Application Developer

Huntsville, Alabama
Huntsville, AL 35801, USA

Job Title: Application Developer

Clearance Level: Active DoD – Secret / US Citizenship is Required

Telework: Hybrid

Location: Huntsville, AL
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Candidate must be local and within driving distance of Redstone Arsenal, Alabama

OSS is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business headquartered in Huntsville, AL. We are focused on "Making a Difference" in the lives of our Department of Defense Customers, Communities, and Employees. Our greatest strength is our people. We expect competence and character and look for uniquely skilled and passionate individuals bound by a collective vision to bring their best to our mission.

OSS believes in taking great care of our employees, evidenced by our exemplary benefits package: OSS covers 75% of the monthly insurance cost towards employee Health Insurance, we offer multiple Principal product options, and we have a fantastic 401k plan match with eligibility to start immediately upon hire. If you are interested in an opportunity to join a great mission, supporting awesome customers with a growing company, please reach out to us to learn more!

The Application Developer will work closely with the Project Manager, application architects, developers, and customer stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle. This position will contribute to requirements analysis, solution design, application development, testing, deployment, user training, and sustainment, while ensuring solutions meet or exceed customer expectations.

The primary focus will be the automation and modernization of government business processes, including project management, acquisition, resource management, funding, scheduling, and associated data. The successful candidate will help transform complex business processes into streamlined digital workflows and user-friendly applications that improve data management, increase operational efficiency, and provide meaningful insights to senior leaders and functional managers.

• Develop, configure, test, deploy, and sustain government business applications.
• Translate customer and functional requirements into effective technical requirements.
• Collaborate with the Project Manager, application architects, developers, and customer stakeholders to define technical approaches and application designs.
• Design and develop intuitive user interfaces, dashboards, workflows, and data visualizations that support both day-to-day operations and management decision-making.
• Develop and maintain data models, entities, services, business logic, and application components.
• Integrate applications with databases, external systems, APIs, and other enterprise data sources as required.
• Apply sound software development and database design practices to create scalable, maintainable, and secure solutions.
• Participate in requirements analysis, technical design reviews, code reviews, testing, demonstrations, and customer presentations.
• Troubleshoot application issues and provide ongoing technical support and sustainment.
• Communicate technical status, risks, dependencies, schedules, and potential issues to the Project Manager.
• Collaborate effectively with other developers to ensure consistency, quality, and maintainability across project solutions.
• Work directly with customer stakeholders to understand evolving business needs and identify opportunities for process automation and improvement.
• Support user training, documentation, deployment activities, and transition of applications into operational use.
• Evaluate existing business processes and recommend opportunities for automation, modernization, and improved use of organizational data.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science,…