A Square Group - Technical Lead - Senior at A Square Group

LOCATION:  Hybrid DMV 

Company Description:

ASG is a Minority- and Woman-Owned, Physician-Owned small business with over 15 years of experience in federal government contracting. We deliver a wide range of technology services, including software development, mobile apps, AI/ML, analytics, data science, big data, DevSecOps, digital transformation, cloud, and cybersecurity. ASG is CMMI Level 3 certified and holds ISO 9001:2015, 20000-1:2018, and 27001:2022 certifications.  

Job Description:

The Senior Technical Lead will oversee ASG’s multi-team, outcome-driven DevSecOps delivery for the client's decommissioning, integration, and development owning technical strategy, architecture, quality, and reliability across an AWS-hosted, open-source-forward ecosystem with daily, zero-downtime releases.   

What You Will Do: 

• 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.  
• Architecture & Modernization 
• 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.  
• DevSecOps & SRE Excellence 
• 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.  
• Security & Compliance Leadership 
• 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.  
• Observability & Platform Operations 
• Leads monitoring/logging/alerting strategy; ensures real-time performance visibility and enterprise-grade telemetry across applications and dev infrastructure.  
• Backlog & Cadence Governance 
• Partners with aligned mission group to align delivery to system roadmaps, release backlogs, reliability/usage metrics (Maestro Jira + Confluence); maintains daily deployment cadence.  
• Collaboration & Integration 
• Coordinates with government, multiple vendors, UXD/BA/SM ops teams; unifies disparate work into a coherent operational baseline and continuous delivery environment.  
• Data & EDMO/OPQ Support 
• Ensures data governance, reference data integrity, and business-process/data-mapping best practices; supports application strategy, planning and partner engagements.  
• Quality & Documentation 
• Maintains architecture, schema, CI/CD, 508, and Release Readiness artifacts; runs QMS/QASP practices and share test assets.  
• Other duties as assigned. 

What We Need: 

• 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.  

Certifications (strongly 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.  

Clearance 

Ability to meet the DHS/USCIS suitability. 

Even Better 

• 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.  

Additional Information

ASG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact us at [email protected].

Perks

- Healthcare Benefits
- Life Insurance
- Disability Coverage
- Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Employee Referral Bonus
- Education Assistance
- Learning and Development Resources