Software Development Manager

Maximus TCS (Technology and Consulting Services) Internal Job Profile Code : TCS
196, T4, Band 7

• 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 elevate 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.
• Promotes a strategy with actionable, monitorable steps to enhance code quality, automation testing, adopt test‑driven development, shift security left, and strengthen requirements traceability.

• 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 Open Shift platform.
• Experience managing IT / Software projects at a financial agency.
• Consulting or Systems Integration…