Leads a team in the adherence of planning, policies, practices, and manages personnel while overseeing a development project or group of developers. Responsible for personnel management including mentoring of junior team members, daily supervision and assigning of tasks, and annual employee evaluations of team members. Oversees the completion of development projects.

• Overall responsibility for leading the program, department, or functional area as designated. Oversees, directs, and mentors subordinate staff; communicates job expectations and enforces organizational policies, procedures and core values; responsible for recruiting staff, approving timecards, and conducting performance reviews and disciplinary measures.
• Modifies and creates special purpose software and ensures systems efficiency and integrity.
• Provides direction on the preparation of functional specifications from which programs will be written and oversees the design, coding, debugging, and documenting of programs.
• Ensures the team is maintaining compliance with standards and conventions in the development of programs.
• Develops required specifications for complex problems and trains team members on problem solving of complex issues.
• Oversees the establishment of requirements for a product from inception to conclusion. Ensures all phases of development are followed to include testing, debugging, and refining of the software to produce the required product.
• Reviews and edits required documentation, including block diagrams, logic flow charts and software program documentation. Provides feedback to developers to further their growth and development in the documentation area.
• Provides guidance on the creation of coded unit tests and ensures the Testers/Information Assurance team provide the necessary feedback to fix any issues identified.
• Establishes best practices, policies, and processes and ensures adherence by the development team.
• Evaluates systems designs and change requests to ensure overall program architecture remains technically feasible and is scalable while meeting industry best practices and standards.

• US Citizen with Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field preferred or equivalent relevant experience
• 15 years of experience with programming or web development activities; 0-2 years of management experience., * Must be detail oriented, as well as able to work well with clients.
• Ability to analyze systems requirements and design specifications.
• Ability to prepare and review required documentation, including project plans and software/development program documentation
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage and lead others, providing mentorship to junior team members.
• Must be capable of working in an environment that is demanding, sometimes stressful, and requires independent thinking, problem resolution, and responsible actions with minimal direct oversight by senior management.
• Experience in information system design, including application programming on large-scale case management systems and the development of complex software to satisfy design objectives.
• Applies knowledge of technologies, applications, methodologies, processes and tools to support a client, project or entity.
• Must be able to provide direction during all phases of software development and train team members through the various phases using Java, C#, SQL, Javascript, or other programming language.
• Demonstrates and utilizes best programming standards and practices in a professional capacity.

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