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Head of Front-End Development, CODE PA
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is seeking a Head of Front End Development to help lead Pennsylvania’s newly created Commonwealth’s Office of Digital Experience Pennsylvania (CODE PA). We’re looking for a creative and driven technologist who is ready to push the boundaries of what government can do, and who is motivated to reimagine services that make people’s lives better.
Description of Work:
The Head of Front End Development is an integral part of the Commonwealth’s Office of Digital Experience Pennsylvania (CODE PA). This position will:
Lead development of web, desktop, and mobile front-end experiences that are secure, fast, and interoperate with existing systems.
Build, develop and facilitate a high-performing engineering team, ensuring products meet the needs of constituents.
Advise and contribute to architecture, code review, documentation, tests, style fixes, accessibility, performance, and security.
Define and communicate engineering standards for the CODE PA team, aligning with peer engineering teams, and provide the training and resources necessary for the team to meet those standards.
Make build, buy, or borrow decisions and consider trade-offs.
Develop a strong, trusted relationship with stakeholders to understand their challenges and constraints in a unique, public-sector environment. Advocate for and explain modern software development best practices—such as agile, open source, DevSecOps, and user-centered design principles so that teammates, stakeholders, and government partners understand their value.
Provide strategic leadership. Represent your team as part of senior leadership discussions and communicate information back to the team. Promote transparency in how decisions are made.
Participate in constructive discussions, openly share knowledge, and demonstrate the value of others’ contributions.
Support your team in working as members of a cross-functional, multidisciplinary, team.
Provide coaching, mentorship, and professional development opportunities. Support employee well-being.
Incorporate equity and inclusion into training, speaking events, and experiential learning opportunities.
Energize and motivate the team by recognizing successes and learning from failures.
Conduct and document employee performance plans, mid-year, and end-of-year performance evaluations.
Work Schedule & Additional Information:
Hybrid work-from-home options are available for this position. Candidates must be residents of Pennsylvania or willing to relocate to the Commonwealth if hired, and must be available to attend in-person meetings in Harrisburg on a regular basis.
Required Experience, Training & Eligibility:
Qualifications
Minimum Experience and Training Requirements:
Four or more years of front-end engineering experience, with a focus on building and growing products, platforms, or services at scale.
Experience developing or architecting complex modern web applications, backend services, or cloud infrastructure using approaches or tools such as test-driven development, continuous integration and deployment, modern version control systems such as github or gitlab, or dependency management tools.
Experience with web technologies, such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and commonly used web frameworks, such as React or Node.js.
Familiarity with mobile app development and app stores.
Experience with source control, automated testing, continuous integration and deployment, and peer review.
Knowledge of software security best practices.
Additional Requirements:
Experience building alignment with stakeholders.
Experience providing technical expertise on end-to-end product, platform, or service development to build digital services that are easy to use and maintain.
Experience managing individuals.
Experience with iterative or agile development methodologies.
Experience communicating complex information or ideas in an effective manner to foster understanding and acceptance of findings and recommendations.
You must be able to perform the essential functions of the job.
Head of Back-End Development, CODE PA
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is seeking a Head of Back End Development to help lead Pennsylvania’s newly created Commonwealth’s Office of Digital Experience Pennsylvania (CODE PA). We’re looking for a creative and driven technologist who is ready to push the boundaries of what government can do, and who is motivated to reimagine services that make people’s lives better.
Description of Work:
The Head of Back End Development is an integral part of the Commonwealth’s Office of Digital Experience Pennsylvania (CODE PA). This position will:
Lead development of new services and APIs that are secure, fast, and interoperate with existing systems.
Build, develop and facilitate a high-performing engineering team, ensuring products meet the needs of constituents.
Advise and contribute to architecture, code review, documentation, tests, style fixes, accessibility, performance, and security.
Define and communicate engineering standards for the CODE PA team, aligning with peer engineering teams, and provide the training and resources necessary for the team to meet those standards.
Make build, buy, or borrow decisions and consider trade-offs.
Develop a strong, trusted relationship with stakeholders to understand their challenges and constraints in a unique, public-sector environment. Advocate for and explain modern software development best practices—such as agile, open source, DevSecOps, and user-centered design principles so that teammates, stakeholders, and government partners understand their value.
