Lead Developer

N-tier, layered, and microservices architecture patterns, including fluency in core design patterns such as repository, unit-of-work, dependency injection (Unity, ASP.NET Core DI), and service decomposition strategies. Evaluate and plan the transition of existing monolithic services to containerized microservices, including defining API contracts, managing inter-service communication, and establishing CI/CD pipelines for container-based deployments.

Job Title: Lead Developer
Duration: 12+ Months Contract (Strong possibility of extension).            
Location: Phoenix, AZ –Hybrid Position

Job Summary

• The Lead Developer mentors developers, manages a small development team, and provides advanced technical analysis and recommendations.
• The Lead Developer analyzes and evaluates information systems and modifies them to meet customer and business needs.
• Responsibilities include designing, developing, coding/programming, debugging, installing, documenting, troubleshooting, testing, and maintaining information systems.
• This role includes supervisory duties such as approving timesheets, conducting performance evaluations, and holding regular one-on-one meetings with direct reports.

Responsibilities

• Essential Job Tasks (This is not an all-inclusive list of all job duties that may be required;employees will be required to perform other related duties as assigned.)
• Interacts in a team setting with co-workers including other programmers, database administrators and business analysts.
• Develops SSRS and Power BI reports of high complexity and scope, while adhering to documented development standards.
• Works independently to develop solutions for complex business and technical problems.
• Supports deployment of applications into production and maintain after release.
• Coordinates with other team members to brainstorm and create new processes for the Judicial Branch to use in day-to-day operations.
• Focuses continually on developing business knowledge and product/feature expertise.
• Utilizes source control to label, package, and deploy applications utilizing best practices procedures/techniques.
• Follows industry practices of analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance/production support of custom applications software.
• Tests developed applications for accuracy, efficiency, and stability.
• Coordinates with other team members to assist on a variety of other development needs and practices.
• Mentors and trains less experienced staff members, conducts performance evaluations, approves timesheets, and holds regular one-on-one meetings with direct reports.
• Assists on customer support issues resolving any application issues and/or errors.

 
Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading or managing small development teams in an Agile environment, including task assignment, sprint planning, timesheet approval, performance evaluations, and code review.
• Two (2) or more years of hands-on Angular/TypeScript development experience.
• Experience with Angular framework upgrades and legacy modernization (e.G., AngularJS to Angular, .NET Framework to .NET Core).
• Hands-on experience with Docker containerization of .NET applications, including Dockerfile authoring, Docker Compose for local development, and deploying to container orchestration platforms.
• Experience with enterprise integration patterns including message queuing (IBM MQ), SOAP/WSDL web service consumption, and real-time communication (SignalR).
• Full-stack development experience in a fast-paced, Agile government or court technology environment with multi-generation codebases.
• Experience with reporting technologies such as SSRS and Power BI.
• Experience using agentic AI coding tools and workflows to enhance development productivity and code quality.
• Background in court, justice, or public-sector application development.

 
Technical Skills / Technologies
Knowledge Of

• Relational database design, stored procedure development, and query optimization using SQL Server, including multi-schema architectures and stored procedure naming/versioning standards.
• N-tier, layered, and microservices architecture patterns, including fluency in core design patterns such as repository, unit-of-work, dependency injection (Unity, ASP.NET Core DI), and service decomposition strategies.
• C#, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API 2, and ASP.NET Core, including REST API design, controller routing, and middleware pipelines.
• Angular (v8+) and TypeScript, including component architecture, services, RxJS observables, and framework upgrade planning.
• AngularJS (1.X) legacy maintenance and migration strategies for transitioning to modern Angular.
• Entity Framework, AutoMapper, and data access strategies including Dapper and stored procedure orchestration layers.
• JWT-based authentication, cross-application single sign-on, API gateway patterns, and anti-forgery token security.
• Microsoft IIS, Windows Server deployment, and environment configuration management across dev, QA, pre-production, and production tiers.
• Containerization concepts and tools including Docker, Docker Compose, container image management, and container orchestration platforms (e.G., Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps).
• SignalR for real-time push notifications, IBM MQ for asynchronous messaging, and background job processing patterns.
• SOLID principles, unit testing (tSQLt, xUnit), and test-driven development practices.
• Agentic AI coding workflows and tools, including AI-assisted code generation, code review augmentation, and integrating large language models into development processes.

 
Skill In

• Analytical, critical thinking, and problem solving.
• Source control and branching strategies using Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) or Git, including multi-team concurrent development workflows.
• Full-stack development across Angular frontends, ASP.NET Core APIs, and SQL Server stored procedures, with the ability to trace and debug issues end-to-end.
• Fluency in core design patterns including repository, unit-of-work, dependency injection, and domain-driven design in large-scale enterprise applications.
• Agile development processes, sprint planning, code review leadership, and technical mentoring of development team members.
• Legacy application modernization, including phased migration from Classic ASP/AngularJS to ASP.NET Core and modern Angular.
• Decomposing monolithic applications into microservices, defining service boundaries, and containerizing .NET applications with Docker for consistent deployment across environments.
• SQL Server performance tuning, execution plan analysis, index optimization, and data forensics across databases with 1, 700+ tables and 10, 000+ stored procedures.
• Leveraging agentic AI tools and workflows to accelerate development, automate repetitive coding tasks, and enhance code quality through AI-assisted review and generation.
• Team leadership including timesheet approval, performance evaluations, and conducting regular one-on-one meetings with direct reports.

Ability To

• Establish and maintain positive working relationships with team members, stakeholders, and personnel at all organizational levels.
• Multitask and manage competing priorities in a high-volume, time-critical court technology environment.
• Conduct data forensic operations, audit trail analysis, log mining across log4net/ELMAH logging infrastructure, and root cause analysis in complex multi-tier systems.
• Design, develop, and maintain business-critical court information systems serving judicial operations, including case management, hearing scheduling, sentencing, and document processing workflows.
• Evaluate and plan the transition of existing monolithic services to containerized microservices, including defining API contracts, managing inter-service communication, and establishing CI/CD pipelines for container-based deployments.
• Supervise and develop team members, including approving timesheets, conducting performance evaluations, and holding regular one-on-one meetings to support professional growth.
• Communicate effectively and professionally with personnel at all organizational levels.

 
Experience Required

• Five (5) years of experience in software system design, programming and/or software systems and software support, which includes at least one (1) year of supervisory experience.

• OR Combined Education and Experience Qualifications:
• Other combinations of education and/or experience may be considered in substitution for minimum qualifications.

 
Education Required

• Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.