Junior Software Engineer

Title

Junior Software Engineer

ID

00023

Department

Computers/Software


Evans & Chambers is currently seeking an software engineering to work in an extreme programming environment to automate and refine existing mission processes quickly. All candidates must be a U.S. Citizen.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Be a part of a software development team building big data prototypes on AWS in support of a critical mission requirement.
  • Use critical thinking and a variety of software tools and languages to tackle new challenges each day.
  • Interact in a collaborative rapid feedback environment to deliver process improvements to the end user. Strong collaboration and communication skills are required in this environment. Frequent interaction between the analysts and engineers is key in this opportunity.
  • Experience collecting and processing large volumes of data in various formats, structured and unstructured.
  • Ability to understand and translate technical jargon to mission-users.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

  • Active TS/SCI with the ability to pass CI-Poly.
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related major from an accredited university.
  • Minimum of seven years experience in a technical environment exhibiting the knowledge, skills and abilities above.
  • Cloud technologies awareness
  • Experience in full stack application development using Java or Groovy (mid-level and senior positions available)
  • Experience interrogating various data stores, such as Accumulo, MongoDB, MySQL, and Oracle a plus.
  • Experience with one or more scripting languages like Python or Perl a plus.
  • Experience with search technologies such as ElasticSearch, Solr, and Lucene a plus.
  • Experience sharing and disseminating search results using tools such as AngularJS, JQuery, Grails, Java, and REST web services a plus.
  • Experience creating MapReduce jobs to process large amounts of data with Hadoop and other Hadoop Components – HDFS, Hbase, Hive, Sqoop, Kafka, Storm, etc. a plus. (Cloudera experience is a plus)
  • Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Experience creating data models to translate data in various formats for ingestion into an enterprise data store
  • Extreme Programming techniques. Proven experience with the technique is a plus.
  • Experience with maintaining continuous test and deployment environments to support rapid application development.
  • Strong knowledge of software best practices to enhance the security posture of the application.
  • Experience in creating dynamic and static data visualizations desired.
  • Experience in Data Science (professionally or academically) desired.
  • Experience with mission intelligence desired.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:

  • Travel may be required inside the Washington National Capital Region (NCR).


 
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