Provide strategic leadership. Represent your team as part of senior leadership discussions and communicate information back to the team. Promote transparency in how decisions are made.
Participate in constructive discussions, openly share knowledge, and demonstrate the value of others’ contributions.
Support your team in working as members of a cross-functional, multidisciplinary, team.
Provide coaching, mentorship, and professional development opportunities. Support employee well-being.
Incorporate equity and inclusion into training, speaking events, and experiential learning opportunities.
Energize and motivate the team by recognizing successes and learning from failures.
Conduct and document employee performance plans, mid-year, and end-of-year performance evaluations.
Work Schedule & Additional Information:
Hybrid work-from-home options are available for this position. Candidates must be residents of Pennsylvania or willing to relocate to the Commonwealth if hired, and must be available to attend in-person meetings in Harrisburg on a regular basis.
Required Experience, Training & Eligibility: Qualifications
Minimum Experience and Training Requirements:
Four or more years of back-end engineering experience, with a focus on building and growing products, platforms, or services at scale.
Experience developing or architecting complex modern web applications, backend services, or cloud infrastructure using approaches or tools such as test-driven development, continuous integration and deployment, modern version control systems such as github or gitlab, or dependency management tools.
Programming experience with languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, or Go.
Familiarity with mobile app development platforms.
Experience with source control, automated testing, continuous integration and deployment, and peer review.
Knowledge of software security best practices.
Additional Requirements:
Experience building alignment with stakeholders.
Experience providing technical expertise on end-to-end product, platform, or service development to build digital services that are easy to use and maintain.
Experience managing individuals.
Experience with iterative or agile development methodologies.
Experience communicating complex information or ideas in an effective manner to foster understanding and acceptance of findings and recommendations.
You must be able to perform the essential functions of the job.
Ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements
Head of User Experience, CODE PA
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is seeking a Head of User Experience to help lead Pennsylvania’s newly created Commonwealth’s Office of Digital Experience Pennsylvania (CODE PA). We’re looking for someone ready to push the boundaries of what government can do, and is motivated by reimagining services to make people’s lives better.
Description of Work:
The Head of User Experience is an integral part of the Commonwealth’s Office of Digital Experience Pennsylvania (CODE PA). This position will:
Build and lead a high-performing UX team, including design, research and content strategy.
Own the full end-to-end user experience. Lead the design of products that meet the needs of constituents; lead design sprints, facilitate design strategy and establish design systems and standards. Establish and facilitate regular design critiques.
Drive cross-functional alignment and progress, directly managing a team of designers, researchers and content strategists working across products.
Develop strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders in order to understand their challenges and constraints in a unique, public-sector environment; represent the voice of the user in influencing product direction.
Provide strategic leadership. Represent your team as part of senior leadership discussions and communicate information back to the team. Promote transparency in how decisions are made.
Participate in constructive discussions, openly share knowledge, and demonstrate the value of others’ contributions.
Support your team in working as members of a cross-functional, multidisciplinary, team.
Provide coaching, mentorship, and professional development opportunities. Support employee well-being.
Incorporate equity and inclusion into training, speaking events, and experiential learning opportunities.
Energize and motivate the team by recognizing successes and learning from failures.
Conduct and document employee performance plans, mid-year, and end-of-year performance evaluations.
Work Schedule & Additional Information:
Hybrid work-from-home options are available for this position. Candidates must be residents of Pennsylvania or willing to relocate to the Commonwealth if hired, and must be available to attend in-person meetings in Harrisburg on a regular basis.
Required Experience, Training & Eligibility:
Qualifications
Minimum Experience & Training Requirements:
Four or more years of UX experience, with a focus on building and designing products, platforms, or services at scale.
Experience shipping successful product design based on research.
Experience across the full UX design spectrum, from ideation through execution, including information architecture, low-fidelity design, high-fidelity design, design systems, accessibility prototyping and user research.
Additional Requirements:
Experience building alignment with stakeholders.
Experience leading design for a product, platform, or service.
Experience managing individuals.
Experience with iterative or agile development methodologies.
Experience communicating complex information or ideas in an effective manner to foster understanding and acceptance of findings and recommendations.
You must be able to perform the essential functions of the job.
