About the role

Role Overview

Aretum is seeking a Software Team Manager to support a large-scale federal technology modernization program. You will be embedded full-time within a single Agile Scrum team, serving as the technical lead for developers, frontend engineers, and testers. This is a hands-on technical leadership role (not a purely managerial position), including code work, design discussions, peer reviews, and production support.

Responsibilities

Act as technical lead for one Agile Scrum team, providing day-to-day technical direction.
Perform functional systems analysis and provide design, integration, and implementation guidance for moderately complex problems.
Translate requirements/design specs from the federal Product Owner and Business Analysts into well-formed technical work; ensure stories are technically sound before sprint commitment.
Make architecture-level decisions within the team’s scope; escalate broader program questions to the Solutions Architect (and Cloud Architect for cross-team topics).
Drive code quality by enforcing peer code review discipline.
Own and enforce the team’s Definition of Done, including code review, testing, security scans, accessibility validation, and documentation.
Maintain quality metrics, including:
- Test coverage targets (minimum 90%, with branch coverage enabled)
- SonarQube quality gate compliance (Bugs, Code Smells, Vulnerabilities)
Support GitLab CI/CD pipelines (build/test/scan/deploy) and ensure deployments are fully automated.
Partner with the Scrum Master and Business Analyst on roadmap maintenance for the team’s Epic area, including technical level-of-effort estimates, resourcing inputs, and milestone reprioritization.
Participate in SAFe ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, Retrospective, Backlog Refinement) and bring technical input to estimation, dependencies, and acceptance.
Support PI Planning preparation by ensuring features are technically ready (partial text provided).

Requirements

Public Trust eligibility required.
Ability to work in a federal environment and comply with safeguarding/compliance requirements; may handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).
Experience leading technical delivery within an Agile Scrum / SAFe environment.
Strong technical expertise to guide developers and frontend engineers and ensure technical soundness of backlog items.

Nice-to-haves (implied by described expectations)

Familiarity with security reviews and supporting change management via the federal change advisory process.
Experience meeting engineering quality standards such as accessibility validation, automated pipelines, test coverage, and SonarQube gates.

About Aretum

Aretum is a mission-driven organization providing innovative, technology-enabled solutions across defense, civilian, and homeland security sectors. It works at the intersection of strategy, technology, and transformation and invests in employee growth and collaboration. The role supports large-scale federal technology modernization programs.