Technical Lead

Why do you need to choose between doing important work and having a fulfilling life? At Ardent, we have both. Ardent employees are committed to solving our customers’ most difficult problems—and we are committed to the well-being, personal goals, and professional development of our employees. We are “All In.” We put forth our strongest effort possible to get the mission accomplished and we do it together. We respect the skills and experience you bring to the Ardent team. And we provide a rewarding environment to help you succeed. 

We offer highly competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, and an exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth. A collective service mindset underpins our work, and a shared camaraderie to serve clients, colleagues, and our communities sets us apart. Our full commitment to being "All In" for our employees and our clients is not just our approach, it is our standard. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, choose Ardent and make a difference with us. 

Ardent is seeking a Technical Lead to join our team. 

This is a hybrid/remote position located in the Washington, D.C. Metro area.  

Position Description:

Ardent is seeking a Technical Lead to participate in large-scale software development efforts within the Department of Homeland Security including (but not limited to):

• Implementing features and enhancements for existing systems
• Implementing ETL pipelines and scripts to transform data and enforce data integrity
• Integrating data pipelines into data warehouses supporting large volumes of data
• Designing and implementing reporting and analytics solutions for geospatial data.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate and lead - as members of Government Agile Teams that develop and sustain software in an agile and secured fashion using the prescribed agile practices following the government-specified sprint and release cadences.
• Recommend points at which Sprints dedicated to architectural issues are appropriate.
• Participate actively in architectural review activities.
• Ensure that Technical Staff has sufficient expertise and experience to implement the prescribed agile practices.
• Act as the backup Agile Team Lead when the Agile Team Lead is not available.
• Understand and digest business and product requirements from stakeholders to prepare for the design and development of analytics solutions.
• Provide technical design, development, and implementation of large projects and/or major software products and solutions.
• Assist in defining architecture requirements and implementation for the design and development of data warehousing, data analytics, and ETL solutions.
• Develop strategic roadmaps that align software development efforts to mission outcomes.
• Lead an integrated team of subject matter experts and IT specialists.
• Serve as the primary technical resource to the development and customer teams.
• Act as a team leader in prioritizing group tasks, determining individual assignments, and reviewing the work of junior developers and technical software engineers and developers.
• Provide technical guidance to developers following industry best practices and customer architectural guidelines and requirements.
• Interact with customers regarding meeting customer objectives,  requirements, problem-solving, and support.
• Work with minimal supervision/guidance.

Requirements:

• Customs and Border Protection Background Investigation (CBP BI).
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Business Administration, Software Engineering/Computer Science or related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years performing an IT team leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams in an Agile Scrum environment, creating user stories, and executing sprint cycles and retrospectives.
• Experience with Atlassian Jira (or comparable Agile tracking platform) and Confluence.
• Demonstrated experience with industry-leading analytics tools such as: Tableau Enterprise Server and/or PowerBI.
• Demonstrated experience with Informatica PowerCenter or comparable platforms.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building database or data warehouse solutions using Oracle.
• Experience using Python or Jupiter Notebooks.
• Strong English oral and written communication skills.

Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be willing to undergo the government-issued background investigation process.

Ardent is an equal-opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.