Lead Developer

Job Family: Software Development & Support Travel Required: Up to 10% Clearance Required: Ability to Obtain Public Trust What You Will Do: As a Lead Developer, you will provide technical leadership for teams supporting Grants.gov application operations, maintenance, enhancements, forms development, chatbot capabilities, system-to-system integrations, release planning, deployment, testing, documentation, and production support. You will work closely with federal stakeholders, architects, product owners, scrum masters, developers, testers, operations staff, security teams, IV&V partners, helpdesk partners, and modernization teams to design, build, troubleshoot, and deploy reliable, secure, scalable, and user-centered solutions. You will help ensure development activities align with HHS EPLC expectations, security and privacy requirements, application performance needs, and the operational continuity requirements of a public-facing federal shared service. - Lead application development, maintenance, and enhancement activities for Grants.gov, including web-based capabilities, system-to-system interfaces, forms processing, chatbot-related updates, and operational support features. - Provide hands-on technical leadership to developers by guiding solution design, coding standards, code reviews, troubleshooting, defect resolution, refactoring, and secure development practices. - Design, develop, test, and deploy approved application enhancements in accordance with HHS Enterprise Performance Life Cycle expectations and program change management processes. - Support corrective and preventative maintenance for the Grants.gov application and chatbot to sustain availability, performance, usability, and uninterrupted service through rolling deployment practices. - Develop and maintain Grants.gov forms and related processing capabilities, including validation, browser compatibility, Section 508 support, XML and PDF generation, and compatibility with current and prior form viewer versions. - Support S2S technical coordination, including certificate coordination, diagnostics, error log review, interface troubleshooting, and issue resolution for partner organizations. - Coordinate with operations, database, cloud, security, and application platform teams on deployments, configuration changes, performance tuning, monitoring, incident response, and production support needs. - Support testing activities, including unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, defect triage, IV&V coordination, release readiness, and validation of production changes. - Update and maintain technical documentation, development artifacts, system documentation, release notes, online help updates, troubleshooting guides, and other materials needed to operate and maintain the system. - Analyze production issues, helpdesk escalations, stuck submissions, broken links, performance concerns, and application defects; recommend and implement timely fixes and long-term improvements. - Partner with architects and modernization teams to identify technical improvements, reduce technical debt, improve maintainability, support cost-efficiency goals, and align legacy Grants.gov capabilities with future-state modernization objectives. - Communicate technical status, risks, design considerations, alternatives, and recommendations clearly to technical teams, federal stakeholders, and non-technical audiences. What You Will Need: - Bachelor's degree. Additional Four (4) years of exp needed in lieu of degree. - 8+ years of experience in software development, application maintenance, systems integration, or technology modernization, including experience leading development teams or workstreams. - Demonstrated experience designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise applications in complex, mission-critical environments. - Experience supporting application operations and maintenance, defect resolution, release planning, depl