Software Development Project Manager

Come join our talented team that delivers Application Operations, Maintenance, and Modernization services while sustaining mission-critical grants management systems for a federal agency. Our team consists of application developers, business and requirements analysts, project managers, and database developers and administrators. We are embarking upon exciting initiatives to modernize multiple legacy on-premise systems. We are performing systems engineering tradeoff studies to evaluate and eventually implement alternative state-of-the-art technologies while we implement ongoing minor system fixes and enhancements. Our vision is to migrate all of the heterogenous on-premise host platforms into an integrated, shared services Cloud computing environment.

Summary of Major Job Functions

• Non-technical activities: Serves as a Project Manager for an Agile Software Development Team. Responsible for coordinating all team development, testing, and release deployment activities. Develops software release schedules, guides sprint planning and development, serves as the primary point-of-contact with the stakeholder community, creates project packages and status briefings, and leads all Integrated Product Team (IPT) meetings with stakeholder involvement.
• Technical activities: Provides technical leadership in the operation, maintenance, modernization, and enhancement of grants management systems to achieve mission objectives. Performs the technical tasks described below as the lead of task teams of 3 -7 individuals performing the tasks described for one or more grants systems. Specific responsibilities include: 

Operations and Maintenance: Under the direction of the Program Manager, provides:

• Operations support to provide services necessary to continue ongoing operations of existing Grants Program Information Technology (IT) systems.
• Maintenance support to provide services, including application bug fixes, fixes to reports that are inaccurate, correcting business rules that contain bad logic, inconsistencies caused by regulatory changes to existing programs, and/or assistance in completion of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and infrastructure or software upgrades as identified by the client.

Modernization and Enhancement: Under the direction of the Program Manager, performs project management functions in support of:

• Software modernization and enhancement efforts following standard SDLC/Agile processes to improve system functionality to meet management objectives
• Requirements analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment of changes and enhancements to existing systems in order to:

1. Improve system capability and/or performance modifying, enhancing, or adding capabilities
2. Implement new or enhanced functionality to satisfy legislative mandates, new regulatory requirements and governance, or federal financial management policies and procedures
3. Perform re-platforming of system(s) to reduce the technical debt and ensure that the technical stack remains current and operational.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Oversees the development, testing, deployment, maintenance, and enhancement of Java applications as the Project Manager of an Agile Development team
• Supports Cybersecurity compliance initiatives
• Develops project management related deliverables and reviews/approves technical deliverables

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business, Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, or similar discipline. Substitution of experience for education may be made where four (4) years of additional experience will be equivalent to a four (4) year degree.
• Minimum of 5 years Agile Software Development experience
• Minimum of 2 years demonstrated experience in the Job Functions described above, including leading small development teams
• Expertise in J2EE technologies, including Java EE, Struts Framework, JSP, Ants and related tools
• Expertise in Agile development methodologies

Desired Skills and Qualifications

• Full stack development skills
• Strong teamwork skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with federal grants programs
• Scrum Master experience

Certifications - At least one of the professional certifications:

• PMP Certification
• Relevant Java programming language certification(s)

Additional Information

• In order to meet the clearance requirements for this opportunity, candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.
• All candidates will be subject to a complete background check to include, but not limited to Criminal History, Education Verification, Professional Certification Verification, Verification of Previous Employment and Credit History.
• Public Trust background investigations can take approximately four to eight weeks and requires fingerprinting.

Other Information

• The salary for this position is $90,000 - $124,000 annually
• For information on SFI's benefits please visit http://www.spatialfront.com/pages/career.html
• This is a full-time W2 position. 
• Please no agencies, third parties, or corp-to-corp.
• Spatial Front Inc. 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 status as a protected veteran.
• Spatial Front Inc. participates in E-Verify.