Bixal

Software Engineer

• Serve as technical authority for the Drupal and React platform, including JSON:API integration, custom Drupal modules, and SQLite/MySQL data layers
• Maintain Acquia hosting, the Akamai CDN, and current integrations; recommend platform vendor updates
• Lead technical design and development of data products, interactive tools, dashboards, and features
• Build Drupal role-based access controls and self-service publishing and editing tools
• Provide secure APIs and data exchange mechanisms for external systems and third parties
• Manage release management, including emergency out-of-cycle production releases
• Oversee functional, performance, security, accessibility, and user acceptance testing
• Ensure Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA compliance
• Maintain a secure, FISMA-compliant codebase; run security scans and remediate critical and high vulnerabilities
• Maintain the ATO and security documentation in CFACTS, coordinating with the CMS ISSO
• Own monitoring, incident response, and disaster recovery
• Lead hosting and CDN migration analysis and execution
• Lead data migration and system integration for website consolidation
• Lead technical knowledge transfer and ensure complete technical documentation for every release
• Perform other relevant duties as assigned and qualified/trained to perform

Lead Developer

Cloud Engineer

• Design, deploy, and manage secure, scalable cloud infrastructure supporting data, analytics, and AI/ML workloads
• Own cloud infrastructure across development, validation, and production environments
• Build and maintain Terraform Infrastructure as Code and reusable automation modules for AWS and Databricks resources
• Administer Databricks workspaces, Unity Catalog, metastores, external locations, credentials, clusters, jobs, secrets, and access controls
• Manage Databricks migrations, upgrades, and architectural changes with minimal disruption
• Design and implement secure AWS architectures covering VPC networking, private connectivity, VPC endpoints, IAM, cross-account access, S3, and KMS encryption
• Build and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments, validation, security checks, and operational workflows
• Develop Python, Bash, and cloud API automation tooling
• Support identity and access management, including provisioning, groups, service principals, OAuth/PAT authentication, workload identities, and automated permissions
• Implement observability and audit logging, including Splunk integrations
• Design and support secure data platform integrations including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Delta Sharing, external locations, and data access controls
• Enable AI/ML capabilities including MLflow, Databricks AI tooling, AWS Bedrock, foundation model integrations, and GenAI workloads
• Partner with data engineering, analytics, security, and application teams to troubleshoot platform issues and establish engineering standards
• Lead technical investigations, proofs of concept, and platform improvements
• Create technical documentation, onboarding guides, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and self-service tooling
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement for production data platform services
• Perform other relevant duties as assigned and qualified/trained to perform

Senior Cloud Engineer

Project Manager

• Manage daily project activities for the agile development team, including schedule, scope, resources, system operations, and modernization efforts
• Ensure activities align with strategy, governance processes, applicable standards, and continuous improvement practices
• Supervise contractor staff and provide technical guidance
• Coordinate execution across developers, help desk, training, infrastructure, and security teams
• Serve as primary point of contact for the Contracting Officer, COR, GSA product owners, and government stakeholders
• Plan and lead project kickoff meetings
• Lead agile planning, backlog management, sprint planning, release planning, and work-status reporting
• Develop and maintain the Project Management Plan, Quality Management Plan, Communication Plan, Change Management Plan, procedures, schedules, and task trackers
• Develop and maintain modernization roadmaps and plans for planned releases and legacy-function retirement
• Maintain Business Requirements Documents based on process analysis, user research, technical discovery, and government priorities
• Monitor and resolve risks, issues, and dependencies
• Prepare recurring project status updates and monthly reports covering activities, accomplishments, upcoming work, risks, issues, staffing, and budget
• Oversee release readiness, testing, and user acceptance testing for quality, accessibility, and security standards
• Manage transition-in and transition-out activities
• Track labor hours and funding against contract limits and support accurate invoicing
• Travel approximately quarterly for demonstrations, planning sessions, and collaboration with client stakeholders
• Perform other relevant assigned duties

