Lead Developer

Navigant Consulting
Mc Lean, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 8/28/2024 CLOSED ON 10/6/2024

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Developer position at Navigant Consulting?

Job Details

Job Family :
Digital Consulting

Travel Required :
Up to 10%

Clearance Required :
Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do :

Development leader who has strong tech leadership and hands-on development skills in converting business and functional requirements into enterprise applications. While this role is deeply involved in the technical aspects, he or she also has a hand in managerial and coordination tasks ensuring that the technical vision aligns with the project's goals and that the development team operates at peak efficiency across the entire software development life cycle. This individual needs to provide planning, estimation, scheduling, prioritization, and coordination of technical activities related to development with multiple stakeholders. Accountable to business and technology management for end-to-end application scoping, planning, development, and delivery that meets and exceeds various standards of the US federal government.

Detailed duties may include:
  • Leads cross-functional development to bring prototypes to life, providing constructive feedback to optimize implementation and usability.
  • Sets an example for team members of how to reliably deliver on commitments.
  • Embraces emerging standards while promoting best practices and communicating trade-offs.
  • Implements, maintains, and supports software integrations.
  • Provides solutions to technical problems of varying scope and complexity.
  • Collaborates with the Account team to determine priorities and risks associated with projects.
  • Works with product stakeholders to understand business requirements and refine actionable technical tasks with the support of the team.
  • Ensures all relevant processes, procedures and product documentation is up to date.
  • Follows continuous integration/continuous development processes, peer review, coding style, and development conventions.
  • Actively participates in daily team standups, the Agile process, peer code reviews, and occasional pair programming.
  • Collaborates with other developers on planning and working use cases, features, and tasks.
  • Mentors team members to help them grow in their careers while reinforcing our core values


What You Will Need :
  • Minimum FIVE (5) years experience in software development languages and frameworks (such as, but not limited to, MuleSoft, Java, Angular, microservices).
  • Experience with portable environment creation or containerization technologies, such as Docker, Apache Mesos, or Vagrant
  • Experience designing and developing solu ons with Java Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) in an Agile Software Development environment.
  • Experience designing and developing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) with Representation State Transfer (REST), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).
  • Extensive experience with JBoss Developer (RHCJD) or Oracle Certified Professional, Java Enterprise Edition (EE).
  • Extensive experience with Oracle Database 12c (or greater).
  • Experience implementing the MVC Development Methodology (Model/View/Controller).
  • Proven success as a technical team leader.
  • Experience working closely with senior stakeholders to understand business requirements and help translate these into technical requirements for the development team.
  • Experience planning and documenting technical specifications for features or system design.
  • Experience designing, building, and configuring applications to meet business process and application requirements.
  • Experience directing the development team in the design, development, coding, testing, and debugging of applications.
  • Experience writing testable, scalable, and efficient code and leading code reviews.
  • Experience mentoring junior team members and ensuring they adhere to determining software quality standards.

What Would Be Nice To Have :
  • Bachelor's degree


What We Offer:

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:
  • Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
  • Parental Leave
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
  • Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
  • 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
  • Employee Referral Program
  • Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
  • Care.com annual membership
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • 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


About Guidehouse
Guidehouse is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

If you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1- or via email at . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.

Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
Territory Sales Director
Lead Science -
Rockville, MD
​​​​​​​Lead .Net Developer
Axxum Technologies -
Mclean, VA
Lead Developer (SEVIS)
Dynamis, Inc. -
Washington, DC

For Employer
Looking for Real-time Job Posting Salary Data?
Keep a pulse on the job market with advanced job matching technology.
If your compensation planning software is too rigid to deploy winning incentive strategies, it’s time to find an adaptable solution. Compensation Planning
Enhance your organization's compensation strategy with salary data sets that HR and team managers can use to pay your staff right. Surveys & Data Sets

What is the career path for a Lead Developer?

Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs on the Lead Developer career path by checking the boxes next to the positions that interest you.
Income Estimation: 
$110,783 - $140,453
Income Estimation: 
$130,352 - $166,099
Income Estimation: 
$142,078 - $184,123
Income Estimation: 
$102,328 - $137,582
Income Estimation: 
$153,019 - $201,912
Income Estimation: 
$69,624 - $88,610
Income Estimation: 
$88,145 - $114,532
Income Estimation: 
$90,934 - $121,296
Income Estimation: 
$90,521 - $120,704
Income Estimation: 
$91,280 - $117,929
Income Estimation: 
$88,145 - $114,532
Income Estimation: 
$110,783 - $140,453
Income Estimation: 
$116,945 - $152,136
Income Estimation: 
$109,711 - $144,041
Income Estimation: 
$114,239 - $144,312
Income Estimation: 
$130,352 - $166,099
Income Estimation: 
$148,050 - $191,503
Income Estimation: 
$169,804 - $219,985
Income Estimation: 
$114,313 - $163,687
Income Estimation: 
$153,019 - $201,912
This job has expired.
View Core, Job Family, and Industry Job Skills and Competency Data for more than 15,000 Job Titles Skills Library

Not the job you're looking for? Here are some other Lead Developer jobs in the Mc Lean, VA area that may be a better fit.

Lead developer

Steneral Consulting, Mc Lean, VA

Lead Developer

Agile Defense, Suitland, MD