Software Development Manager - Peraton

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary development leadership authority, managing a team of direct employees and subcontractors while coordinating closely with the Operations Manager, DevOps Lead and Release Manager to ensure seamless, high-quality delivery across all development workstreams.
• Directly manage 5–10 full-time employees and provide day-to-day oversight and direction for 5–10 subcontractor personnel across integrated development workstreams.
• Handle staffing decisions, onboarding, mentoring, and performance evaluations for direct reports.
• Coordinate closely with the Release Manager, Operations Manager and DevOps Lead to align development priorities, resolve cross-team dependencies, and ensure cohesive delivery.
• Maintain active, working knowledge of each team member's current assignments, progress, and blockers
• Partner with other team managers and technical leads to drive cross-functional collaboration across DevSecOps, data engineering, analytics, and platform modernization efforts.
• Lead development activities across a complex, cloud-hosted system integrating software and hardware components, including AWS infrastructure, COTS products, data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks), and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins).
• Own and enforce technical quality standards, code review processes, and Definition of Done (DoD) compliance across all development teams.
• Actively participate in and support SAFe ceremonies including PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Scrum of Scrums, and retrospectives.
• Identify, track, and mitigate development risks; escalate blockers and cross-team dependencies to the Release Train Engineer (RTE) and Program Manager as appropriate.
• Support platform modernization initiatives including Snowflake/Databricks migration, AngularJS-to-Angular UI upgrades, containerization (Docker/AWS ECS), and CI/CD pipeline enhancements.
• Ensure development deliverables meet required performance standards and defined SLAs.
• Drive architecture discussions, design choices, and coding standards to ensure the team is building the right product the right way.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience, may have supervisory or lead experience
• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree or PhD required.
• Proven experience managing software and/or systems development teams, including direct oversight of both employees and subcontractor personnel.
• Demonstrated experience working within a SAFe Agile environment, including participation in PI Planning, sprint execution, and cross-team coordination.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud environments, including infrastructure management, containerization (Docker, AWS ECS), and cloud-hosted application development.
• Experience with Snowflake and Databricks as data platforms, i