables are maintained
Leads monitoring/logging/alerting strategy; ensures real-time performance visibility and enterprise-grade telemetry across applications and dev infrastructure
Partners with aligned mission group to align delivery to system roadmaps, release backlogs, reliability/usage metrics (Maestro Jira + Confluence); maintains daily deployment cadence
Coordinates with government, multiple vendors, UXD/BA/SM ops teams; unifies disparate work into a coherent operational baseline and continuous delivery environment
Ensures data governance, reference data integrity, and business-process/data-mapping best practices; supports application strategy, planning and partner engagements
Maintains architecture, schema, CI/CD, 508, and Release Readiness artifacts; runs QMS/QASP practices and share test assets
Other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics
Minimum 7 years of experience, with a minimum of 6 years specialized in relevant technical domains (DevSecOps/Cloud/Software)
Demonstrated leadership across multi-team Agile programs delivering to AWS with CI/CD microservices
Technical depth: AWS: EKS, RDS, API Gateway, Systems Manager (SSM), Well-Architected; familiarity with Kendra, Comprehend, Lex for ML/NLP integrations
CI/CD & IaC: Jenkins/GitHub, Maven/Nexus, Terraform, Docker/Kubernetes, Vault; strong Git workflows and release governance
Java & JVM stack: Java/Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat; API-first design with Swagger/OpenAPI; JavaScript/Node/React for full-stack collaboration
Observability: CloudWatch/New Relic, ELK (Elasticsearch/Kibana/Logstash), Splunk
Data & streaming: PostgreSQL; Kafka/Zookeeper; familiarity with Spark/Databricks a plus for analytics
Quality & testing: JUnit, Cypress/Selenium/Cucumber, SonarQube; JMeter/Artillery for performance
Security: Fortify/Checkmarx (SAST), Tenable/Anchore/Twistlock (container & vuln mgmt), BouncyCastle (FIPS), Zero-Trust practices
Process/ways-of-working: Scrum/Kanban at scale; Maestro Jira and Confluence; 12-Factor, cloud-native, SRE
Communication & stakeholder leadership: Proven ability to coordinate across government/product/UX/ops vendors; lead incident comms and executive readouts
Executive-level communication; clear briefing of tradeoffs/risks; crisp incident communications
Coaching/mentoring across teams; builds a strong collaboration culture in a multi-vendor environment
Support outside normal duty hour rotations as required by TDD management
Preferred
AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional) or DevOps Engineer – Professional
Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), HashiCorp Terraform Associate
Security: CISSP, CCSP, or equivalent; plus FedRAMP/RMF familiarity aligned with DHS/USCIS policy
Minimum 10 years technical leadership on large federal Agile programs; prior USCIS/DHS experience
Hands-on ML/NLP solutioning with Kendra/Comprehend/Lex, and integration patterns for AI-assisted adjudication workflows
Experience consolidating case management capabilities and executing legacy decommissioning at scale
Deep SRE practice (SLI/SLO/error budgets), capacity planning, on-call rotations, and MTTR improvements
Benefits
Healthcare Benefits
Life Insurance
Disability Coverage
Paid Time Off
401k Matching
Employee Referral Bonus
Education Assistance
Learning and Development Resources
Company
A Square Group (ASG)
A Minority, Woman-Owned, Small Disadvantaged Business. CMMI L3 | ISO 9001:2008 | ISO 20000-1:2011 |ISO 27001:2005 Certified.
51-200 employees
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