Location: Huntsville, ALRequired Clearance: SECRET Required Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.Required Experience: Senior software engineering experience leading full-lifecycle application design, development, testing, deployment, sustainment, modernization, and technical support in secure enterprise environments.
Position Description
PingWind is seeking a Development Lead to provide technical leadership for PAE Fires software design, development, testing, deployment, sustainment, and modernization. The Development Lead will serve as a technical point of contact for Government applications and associated platforms, lead development across GOTS/MOTS/COTS solutions, and ensure applications remain secure, available, maintainable, and aligned with PAE Fires business and mission requirements.
Responsibilities
Typical Responsibilities/Tasks:• Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, modification, reuse, re-engineering, and retirement of software applications supporting PAE Fires acquisition functions on classified and unclassified systems.• Serve as a technical point of contact for software configuration, installation, support, and associated hardware/platform dependencies.• Direct software and enterprise/platform application development activities, including source-code development, testing, execution, maintenance, code review, release planning, and technical documentation.• Lead sustainment and modernization of legacy systems as well as new development, ensuring solutions meet specific client/business requirements and integrate with controlled product-development processes where required.• Create, update, and maintain development, staging, pre-production, production, and training environments to ensure application availability and integrity.• Use Government-specified automated tools to evaluate database capacity and availability, optimize performance/resource usage, identify emerging issues, improve reliability/maintainability, and maximize throughput; coordinate database maintenance with the Government.• Ensure development and administration activities follow PAE Fires software-development standards and are tracked and documented through Government-provided technical service-ticket tools.• Maintain application security and authorization controls, including connections, accounts, privileges, and underlying database access; coordinate with cybersecurity staff to identify and remediate vulnerabilities and computer incidents.• Lead business application development and support for GOTS, MOTS, and COTS solutions, including .NET applications, SBM, SharePoint, and components of the PAE Digital Enterprise; support licenses, user accounts, patching, and availability.• Coordinate closely with infrastructure, database, network, cybersecurity, and customer stakeholder