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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Development Manager - **Company:** Maximus, Inc. - **Location:** New Orleans, LA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $165,000.0 - $185,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** HTML, Java (Programming Language), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Automation of Tests, Unit Testing, Code Generation, Software Quality, Xbrl, JSON, Microsoft Office, OpenShift, Scrum Methodology, Requirements Traceability, Scaled Agile Framework, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Api Design, Microservices - **Published:** July 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/useeb2e2efb73bf5e404c4625fd34a1439/eaa ## About the Role Bachelor's Degree. - 7+ years of Direct Management Experience of developers. - Experienced in guiding and supporting developers across several Scrum teams to ensure alignment with Agile/Scrum practices and delivery goals. - Proficient in Microsoft suite of tools. - Ability to think quickly, act swiftly, and adapt. - Demonstrated confidence in tasking peers and providing high-impact briefings to senior leadership and organizational stakeholders. - Proven experience developing, coordinating, and delivering formal contract deliverables from inception to completion, leveraging input from capability SMEs across the program. - Experience working with Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Developers, and Quality Assurance engineers while ensuring they are complying with program processes and norms. - Experience working in a scaled Agile environment. - Agile Certifications/Trainings. Preferred Skills and Qualifications: - Experienced in developing solutions using Java, XBRL, and HTML, and building APIs leveraging JSON and REST service architectures. - Provides strategic development leadership and end-to-end process ownership for multiple Scrum teams, ensuring alignment with Agile practices and delivery goals. - Experienced in modernizing legacy applications by implementing microservice architecture patterns, enabling improved scalability, maintainability, and deployment efficiency. - Prior experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) or similar SAFe leadership role. - Familiarity with Red Hat OpenShift platform. - Experience managing IT/Software projects at a financial agency. - Consulting or Systems Integration experience to a federal department or agency in support of a high visibility system/application. - SAFe Certifications/Trainings. - Hands on experience with AI/ML powered tools to accelerate code generation, unit test creation, and overall development efficiency. #techjobs #clearance #veteransPage #LI-remote ## Description Serve as a trusted advisor to client leadership by offering strategic recommendations and responsive support. - Work with the program manager and stake holders to define the technological roadmap. - Serve as main point of contact for Development teams for cross-team collaboration within the Program, removing communication stovepipes and enhancing awareness of work in progress. - Promote collaborative problem solving for challenges encountered during enhancements and maintenance efforts. - Enable a relentless improvement mindset for development teams and program-wide through engaged promotion of intellectual curiosity, clarity on empowered contributors across all team members, active listening, and embracing change. - Support the maturity of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), including aligning ART activities with client objectives and fostering collaboration across teams. - Encourage organizational alignment of the ART (Agile Release Train) with client strategy and goals, and business objectives. - Foster collaboration among teams to facilitate flow of work, remove impediments and help to escalate issues through problem-solving actions. - Enable internal engagement in Innovation and Planning opportunities to promote continuous improvement. - Help manage risks, constraints, and dependencies that impact the ART's goals. - Identify and track metrics that enable data-driven decisions and improvements. - Facilitate Agile Release Train (ART) events like Program Increment (PI) Planning and ART Syncs. - Provide back-up support to Scrum Masters and assist in fulfilling their duties. - Maintain weekly communication with the client's Product Manager and Product Owners to ensure teams are operating in lockstep with one another and recognize risk areas that can be mitigated as a group - Manage, monitor and report on the capacity, utilization, and forecasting of the development teams to determine a development and release schedule that maximizes throughput. - Manage, monitor and report on the capacity, utilization and forecast to optimize delivery schedules. - Promotes a strategy with actionable, monitorable steps to enhance code quality, automation testing, adopt test driven development, shift security left, and strengthen requirements traceability. 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