Cloud Application Technical Lead

Cloud Application Technical Lead (Remote)

ECS is seeking a senior Cloud Application Technical Lead to join our team remotely. This role is crucial for supporting cloud-related application and infrastructure migration and modernization efforts for the NIH NIAID Enabling and Advancing Technologies (NEAT) program. You will contribute to the development, support, and maintenance of NIH enterprise applications managed by the Software Engineering Branch.

Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract win.

As a Cloud Application Technical Lead, you will leverage approved development technologies to solve complex business problems, architect development frameworks, integrate web services, and review developer source code.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture

• Provide technical leadership in identifying, designing, and implementing web and mobile application standards.
• Investigate and recommend technical alternatives.
• Design, maintain, and implement Azure resources, including virtual networks, storage solutions, compute instances, databases, and application services.
• Assist stakeholders with cost-benefit analyses for migrating on-premises solutions to the cloud.
• Create secure and scalable mobile system architectures that integrate with existing systems and partner applications.
• Ensure applications are FISMA compliant and recommend/implement security features to meet Federal, HHS, NIH, and NIAID security requirements.
• Evaluate and employ software tools for developing and deploying mobile software using a 'write-once, run-anywhere' model.

Cloud Migration

• Offer advisory and technical support for application and infrastructure modernization efforts in the cloud.
• Architect and troubleshoot high availability and resilient solutions using methods such as clustering and failover.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and development teams to leverage cloud services and capabilities (e.g., auto-scaling, serverless architectures, micro-services, containerization).
• Conduct proof-of-concept and pilot projects to evaluate cloud migration and modernization approaches.
• Assist in market research for cloud platforms and tools.

Agile Delivery

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure project alignment with business objectives.
• Prepare and present Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC) stage gate deliverables and presentations to review boards.
• Conduct and participate in formal and informal reviews throughout the EPLC life cycle.
• Enable Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for web and mobile applications.
• Ensure compliance with quality assurance standards, guidelines, and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• Minimum 10+ years of hands-on software development experience designing and developing enterprise applications using the Microsoft Tech Stack.
• 5+ years of experience leading technical teams in Agile environments.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience building large, scalable web and mobile-based applications using React.
• Experience with the .NET Platform (.NET 8) with JavaScript, React, and Vue for the front end.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server databases for data storage.
• Experience installing, configuring, and integrating custom solutions, COTS, GOTS, and FOSS into larger service and system collections.