Head of Quality, Analytics, and Infrastructure, CODE PA
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is seeking a Head of Quality, Analytics, and Infrastructure to help lead Pennsylvania’s newly created Commonwealth’s Office of Digital Experience Pennsylvania (CODE PA). We’re looking for a dedicated and driven technologist who is ready to push the boundaries of what government can do, and who is motivated to reimagine services that make people’s lives better.
Description of Work:
The Head of Quality, Analytics, and Infrastructure is an integral part of the Commonwealth’s Office of Digital Experience Pennsylvania (CODE PA). This position will:
Own end-to-end quality of Pennsylvania’s digital products and services.
Build test plans, test infrastructure, and ensure automated testing runs reliably in continuous integration.
Collaborate closely with peer teams to share development of different tiers of testing across the stack.
Build analytics into the product that can provide data and insights to Product Management, User Experience, and Development teams.
Build and lead a high-performing team of developers, data scientists, and QA engineers, ensuring products meet the needs of constituents.
Advise and contribute to architecture, code review, documentation, tests, style fixes, accessibility, performance, and security.
Develop a strong, trusted relationship with stakeholders to understand their challenges and constraints in a unique, public-sector environment. Advocate for and explain modern software development best practices—such as agile, open source, DevSecOps, and user-centered design principles so that teammates, stakeholders, and government partners understand their value.
Provide strategic leadership. Represent your team as part of senior leadership discussions and communicate information back to the team. Promote transparency in how decisions are made.
Participate in constructive discussions, openly share knowledge, and demonstrate the value of others’ contributions.
Support your team in working as members of a cross-functional, multidisciplinary, team.
Provide coaching, mentorship, and professional development opportunities. Support employee well-being.
Incorporate equity and inclusion into training, speaking events, and experiential learning opportunities.
Energize and motivate the team by recognizing successes and learning from failures.
Conduct and document employee performance plans, mid-year, and end-of-year performance evaluations.
Work Schedule & Additional Information:
Hybrid work-from-home options are available for this position. Candidates must be residents of Pennsylvania or willing to relocate to the Commonwealth if hired, and must be available to attend in-person meetings in Harrisburg on a regular basis.
Required Experience, Training & Eligibility:
Qualifications
Minimum Experience and Training Requirements:
Four or more years of leading a quality assurance team, with a focus on ensuring reliability, security, and performance at scale.
Experience developing data analytics and/or making data-driven engineering decisions.
Experience maintaining test infrastructure.
Experience with source control, automated testing, continuous integration and deployment, and peer review.
Knowledge of software security best practices.
Additional Requirements:
Experience building alignment with stakeholders.
Experience providing technical expertise on end-to-end product, platform, or service development to build digital services that are easy to use and maintain.
Experience managing individuals.
Experience with iterative or agile development methodologies.
Experience communicating complex information or ideas in an effective manner to foster understanding and acceptance of findings and recommendations.
You must be able to perform the essential functions of the job.
Ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements
Technical Lead, General
Role Overview:
The Technical Lead will be a linchpin in our organization, bridging the gap between conceptual ideas and technical implementation. This role oversees the technical aspects of a software team by making architectural and design decisions, guiding team members in technical matters, and supervising system modifications. As a strategic thinker with a hands-on approach, you will guide teams through the development lifecycle while ensuring that projects align with our technical vision and standards.
Core Responsibilities:
Technical Strategy: Understand business objectives and translate them into technical requirements and architecture.
Team Guidance: Mentor and lead development teams, ensuring they follow best practices and adhere to company standards.
Code Review: Conduct thorough reviews of code, ensuring quality, functionality, and scalability.
Problem Solving: Address and resolve complex technical challenges, ensuring timely and effective solutions.
Project Oversight: Collaborate with project managers and stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of products while managing technical risks.
Innovation: Stay updated with emerging technologies and trends, integrating them when beneficial to our objectives.
Communication: Serve as a key technical liaison between multiple teams, ensuring alignment and clarity.
Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of excellence and continuous learning within the technical team.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Master’s degree preferred.
Demonstrated experience in leading technical teams and projects.
Proficient in [specific languages/tools/platforms relevant to your organization, e.g., Java, React, AWS].
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities.
Passionate about fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.
What We Offer:
Competitive compensation package.
