Lead Application Developer
Peraton · Suitland, MD, US
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## Lead Application Developer (Hybrid) — Suitland, MD ### About Peraton Peraton is a next-generation national security company delivering trusted, differentiated solutions and enterprise IT to protect our nation and allies. The company operates across land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace, supporting mission-critical federal operations. ### Responsibilities - Lead the design, development, modernization, and integration of enterprise applications supporting mission-critical federal operations - Drive delivery across modern cloud-native environments while partnering with architects, engineers, product teams, and external partners - Ensure applications are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned to evolving mission and compliance requirements - Refactor legacy and COTS applications into modular, microservices-based architectures using open-source technologies - Design, develop, and integrate APIs, event-driven services, and messaging-based systems - Develop secure, scalable, and highly available applications for high-volume, near real-time processing - Contribute to AI/ML-enabled application workflows (model integration and deployment support) - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, deployment, and security validation - Implement DevSecOps best practices (secure SDLC, automated scanning, compliance validation) - Support system-of-systems integration across multiple applications, contractors, and technical teams - Ensure alignment with federal security/compliance requirements (NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA, Zero Trust, MFA, and ATO support processes) - Design and support data ingestion, ETL pipelines, transformation, analytics, and dissemination capabilities - Troubleshoot complex issues across application, infrastructure, integration, and data layers - Lead code reviews, mentor developers, and enforce engineering standards and best practices - Collaborate in Agile/Scrum and SAFe delivery environments ### Qualifications **Basic Qualifications** - Bachelors + 12 years, **or** Associates + 14 years, **or** High School diploma/equivalent + 16 years - Must be a **U.S. Citizen** with ability to obtain a **Public Trust** - 12+ years of experience in software development, application engineering, or enterprise application modernization - Demonstrated experience leading application development teams for large-scale federal IT modernization/transformation - Proven experience modernizing enterprise-grade, cloud-native applications - Experience modernizing legacy/COTS into open-source, microservices-based architectures - Experience with APIs, distributed integrations, event-driven architectures, and messaging systems - Experience implementing DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines in secure environments - Experience with containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) - Experience with data integration/ingestion, ETL, data transformation, and dissemination workflows - Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including **Terraform** - Working knowledge of federal security/compliance requirements (NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA, Zero Trust, MFA, ATO) - Experience supporting highly available, scalable, resilient applications (including performance optimization) - Experience in Agile/Scrum and SAFe environments **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience supporting large-scale federal statistical, Census, or other mission-critical modernization programs - Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) - Experience integrating AI/ML capa
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