Software Engineer

• ACTIVE TS/SCI WITH FULL SCOPE POLY REQUIRED***

This is a unique position for a strong Applications Developer to build new mission-critical applications to support users charged with “Enterprise Search” of voluminous records in multiple formats, repositories, and networks in response to high-profile requests levied on or by the Sponsor organization. The candidate will be a pioneer member of a small growing team of software developers who will design, develop, and deploy an application leveraging search technologies and data analytics to discover, filter, refine, and retrieve task-responsive documents with efficiency and speed. Development will take place in an iterative fashion using scrum techniques with inputs from the Project Manager, IT Division Leadership, Technical Director, and Subject Matter Experts and other business stakeholders. The candidate must have the ability to communicate with project team members, user community, and leadership to assess changes and demonstrate iterative progress.

This Position Will Include a Variety Of Activities, Including

• Participation with iterative software development teams with adherence to all reporting requirements
• Designing, developing and unit testing code for a production system and demonstration capabilities
• Developing iterative screen mock ups, use of rapid prototyping to drive out requirements and design
• Providing demonstrations and detailed walk through of features to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences
• Meeting with stakeholders, analyzing requirements, developing user stories and related artifacts, and translating these into software development tasks
• Working with systems engineers to specify and design the final system
• Development of technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed by program management

Requirements Mandatory Skills (in order of importance):

• Demonstrated on-the-job experience developing web service code using Java and Spring Boot Demonstrated on-the-job experience with RDBMs (Relational Database Management Systems) such as MySql, Postgres, or Oracle
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience with web services (REST) and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience with Solr or Elastic Search
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience with development and deployment of applications in the Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) environment or an Amazon Web Services cloud environment
• Bachelor’s degree and minimum of five years of experience in developing user interface software for web applications (Master’s degree equates to an additional 2 years of relevant work experience)

Desired Skills (in Order Of Importance)

• Demonstrated on-the-job experience working in Linux
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience developing user interface using all of the following technologies: Angular, HTML/CSS, JavaScript
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience with testing frameworks such as Junit, Mockito, Swagger, or Postman
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience developing web-based applications in sponsor's environment
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience with DevOps or other system automation techniques
• Demonstrated on-the-job-experience in Agile software development teams using scrum techniques
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience using JIRA and GitHub for documenting work
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience working in a project team (3-5 developers) with experience in: decomposing concepts to discrete development tasks and managing your work to a deadline