Kforce has a client that is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in Irving, TX. Job Duties * Lead Software Engineer partners with team members to increase software skills, system understanding, and design thinking to create high-performing teams * Embeds in teams or engages across teams to accomplish business objectives using the intentional architecture * Influences and collaborates with other towers and shared services; Works directly with external vendors to achieve business results * Researches and champions the implementation of new tools and approaches that benefit the organization * The Lead understands cloud technologies and how best to employ them; And assists other team members in to speed up the implementation * Champions Agile and DevOps to continuously improve product quality, time to market, and team member happiness * Invests in automated testing and automated pipelines to deploy constantly (multiple times per sprint) * Maintains a production-first mindset focused on scale, uptime, and the team's ability to rapidly triage/resolve production issues * Promotes modern software development patterns and practices that promote simplicity, understanding, reuse, and security * In partnership with product management and solutions architect, the Lead Software Engineer helps to maintain a technical backlog for the agile team * Serve as a subject matter expert on core systems, providing guidance to other team members in their maintenance and support