SkyePoint Decisions is a leading Cybersecurity Architecture and Engineering, Critical Infrastructure and Operations, and Applications Development and Maintenance IT service provider headquartered in Dulles, Virginia with operations across the U.S. We provide innovative enterprise-wide solutions as well as targeted services addressing the complex challenges faced by our federal government clients. Our focus is on enabling our clients to deliver their mission most efficiently and effectively – anytime, anywhere, securely. We combine technical expertise, mission awareness, and an empowered workforce to produce meaningful results.
This is a contingent position based upon contract win.
SkyePoint Decisions is seeking a Development and Automation Lead to join our team supporting the DoED FSA program. This position is contingent on contract win.
The Development & Automation Lead provides technical leadership for the design, development, integration, automation, testing, deployment, and sustainment of secure software and automation capabilities supporting Federal Student Aid (FSA). The role leads implementation of FSA-approved software development lifecycle (SDLC), DevSecOps, CI/CD, security, testing, configuration management, and release practices while driving automation across development, cybersecurity, data, workflow, and authorization activities.
The position works closely with Government stakeholders and multidisciplinary technical teams to translate business, cybersecurity, and technical requirements into secure, scalable, maintainable, and automated solutions.
This is a remote position.
Responsibilities:
Provide technical leadership for software development and automation activities supporting FSA systems and cybersecurity capabilities.
Lead the design, development, integration, testing, deployment, operation, and sustainment of secure software and automated solutions.
Achieve reporting and transparency metrics, to include compliance reporting, dashboard accuracy, and communication responsiveness.
Achieve customer and stakeholder experience metrics, including stakeholder satisfaction, governance participation, and speed of access request fulfillment.
Translate Government mission, functional, technical, and cybersecurity requirements into actionable development and automation priorities.
Lead implementation of secure SDLC and DevSecOps practices across development and automation efforts.
Establish and maintain development, secure-coding, automated-testing, configuration-management, documentation, and release standards.
Drive automation of repetitive development, security, compliance, testing, deployment, evidence-collection, and operational processes.
Lead CI/CD implementation and improvement, including automated builds, testing, security checks, quality gates, configuration management, and deployment.
Integrate unit, integration, end-to-end, security, compliance, and infrastructure testing into delivery workflows. FSA development/automation materials explicitly identify these testing activities as part of automated delivery workflows.
Coordinate software developers, DevSecOps/platform engineers, integration engineers, security automation engineers, data engineers, QA personnel, cybersecurity staff, architects, and Government stakeholders.
Guide integration of applications and automation solutions with APIs, data sources, cybersecurity tools, repositories, cloud platforms, and enterprise services.
Lead implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration automation, pipeline-as-code, reusable automation components, and cloud deployment patterns where appropriate.
Incorporate cybersecurity findings and vulnerabilities into development priorities and automated remediation workflows.
Ensure application security capabilities such as SAST, DAST, Software Composition Analysis (SCA), dependency/secrets scanning, and other security testing are appropriately incorporated into development workflows.
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