Guidehouse Inc.
Lead Software Developers
US - VA, McLean
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About the role
- All communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or guidehouse@myworkday.com.
- Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse.
- Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event.
Responsibilities
- The Lead will guide a development team in enhancing and refactoring legacy applications, building cloud-hosted services with modern languages and frameworks, and delivering production-ready AI capabilities that improve information access, automate workflows, and augment user decision-making.
- The role combines direct software development with ownership of technical design, work decomposition, engineering standards, code quality, team mentoring, technical risk management, and delivery readiness.
- The Lead Software Developer will translate architecture and data-governance standards into working software and guide developers in applying those standards consistently.
- This individual will lead technical design sessions, define implementation approaches and interface contracts, assign and coordinate technical work, conduct code and design reviews, support estimation and planning, and serve as the primary technical point of contact for assigned delivery efforts.
- The Lead will collaborate with Solution Architects, Product Owners, application and data teams, vendors, security teams, and Federal stakeholders to deliver incremental modernization without disrupting ongoing operations.
- Lead solution design, technical discovery, estimation, work decomposition, and implementation planning for complex modernization features and releases.
- Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews
- Enhance and refactor legacy applications and databases while developing new APIs, services, automation, and cloud-native components using appropriate modern languages and frameworks, including Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#/.NET, Go, or comparable technologies.
- Implement phased modernization patterns that allow modern and legacy capabilities to operate concurrently without disrupting mission operations.
- Build and maintain an integrated data layer that provides consistent, governed access to shared data through APIs, events, reusable data services, canonical models, and transformation components.
Requirements
- Travel Required:
- Clearance Required:
- Ability to Obtain Public Trust
Compensation
- Care.com annual membership
Benefits
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Parental Leave
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
- Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.
- Benefits include:
- Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
Company info
- We are seeking a Lead Software Developer with AI engineering capabilities to provide hands-on technical leadership for the phased, low-risk modernization of a large-scale GrantSolutions application portfolio.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer-Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.
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