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Our focus is on enabling our clients to deliver their mission most efficiently and effectively - anytime, anywhere, securely. We combine technical expertise, mission awareness, and an empowered workforce to produce meaningful results.\nThis is a contingent position based upon contract win.\nSkyePoint Decisions is seeking a Development and Automation Lead to join our team supporting the DoED FSA program. This position is contingent on contract win.\nThe Development & Automation Lead provides technical leadership for the design, development, integration, automation, testing, deployment, and sustainment of secure software and automation capabilities supporting Federal Student Aid (FSA). The role leads implementation of FSA-approved software development lifecycle (SDLC), DevSecOps, CI/CD, security, testing, configuration management, and release practices while driving automation across development, cybersecurity, data, workflow, and authorization activities. \nThe position works closely with Government stakeholders and multidisciplinary technical teams to translate business, cybersecurity, and technical requirements into secure, scalable, maintainable, and automated solutions.\nThis is a remote position. \nResponsibilities:\nProvide technical leadership for software development and automation activities supporting FSA systems and cybersecurity capabilities. \nLead the design, development, integration, testing, deployment, operation, and sustainment of secure software and automated solutions. \nAchieve reporting and transparency metrics, to include compliance reporting, dashboard accuracy, and communication responsiveness. \nAchieve customer and stakeholder experience metrics, including stakeholder satisfaction, governance participation, and speed of access request fulfillment. \nTranslate Government mission, functional, technical, and cybersecurity requirements into actionable development and automation priorities. \nLead implementation of secure SDLC and DevSecOps practices across development and automation efforts. \nEstablish and maintain development, secure-coding, automated-testing, configuration-management, documentation, and release standards. \nDrive automation of repetitive development, security, compliance, testing, deployment, evidence-collection, and operational processes. \nLead CI/CD implementation and improvement, including automated builds, testing, security checks, quality gates, configuration management, and deployment. \nIntegrate unit, integration, end-to-end, security, compliance, and infrastructure testing into delivery workflows. FSA development/automation materials explicitly identify these testing activities as part of automated delivery workflows. \nCoordinate software developers, DevSecOps/platform engineers, integration engineers, security automation engineers, data engineers, QA personnel, cybersecurity staff, architects, and Government stakeholders. \nGuide integration of applications and automation solutions with APIs, data sources, cybersecurity tools, repositories, cloud platforms, and enterprise services. \nLead implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration automation, pipeline-as-code, reusable automation components, and cloud deployment patterns where appropriate. \nIncorporate cybersecurity findings and vulnerabilities into development priorities and automated remediation workflows. \nEnsure application security capabilities such as SAST, DAST, Software Composition Analysis (SCA), dependency/secrets scanning, and other security testing are appropriately incorporated into development workflows. \nLead technical reviews of code, architecture decisions, automation logic, testing results, documentation, and releases. \nIdentify technical risks, integration dependencies, security concerns, performance issues, and delivery impediments and coordinate their resolution. \nMaintain technical artifacts such as architecture decisions, runbooks, standard operating procedures, release documentation, automation libraries, and configuration documentation. \nSupport technical demonstrations, backlog refinement, release planning, defect resolution, and continuous improvement. \nMentor developers and engineers and provide technical direction on software engineering, automation, DevSecOps, and secure-development practices. \nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent relevant experience may substitute where permitted. \n10+ years of relevant software development, engineering, DevSecOps, automation, or related technical experience. \nSenior industry professional certification such as a CISSP or equivalent. \nDemonstrated experience leading complex software development, automation, or engineering initiatives. \nExperience designing, developing, integrating, testing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise software solutions. \nStrong knowledge of secure SDLC and DevSecOps principles. \nDemonstrated experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, source-code management, automated testing, configuration management, and deployment/release automation. \nExperience using Git-based software-development practices and automated delivery workflows. \nExperience implementing Infrastructure as Code and/or configuration automation. \nExperience integrating automated security testing and vulnerability-management activities into software-development pipelines. \nExperience with APIs, enterprise integrations, distributed applications, databases, and cloud-based solutions. \nProficiency with modern programming and/or scripting languages appropriate to enterprise automation. \nExperience translating business and technical requirements into maintainable software and automation solutions. \nStrong technical leadership, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills. \nAbility to communicate complex technical concepts to Government, engineering, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders. \nAbility to obtain a 6c Public Trust. At least an active Secret clearance is required.\nU.S. Citizenship required.\nCompensation:\nSalary Range: TBD\nThe SkyePoint Decisions salary range for this position is a general guideline only. It represents an estimated range for this position and is just one piece of our total compensation package. \nSalary at SkyePoint is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, work schedule, the candidate’s combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability, market data and business considerations.\nIn addition to a competitive salary, SkyePoint offers benefits including a certification incentive program, PTO, floating federal holiday options, several insurance options including HMO and High Deductible plans with Health Savings Accounts [HSAs], Flex Spending Accounts [FSAs], Full Dental Plans, Vision, ST/LT Disability, Life Insurance, and 401k matched.\nWhat We Can Offer You:\nAt SkyePoint, we go B.I.G. (beginning in GRATITUDE) by recognizing all we have and giving back to our employees, families, and communities. It instills a positive mindset that permeates all we do. By beginning in gratitude, SkyePoint can continue to spread living in gratitude each day.\nGreat Benefits: Several insurance options including HMO and High Deductible plans with Health Savings Accounts [HSAs], Flex Spending Accounts [FSAs], Full Dental Plans, ST/LT Disability, Life Insurance, floating federal holiday options, and 401k matched\nCertificate Incentive Program: To promote professional development, we recognize and reward employees who obtain new certifications aligned with business needs.\nFlexible Work Environment\nSkyePoint Decisions is an established ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified small business and appraised at CMMI Level 3 for Services and Development. We possess a common vision of excellence and foster a collaborative team culture built upon individual performance and accountability. We invest in our people and systems to create value for our clients. It is the SkyePoint Way. 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