Location: Huntsville, AL
Required 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.

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.

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 stakeholders to plan releases, resolve dependencies, and sustain mission applications.

• Advanced software engineering experience across the full software-development lifecycle, including architecture/design, coding, testing, deployment, sustainment, and modernization.
• Strong experience with Microsoft .NET/C# application development and enterprise web/application technologies; familiarity with Angular, JavaScript, or comparable front-end technologies is relevant to the supported environment.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, database performance/availability concepts, and application-to-database integration.
• Experience with version control, automated build/release pipelines, code review, testing, and DevOps-oriented development processes using Git and Azure DevOps or comparable tools.
• Experience maintaining multiple application environments (development through production) and coordinating controlled releases and maintenance activities.
• Working knowledge of application security, access control, vulnerability remediation, secure coding, and coordination with cybersecurity/RMF teams.
• Ability to lead software teams, serve as a technical POC, estimate/plan work, manage technical debt, and communicate solutions to Government customers and technical stakeholders.
• SECRET security clearance.

• Experience with Azure DevOps Server, Git, Visual Studio, IIS, SharePoint Online, Power Platform, Serena Business Manager, and other technologies identified in the PWS supported-software environment.
• Experience implementing secure software-development practices such as static code analysis, DISA Application Development STIGs, OWASP Top 10 mitigations, and software-assurance controls.
• Microsoft, Azure DevOps, DevSecOps, or secure software-development certifications.
• Experience developing and sustaining applications in Army/DoD classified and unclassified environments.