Technical Team Lead

Jobtailor; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior Technical Lead in the DC metro area to guide a cross-functional team of up to 15 developers and testers. You will provide hands-on technical direction, drive architecture discussions, and work with stakeholders including government leads to align goals and deliver reliable software.

The role emphasizes mentoring, process improvements, and cloud deployments (AWS). Strong Java/Spring experience and experience with Jira, CI/CD, and relational databases are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on software development in Java.
• Experience leading or mentoring teams.
• Security clearance eligibility (CBP/Public Trust) preferred.
• Experience in federal government projects is a plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Guide and support a cross‑functional team of up to 15 developers and testers.
• Act as a technical point of contact, work closely with stakeholders, and help remove obstacles to progress.
• Provide hands‑on technical direction and contribute to architectural discussions.
• Partner with the government technical lead to align goals and expectations.
• Encourage team growth by mentoring, coaching, and facilitating skill development.
• Promote process improvements and help tackle complex technical challenges.
• Foster a unified, purpose‑driven team approach to problem‑solving and delivery.

Skills

Java

Spring

Spring Boot

Hibernate

MyBatis

JavaScript

Angular

Jira

Jenkins

Kubernetes

SonarQube

PostgreSQL

DB2

Oracle

AWS

JMS

Unit Testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Kubernetes

SonarQube

AWS

PostgreSQL

Oracle

DB2

MyBatis

Hibernate

Job description

Responsibilities

• Guide and support a cross‑functional team of up to 15 developers and testers.
• Act as a technical point of contact, work closely with stakeholders, and help remove obstacles to progress.
• Provide hands‑on technical direction and contribute to architectural discussions.
• Partner with the government technical lead to align goals and expectations.
• Encourage team growth by mentoring, coaching, and facilitating skill development.
• Promote process improvements and help tackle complex technical challenges.
• Foster a unified, purpose‑driven team approach to problem‑solving and delivery.

Requirements

• You must live within the DC, MD, VA area.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Candidate must be able to obtain CBP Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree plus 8+ years experience or equivalent education and experience.
• Minimum of 5 years' hands‑on experience building applications with Java and related frameworks.
• At least 3 years of experience providing technical leadership or mentoring within a development team.
• 1+ year of front‑end development experience using JavaScript or frameworks such as Angular.
• 3 or more years working on Agile teams using tools like Jira to manage user stories and team workflows.
• Experience working in an automated build and deployment environment with tools like Git, Jenkins, Kubernetes, or SonarQube.
• Proficient with Spring and Spring Boot for enterprise application development.
• Familiarity with ORM frameworks such as Hibernate or MyBatis.
• Skilled in writing unit tests to support automated test coverage.
• Experience developing applications that interface with relational database systems such as Postgres, DB2 or Oracle.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
• Proven ability to turn business needs and functional requirements into reliable, maintainable code.
• Strong collaboration skills, with a focus on meeting or surpassing client expectations through teamwork.
• Hands‑on experience building and deploying applications in cloud environments, such as AWS.
• Familiarity with Java Messaging Service (JMS) technologies.
• Background working on projects within the federal government space.