Scrum Master

• Manage daily project activities for the agile development team, including schedule, scope, resources, system operations, and modernization efforts
• Ensure activities align with strategy, governance processes, applicable standards, and continuous-improvement goals
• Supervise contractor staff, provide technical guidance, and coordinate developers, help desk, training, infrastructure, and security teams
• Serve as primary point of contact for government clients, including the Contracting Officer, COR, GSA product owners, and government stakeholders
• Plan and lead project kickoff meetings
• Lead agile planning, backlog management, sprint and release planning, and work-status reporting
• Develop and maintain the Project Management Plan, Quality Management Plan, Communication Plan, Change Management Plan, procedures, schedules, and task trackers
• Develop and maintain modernization roadmaps and plans for releases and legacy-function retirement
• Maintain Business Requirements Documents based on process analysis, user research, technical discovery, and government priorities
• Monitor and resolve risks, issues, and dependencies
• Prepare recurring project status updates and monthly reports covering activities, accomplishments, upcoming work, risks, issues, staffing, and budget
• Oversee release readiness, testing, and user acceptance testing for quality, accessibility, and security compliance
• Manage transition-in and transition-out activities
• Track labor hours and funding against contract limits and support accurate invoicing
• Travel approximately quarterly for in-person demonstrations, planning sessions, and collaboration with client stakeholders
• Perform other relevant duties as assigned and qualified/trained to perform

Project Manager – Scrum Master

Program Manager

• Lead delivery of data.CMS.gov, the CMS open data platform hosting more than 170 data products
• Serve as primary strategic and delivery lead and own the product roadmap
• Lead and manage a cross-functional agile team of 15–25 people and scale staffing as authorized
• Own product strategy and rolling roadmap; prioritize the backlog by desirability, feasibility, and viability
• Lead two-week sprints, three-sprint Program Increments, planning, demos, retrospectives, and Scrum of Scrums
• Oversee task order management, project and sprint planning, financial tracking, and estimate at completion
• Produce Monthly Status Reports covering accomplishments, risks, QASP performance, financials, velocity, and staffing
• Produce Project Status Dashboards using live Jira and Confluence data
• Develop and maintain the QASP and report performance against metrics and SOO key results
• Identify risks, blockers, and dependencies and present proposed paths forward to CMS
• Serve as primary CMS point of contact, including the COR, CO, and Product Owners
• Coordinate with the Office of Communications and data-owning components across CMS
• Plan and deliver at least 10 new data product releases per contract year
• Oversee help desk operations, user communications, outreach, and presentations for CMS leadership
• Apply open data standards and strengthen data and content governance
• Coordinate with other CMS contractors in cross-contractor forums
• Lead transition-in activities to achieve full operational capability within six months
• Deliver the Transition-Out Plan 90 days before the end of performance
• Perform other relevant duties as assigned and qualified/trained to perform

DevOps Engineer

• Build, lead, and grow the DevSecOps practice
• Recruit, onboard, and staff team members across active projects and new pursuits
• Mentor and develop engineers at all levels
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Manage team overhead and staffing allocations with Practice Area Directors and Finance
• Set performance expectations, conduct evaluations, and support career development for direct reports
• Define and own DevSecOps strategy and technical standards across programs and pursuits
• Guide design of secure, scalable, cloud-native platforms covering CI/CD, IaC, container orchestration, identity/access, and observability
• Establish architecture standards, reusable patterns, and governance aligned with NIST, FISMA, and FedRAMP
• Lead legacy-to-cloud migrations, platform hardening, automation, and AI integration
• Serve as an escalation point for complex technical challenges
• Partner with BD/capture teams on win themes and DevSecOps architecture
• Contribute to technical proposal content, staffing plans, and past performance narratives
• Represent Bixal's DevSecOps capabilities in client discussions, solutioning sessions, and orals
• Serve as a trusted technical voice with clients
• Keep senior leadership informed on practice health, staffing, and delivery risk

Lead Developer

Senior Cloud Engineer

Project Manager

Project Manager – Scrum Master

Program Manager

Director of DevSecOps