Ardent is hiring a
Technical Lead

Summary

Join Ardent as a Technical Lead to participate in large-scale software development efforts within the Department of Homeland Security. This is a hybrid/remote position located in the Washington, D.C. Metro area.

Requirements

• Customs and Border Protection Background Investigation (CBP BI)
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Business Administration, Software Engineering/Computer Science or related field; Master’s degree preferred
• Minimum of 10 years performing an IT team leadership role
• Demonstrated experience leading teams in an Agile Scrum environment, creating user stories, and executing sprint cycles and retrospectives
• Experience with Atlassian Jira (or comparable Agile tracking platform) and Confluence
• Demonstrated experience with industry-leading analytics tools such as: Tableau Enterprise Server and/or PowerBI
• Demonstrated experience with Informatica PowerCenter or comparable platforms
• Demonstrated experience designing and building database or data warehouse solutions using Oracle
• Experience using Python or Jupiter Notebooks
• Strong English oral and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Participate and lead - as members of Government Agile Teams that develop and sustain software in an agile and secured fashion using the prescribed agile practices following the government-specified sprint and release cadences
• Recommend points at which Sprints dedicated to architectural issues are appropriate
• Participate actively in architectural review activities
• Ensure that Technical Staff has sufficient expertise and experience to implement the prescribed agile practices
• Act as the backup Agile Team Lead when the Agile Team Lead is not available
• Understand and digest business and product requirements from stakeholders to prepare for the design and development of analytics solutions
• Provide technical design, development, and implementation of large projects and/or major software products and solutions
• Assist in defining architecture requirements and implementation for the design and development of data warehousing, data analytics, and ETL solutions
• Develop strategic roadmaps that align software development efforts to mission outcomes
• Lead an integrated team of subject matter experts and IT specialists
• Serve as the primary technical resource to the development and customer teams
• Act as a team leader in prioritizing group tasks, determining individual assignments, and reviewing the work of junior developers and technical software engineers and developers
• Provide technical guidance to developers following industry best practices and customer architectural guidelines and requirements
• Interact with customers regarding meeting customer objectives,  requirements, problem-solving, and support
• Work with minimal supervision/guidance