Comprehensive benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance.
Generous vacation policy and flexible work arrangements.
Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.
Engaging work environment with a focus on innovation and agility.
Application Process: Interested candidates are invited to submit a resume, a cover letter detailing relevant experience, and references to [email address]. Please note that applications without a cover letter may not be considered.
[Your Company/Organization Name] is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are dedicated to fostering an inclusive workspace for all staff members.
Product Manager, TTS
Role summary
TTS is hiring for the role of GS-15 Product Managers to support our Data & Analytics Portfolio. Several business units within TTS are hiring for this role. Product Managers are crucial to TTS significantly improving our products, platforms, and services. This is an opportunity to make a huge difference in the lives of the public and other federal agencies. This page contains a high-level summary of the roles we are trying to fill.
These opportunities are located in the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Technology Transformation Services (TTS). TTS applies modern methodologies and technologies to improve the lives of the public and public servants. We help agencies make their services more accessible, efficient, and effective with modern applications, platforms, processes, personnel, and software solutions.
TTS is looking for talented product managers who will help our partner agencies deliver better digital services to the public. You’ll lead cross-functional teams to solve large, complex problems and deliver user-centered products using agile methodologies and modern software development practices.
TTS is looking for product managers in both client services and product development roles, including:
Leading cross-functional development teams to own and grow existing, in-market products
Joining cross-functional teams to partner with other government agencies and help them deliver mission-critical software
Partnering with government agencies evolve their culture and establish sustainable best practices for product development
These roles will be a great fit for you if you are a:
Strategic thinker who is comfortable defining a compelling vision and designing a measurable strategy to achieve that vision
Decisive leader who knows how to motivate cross-functional teams to build the right thing
Strong executor that is able to deliver results to agencies and the public
Our ideal candidates will be equally excited about sticky technical issues and intricate human ones. The strongest candidates will have a background working on cross-functional, multidisciplinary teams that deliver digital products and services in an incremental, user-focused environment.
If you are interested in any or all of these roles, you should apply. You may be matched with multiple teams across TTS during the interview process based on your skills, experience, and interests.
Key objectives
1. Build or steward the product vision and lead end-to-end product development. You are an experienced product manager who can unite vision and execution to lead an interdisciplinary team in delivering the right value to the right people. You’re skilled at defining a meaningful end goal to galvanize your team, whether that means generating a product vision and strategy with your team or helping agency partners articulate and focus their vision and strategy.
Establish a vision and ensure all team members and stakeholders have a shared understanding of product objectives, goals, and metrics
Analyze market demand and market fit, do competitive analysis, and guide build vs. buy or reuse approaches
Create a product strategy and roadmap and develop a communications strategy supporting product goals
Identify and proactively monitor and address product risks
Lead or facilitate a cross-functional team of researchers, designers, and engineers to ensure the right product is delivered to the right audience
Work with the team to set and meet quality standards for any product you build
Use evidence (user research, analytics, and other metrics) to make product decisions, ask “why” a lot, and recognize the difference between “we can’t do that because of bureaucracy” and “we can’t do that because of the law”
Energize and motivate the team by recognizing successes and learning from failures
Ensure that products comply with federal regulations such as the 21st Century IDEA Act, the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA), and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
2. Support agency partners in delivering results to the public. As a product manager at TTS, you’ll uphold a modern product development mindset and make sure every project you touch is set up for sustained long-term success. As part of that, you’ll share your expertise and experience with your teammates and stakeholders in order to ensure that you are not a single point of success.
Help partners understand how to deliver value, rather than features, to their users
Help teammates and stakeholders navigate complex bureaucratic relationships to bring stakeholders together around a common product vision and strategy
Advocate for and explain agile, open source, and user-centered principles so that teammates, stakeholders, and government partners understand the value these practices bring
Improve the government’s product management capacity by coaching and mentoring more junior product managers
Work with partners to establish relationships with their security, operations, and IT teams that will help sustain the product in the long term
Work with teammates and stakeholders to develop communications strategies to sustain the product in the short and long term
3. Achieve excellence in customer-centric technical leadership. You’ll meet customer expectations, along with personal and organizational goals. You’ll produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risk.
