Federal - Deputy Software Development Lead
Alexandria, VA

Job Description

Organization: Accenture Federal Services

Location: Washington, DC

Accenture Federal Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture LLP, is a U.S. company with offices in Arlington, Virginia. Accenture's federal business has served every cabinet-level department and 30 of the largest federal organizations. Accenture Federal Services transforms bold ideas into breakthrough outcomes for clients at defense, intelligence, public safety, civilian and military health organizations.

We believe that great outcomes are everything. It's what drives us to turn bold ideas into breakthrough solutions. By combining digital technologies with what works across the world's leading businesses, we use agile approaches to help clients solve their toughest problems fast-the first time. So, you can deliver what matters most.

Count on us to help you embrace new ways of working, building for change and put customers at the core. A wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture, we bring over 30 years of experience serving the federal government, including every cabinet-level department. Our 7,200 dedicated colleagues and change makers work with our clients at the heart of the nation's priorities in defense, intel, public safety, health and civilian to help you make a difference for the people you employ, serve and protect.

* Partner with our Program Manager on consultative approaches that impact and drive client initiatives and priorities.


* Regularly check code into our continuous integration pipeline based on Git and Jenkins to incrementally build our overall system and get immediate feedback on build performance


* Develop and expand unit and integration tests which will be automatically run by the build pipeline for developer feedback using JUnit and other tools like Geb, Spock, Serenity, Cucumber and Selenium


* Assists in resolving production support problems. Develops and suggests alternative approaches to resolving problems.


* Ability to lead a small team of 8-9 developers


* Provide hands-on technical and best practice direction to project team and oversee the work of team members to ensure they meet or exceed performance standards and enforce standards and best practices


* Work with Product Owner to ensure the Acceptance Criteria is defined with clear pass/fail requirements that state the conditions of satisfaction


* Ensure code base is testable, efficient, maintainable, and remains compliant with the various standards


* Conduct a light-weight internal code review to validate compliance test-ability, and maintainability at each sprint


* Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that requires the individual to simultaneously manage several tasks, while paying attention to detail and quality


* Mentor junior members on the team


* Proactively communicates with the development and management teams to anticipate configuration management issues/processes


* Proactively seeks opportunities to implement improvements to internal team processes


* Contributes to an atmosphere of cross-functional teamwork within the organizations Agile project life-cycle"