Sr. Software Engineer

Washington, DC
Full Time
Experienced
cFocus Software is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to join our program supporting USDOT in Washington, DC. This role has remote capabilities. This position requires an active Secret clearance

Qualifications:
  • Masters or Bachelors degree in Business Admministration, Project Management, Computer Science, or a related field
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, or AWS Certified Developer Associate certification
  • Possess extensive knowledge of programming languages, software development methodologies, and best practices
Duties:
  • Responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining software systems and applications.
  • Lead development teams, provide technical guidance, and contribute to architectural decisions.
  • Develop and maintain web template pages in adherence to DOT policies and standards including
  • Section 508 compliance and WCAG 2.0 AA specifications.
  • Offer consultation and advice for new processes/changes to the current system to create efficiencies and improve overall website performance.
  • Maintain the platform Drupal CORE module as released into the Drupal community.
  • Maintain updates to the Drupal contrib modules as released into the Drupal community.
  • Monitor and track Drupal module updates so as to comply with the latest version.
  • General platform performance improvements and related tasks.
  • Maintenance activities pertaining to WCAG 2.0 AA accessibility standards platform wide.
  • General platform security upgrades and implementation of new controls in consultation with the OCIO’s Chief Information Security Office (CISO).
  • Bug fixing of priority, newly introduced, and pre-existing functionality.
  • Conduct functional and automated testing; resolve associated errors.
  • Coordination with DOT ITSS on infrastructure changes, to include development submission, and maintenance of change requests.
  • Coordination with third party vendors such as, but not limited to, Akamai, Acquia, and two factor authentication services.
  • Maintenance of site platform Personal Identity Verification (PIV) integration.
  • Provide support for Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and Google Cloud (including Maps APIs and Services), assist in generating ad hoc reports, and implement established best practices for platform usage and performance optimization
  • Provide DigitalGov Search support and implement maintain search engine optimization (SEO) best practices whenever applicable on the platform.
  • Preliminary requirements discovery meetings conducted in coordination with the Integrator Contractor
  • Development of initial high level and eventually detailed approaches and scope
  • Information architecture to improve external user experience (e.g., find content in minimal clicks, device agnostic, remove obsolete or low-value content)
  • Utilize the federal standards of plain language
  • Creative design to align with the Departmental branding, as well as adherence to policies and requirements for all federal websites and digital services
  • System requirements gathering
  • Translation of complex business requirements into system work flows to create a visually appealing, simplified, user experience while upholding federal government security controls
  • Specific functional development and module configuration to leverage platform shared templates/content types
  • Testing (automated and functional)
  • Migration of content and content strategy
  • User acceptance training
  • Go-live support
  • Post-launch support for users and system bug fixing with Integrator oversight
  • Leverage search engine optimization (SEO) methods with meta-data built into system templates
  • Templates/Content Types – Updates to existing templates/content types and expertise relating to new templates/content types.
  • Design and Information Architecture (IA) – New and updates to the design and IA of the platform websites; includes design review with customer prior to implementation
  • Search – Search engine optimization activities to increase the effectiveness of DOT search – for example, related queries and key matches. Implementation of metadata, tagging and organizing content to drive customers directly to information.
  • Menu – Updates relating to the menu or the information architecture that drives the menu creation.
  • Workflow – Expertise in updating, creating, or deleting workflows or portions of workflows to meet and improve business needs of DOT customers.
  • Mobile Web – Updating and developing the content and templates/content types to render on all tablets and mobile devices.
  • Social Media – Continue to refine the integration of social media into the Drupal Environment as requested by the COR/TCOR.
  • Capability and Module Development – Respond to customer requirements from OCIO and the modes to integrate modules into the DOT Drupal Environment, or any future CMS environments adopted by DOT during the period of performance of this BPA
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