Hold yourself and your team accountable for measurable, high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results
Demonstrate your credibility in your area of expertise, deliver high-quality work, and accept responsibility for mistakes
Meet the needs of internal and external customers
Make well-informed, effective, and timely decisions
Identify and analyze problems in a constructive manner
Explain technical issues and concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
4. Lead in your program area(s). While the entire team will have and continually enhance core expertise in technology and organizational modernization, each team member will also further hone one or more Focus Areas that contribute to the collective, cross-functional capabilities within TTS’s Data & Analytics Portfolio.
Data.gov is the United States government’s open data website. It provides access to datasets published by agencies across the federal government. Data.gov is intended to provide access to government open data to the public, achieve agency missions, drive innovation, fuel economic activity, and uphold the ideals of an open and transparent government. As an Open Data Product Manager for Data.gov, your responsibilities will include:
Developing and maintaining a product strategy for Data.gov; ensuring alignment with broader federal open data efforts, the OPEN Government Data Act, and agency objectives and priorities.
Overseeing the product design process, working closely with UX/UI Designers to create intuitive and user-friendly features for Data.gov, and managing the design and delivery of features such as data visualization tools, dashboards, and reporting systems.
Establishing and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders; ensuring effective communication of product updates, progress, and performance. Represent Data.gov in interagency efforts addressing issues such as metadata schemas applicable to federal data.
Feedback Analytics Program develops and manages government-wide services that collect and report quantitative and qualitative customer feedback to aid service improvement and decision-making. This includes methods to evaluate progress toward achieving customer experience goals and inform continual improvements to service design and delivery. As a Product Manager for Feedback Analytics, your responsibilities will include:
Developing and maintaining a product strategy for Feedback Analytics products including the use cases served by Touchpoints, ensuring alignment with broader federal feedback and public experience initiatives, the 21st Century Digital Experience Act, and agency objectives and priorities.
Overseeing the product design process, working closely with UX/UI Designers to create intuitive and user-friendly features for Feedback Analytics, and managing the design and delivery of features such as data visualization tools, dashboards, and reporting systems.
Establishing and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders; ensuring effective communication of product updates, progress, and performance. Represent Feedback Analytics in interagency efforts addressing issues such as metadata schemas applicable to federal data.
Qualifications
Provide as much detail as possible on your resume so that we can evaluate your previous experience. Follow our guidance on creating a federal style resume.
Failure to provide required information may result in disqualification.
For each job on your resume, provide:
The exact dates you held each job (from month/year to month/year or “present”)
Number of hours per week you worked (if part time)
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
To qualify, you must have one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower GS-grade (or equivalent). Specialized experience for this role is defined as:
Experience developing and implementing a product strategy that aligns with strategic objectives and user needs
Experience leading cross-functional teams of software engineers, data analysts, user experience/user interface designers to develop and deliver features
Experience overseeing product design and working with designers to create user-friendly tools, dashboards and reporting systems
Experience utilizing web and data analytics and data management tools to inform product strategy and monitor performance
Experience developing and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders to represent and advance program interests
Product Owner, General
Product Owner job description
The Product Owner has an entrepreneurial mindset for distilling business value and goals into roadmaps and refined product backlogs. This role will involve hands-on managing of all stages of the product life cycle, including timeline scoping and measuring progress during development. As an experienced technologist, you will utilize your knowledge of agile best practices to drive the development of software and other relevant web technologies.
Objectives of this role
Lead team scrums to define product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities, and communicate with stakeholders throughout the project
Collaborate with internal and external contacts to analyze needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals
Work closely with product managers and business teams to create and maintain product backlog according to business value or ROI
Remain up to date on trends and best practices for agile project management
Responsibilities
Plan and prioritize product development and product feature backlog
Develop detailed product feature specifications and ensure they’re clearly understood by relevant teams
Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work aligns with product strategy
Mitigate roadblocks to achieving sprint/release goals
Lead the product-release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities
Serve as product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge and answering questions
Required skills and qualifications
Five or more years of experience in product development and/or product management
In-depth knowledge of agile methodology for project management
Understanding of business value related to features and functions
Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills
Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to effectively manage conflicting needs of stakeholders
Preferred skills and qualifications
Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in related discipline
Proficiency with applicable project management tools and technology
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