[Remote] Software Development Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Maximus is looking for a results-oriented Software Development Manager to join their team managing multiple delivery teams while shaping clients’ technological and operational futures. The role involves serving as a trusted advisor, promoting Agile practices, and facilitating collaboration among teams to enhance project delivery and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to client leadership by offering strategic recommendations and responsive support
• Work with the program manager and stake holders to define the technological roadmap
• Serve as main point of contact for Development teams for cross-team collaboration within the Program, removing communication stovepipes and enhancing awareness of work in progress
• Promote collaborative problem solving for challenges encountered during enhancements and maintenance efforts
• Enable a relentless improvement mindset for development teams and program-wide through engaged promotion of intellectual curiosity, clarity on empowered contributors across all team members, active listening, and embracing change
• Support the maturity of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), including aligning ART activities with client objectives and fostering collaboration across teams
• Encourage organizational alignment of the ART (Agile Release Train) with client strategy and goals, and business objectives
• Foster collaboration among teams to facilitate flow of work, remove impediments and help to escalate issues through problem-solving actions
• Enable internal engagement in Innovation and Planning opportunities to promote continuous improvement
• Help manage risks, constraints, and dependencies that impact the ART’s goals
• Identify and track metrics that enable data-driven decisions and improvements
• Facilitate Agile Release Train (ART) events like Program Increment (PI) Planning and ART Syncs
• Provide back-up support to Scrum Masters and assist in fulfilling their duties
• Maintain weekly communication with the client’s Product Manager and Product Owners to ensure teams are operating in lockstep with one another and recognize risk areas that can be mitigated as a group
• Manage, monitor and report on the capacity, utilization, and forecasting of the development teams to determine a development and release schedule that maximizes throughput
• Manage, monitor and report on the capacity, utilization and forecast to optimize delivery schedules
• Promotes a strategy with actionable, monitorable steps to enhance code quality, automation testing, adopt test driven development, shift security left, and strengthen requirements traceability

Skills

• Due to federal requirements only US Citizens who do not possess dual citizenship with another country may be considered. Selected candidates will be required to successfully complete a government-sponsored clearance process for position of public trust prior to start
• Bachelor's Degree
• 7+ years of Direct Management Experience of developers
• Experienced in guiding and supporting developers across several Scrum teams to ensure alignment with Agile/Scrum practices and delivery goals
• Proficient in Microsoft suite of tools
• Ability to think quickly, act swiftly, and adapt
• Demonstrated confidence in tasking peers and providing high‑impact briefings to senior leadership and organizational stakeholders
• Proven experience developing, coordinating, and delivering formal contract deliverables from inception to completion, leveraging input from capability SMEs across the program
• Experience working with Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Developers, and Quality Assurance engineers while ensuring they are complying with program processes and norms
• Experience working in a scaled Agile environment
• Agile Certifications/Trainings
• Experienced in developing solutions using Java, XBRL, and HTML, and building APIs leveraging JSON and REST service architectures
• Provides strategic development leadership and end‑to‑end process ownership for multiple Scrum teams, ensuring alignment with Agile practices and delivery goals
• Experienced in modernizing legacy applications by implementing microservice architecture patterns, enabling improved scalability, maintainability, and deployment efficiency
• Prior experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) or similar SAFe leadership role
• Familiarity with Red Hat OpenShift platform
• Experience managing IT/Software projects at a financial agency
• Consulting or Systems Integration experience to a federal department or agency in support of a high visibility system/application
• SAFe Certifications/Trainings
• Hands on experience with AI/ML powered tools to accelerate code generation, unit test creation, and overall development efficiency

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• A retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Short- and long-term incentives
• Program-specific awards
• Reasonable accommodations to individuals requiring assistance during any phase of the employment process due to a disability, medical condition, or physical or mental impairment

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