Development Lead

Capio Group is looking for an experienced Development Lead! Full-time employee - Remote Salary: $120,000 - $130,000

About Us:

Capio Group is a California-based Information Technology Consulting firm serving the public sector since 2010. We assist the Government in delivering large, complex systems and solutions. Capio Group is a small, but quickly growing firm that mixes good ideas, with great people, to achieve extraordinary results for our clients. We offer the salary and benefits of the bigger companies, with the added bonus of a flexible workplace and a great work-life balance. Scope of Work: Capio Group is looking for an experienced Development lead to work as a part of the team to design, develop, test, implement, maintain and support a solution for the client's Automation System. This new Automation System would allow the client to streamline business processes and offer more efficient online services to users. The team will also provide technical expertise across key domains, including enterprise architecture, network infrastructure, database administration, communications systems analysis, application development and programming, quality assurance and validation, training support, and cybersecurity to ensure a secure, scalable, and high-performing system. The Development lead will lead requirements gathering, business and technical process analysis, gap assessments, and documentation to support system design, integration, and validation of business needs throughout the transition. The duties and responsibilities of the Development Lead include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Managing all design, development, integration and implementation tasks, activities and resources.

• Leading and managing all development activities and ensuring that the Solution supports the Automation System Requirements.

• Managing all Program Increment tasks and activities.

• Leading and managing Hybrid agile development efforts to deliver incremental Solution technical requirements, design, configuration, customization, features testing, and implementation.

• Coordinating release content and efforts based on the backlog, Application Programming Interfaces (API), third-party applications and updates.

• Managing risks and resolving issues that affect system performance, release scope, schedule, and quality.

• Coordinating and ensuring satisfactory completion of data migration, data integration, security, testing and all other areas with the respective client staff and Leads for these areas.

• Planning and managing all development and release activities.

• Managing configuration management methodologies, technologies and needs.

• Overseeing and ensuring that documentation of key information, such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and defect fixes are reflected and documented accurately in the appropriate Deliverables documentation.

• Leading the day-to-day activities of the technical staff who are engaged in the technical development and management of the Automation System Solution.

• Managing technical resources to ensure that all technical issues are resolved.

• Assessing proposed design alternatives based on all identified constraints, such as cost, schedule, usability, and reliability.

• Developing solution components that protect Automation System Solution and data by establishing policies, practices, and tools that prevent unauthorized access, unauthorized use, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized modification, or disruption.

• Developing and delivering the Automation System Solution security design and overseeing Contractor’s implementation of security roles, separation-of-duties analysis rules, security role provisioning solutions, and application security scanning.

• Ensuring security-related solution functions comply with the Contract requirements.

• Managing the creation and maintenance of user accounts, and roles, as well as managing role hierarchy, function security policies, data security policies, and provisioning.

• Managing security features, such as encryption and masking of sensitive data like credit card information, PII, and bank account numbers.

• Identifying and resolving weaknesses and vulnerabilities in the Automation System Solution.

• Performing security and penetration testing of all infrastructure and application components.

• Creating the security test plan for infrastructure and all application components. Mapping security test plan items to NIST controls in conjunction with the client.

• Coordinating Contractor’s response to information security vulnerabilities, incidents, breaches, audit requests and reporting.

• Providing the security implementation plan and architecture topology in advance of code deployment.

• Working with the client to ensure that all security configurations and policies are in place.

• Working with the Test Lead to ensure that all security testing, including penetration testing of all infrastructure and application components are in compliance with requirements.

• Planning and leading implementation of accessibility standards, ensuring compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 meeting AA standards, Section 508 of the United States Rehabilitation Act, and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines.

• Participating in design sessions with various team members to ensure that accessibility requirements and considerations are taken into account early in the design process.

• Collaborating with Contractor developers on accessibility principles, solution development, code review, issue remediation, and best practices, including but not limited to, providing resources and leadership on accessible design, color contrast, error handling, usage of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) attributes, document accessibility and testing.

• Actively participating in all aspects of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), and resolving accessibility issues from design, development, testing and through deployment.

• Leading accessibility audits of the design and solution, identifying accessibility issues, areas for improvement, and recommending appropriate fixes.

• Leading automated and manual accessibility testing, in collaboration with the Test Lead, to test tools utilized by people with disabilities, including but not limited to keyboard navigation, screen reader testing, semantics testing, color contrast, focus, reading order, alternative text, language, and reading level.

• Developing reports and logging defects with detailed findings, including the type of violation, references to WCAG guidelines and other applicable laws, screenshots, severity levels, and recommendations for remediation.

• Performing regression testing to ensure accessibility bug fixes and documenting the results.

• Coordinating activities with designers, developers, users, project managers, stakeholders and providing guidance on accessibility best practices and techniques, including the applicable laws and regulations, to ensure that accessibility is considered and implemented throughout the project lifecycle.

Mandatory Experience:

• Within the last ten (10) years, must have experience in applications development including at least three (3) years of experience on projects involving a Qualifying Software Solution with enterprise level web- based application solution development.

• Within the last ten (10) years, must have have at least three (3) years of experience on a Qualifying Software Solution managing an agile or hybrid agile software development or similar agile development methodology.

• Within the last ten (10) years, must have at least three (3) years of experience as a technical team leader performing oversight of technical staff resources, resolving system defects and reporting resolutions.

• Must be able to provide a client/user end reference contact information for each applicable project meeting the requirements upon request in the qualification form. In addition, you must be able to submit completed reference forms when requested. Each reference form must be signed by the referenced individual. The reference contact must be a representative of the company for which the project was developed and must have served in a management or supervisory role.

Desirable Experience:

• Possession of a bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or equivalent. A copy of the degree must be provided upon request. If the degree used to satisfy this requirement is from an educational institution in a foreign country, it must be accompanied by an evaluation performed by a member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) or The Association of International Credential Evaluators, Inc. (AICE).

• Within the last ten (10) years, shall have at least three (3) years of experience in designing and implementing a Qualifying Software Solution with electronic data processing.

• Within the last ten (10) years, shall have at least three (3) years of experience developing a distributed and multi-tiered cloud-hosted application.

• Within the last ten (10) years, shall have at least three (3) years of experience developing APIs and web services for *high volume simultaneously transactional systems similar to metrics of the Qualifying Software Solution. *A 'High volume, simultaneously transactional' refers to systems designed to handle a large number of transactions occurring concurrently, or at the same time.

• Within the last ten (10) years, shall have at least two (2) years of experience on a project that implemented a Qualifying Software Solution that involved integration of multiple system interface(s).

• Within the last ten (10) years, shall have at least five (5) years of experience as a full-stack development lead on a Qualifying Software Solution’s development project.

• Within the last ten (10) years, shall have at least five (5) years of experience on projects using both relational and non-relational (or non-SQL) database.

• Within the last ten (10) years, shall have at least three (3) years of experience with developing an enterprise level workflow engine. *An enterprise workflow engine is a software platform, service or library that automates and manages the execution of business processes, orchestrating a series of tasks and decisions.

• Possession of one or more industry-recognized certifications relevant to roles and responsibilities, such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate. A copy of the certification must be provided upon request. Certification cannot be substituted with the years of experience.

• Within the last ten (10) years, shall have at least year (1) year of Notary Automation experience.

Equal Opportunity Employer: At Capio Group, our employees are our greatest asset and diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of who we are. Our commitment to these values is unyielding and is central to our mission and to our impact. We know that having diverse perspectives helps to generate better ideas to solve the complex problems of our diverse clients and the communities they serve.