Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer - TS​/SCI Clearance - Springf Security Clearance

Position: Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer - TS/SCI Clearance - Springf with Security Clearance
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer Springfield, VA Active TS/SCI clearance and be willing and able to obtain a CI polygraph required. We have a great opportunity to contribute to direct mission capabilities by developing exciting, cutting-edge applications that impact geospatial navigation and crucial decision-making in the intelligence sector! If this type of impact would excite you, we’d love to chat with you!

@Orchard is retained by a top geospatial technology company in their search for a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join their team. This role will be performed onsite at the customer facility located in Springfield, VA, and will create technology solutions for data collection, data analytics, data visualization, and user workflow automation.  You will get to work on an interesting mission focus with large data sets and create solutions with technology in support of national security.
You will work directly with analysts to understand mission needs and generate solutions.  Technical tasks include ELT, managing, analyzing, and visualizing large sets of geospatial data to extract meaningful knowledge with cloud-based processing technologies and emerging data science techniques. We want a self-motivated engineer who is comfortable digging into data, trying innovative approaches, and isn't afraid to fail fast and move on to other techniques/ideas.
Responsibilities:
* Design and implement efficient, flexible solutions that can scale for mission critical applications.
* Active in all aspects of the development lifecycle, including planning, requirements development, software design, implementation and build, documentation, testing, deployment and maintenance.
* Apply software standards and processes to produce high quality, extensible, and maintainable software solutions.
* Work with cloud tech stacks to perform data extraction, manipulation, transformation; visualization of geospatial-temporal data sets
* Develop analytics/derivative data products to help users extract meaningful knowledge
* Proactive approach to trouble shooting and problem-solving issues
* Work directly with users throughout the IC/DoD to understand their requirements and propose technical solutions
* Collaborate with diverse teams of engineers, clients, and users
* Ability to work full time onsite

Minimum Qualifications:

* US citizenship and a current TS/SCI clearance (with willingness to get a CI Polygraph).
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technology fields (additional experience will be considered in lieu of degree and advanced degree will be considered in lieu of experience)
* Minimum of 8 years demonstrated experience in software development, including design, development, and implementation  
* Proficiency in Java, Python, or similar object-oriented programming languages  
* Experience with data extraction, manipulation, visualization, and analysis of large datasets  
* Proficiency in Linux-based environments  
* Experience designing and supporting cloud-based architectures, including AWS and C2S environments  
* Experience developing and maintaining applications in cloud computing environments  
* Experience working with No

SQL data stores such as Elasticsearch, Mongo

DB, or similar technologies  
* Demonstrated ability to lead small engineering teams and work both independently and collaboratively  
* Strong problem-solving mindset and adaptability, with the ability to leverage emerging technologies to solve mission challenges  
* Familiarity with modern software development tools, Dev Sec Ops  practices, and CI/CD pipelines  
* Experience with Agile development methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience working with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, in cloud or hybrid environments  
* Knowledge of GIS technologies, geospatial data processing, and visualization techniques  
* Experience working with open-source technologies in government computing environments  Established in 2010, @Orchard has an exceptional reputation, providing talent acquisition solutions to time-sensitive, talent scarcity issues to deliver better talent management ROI.  Our specialty lies in the critical area of program talent acquisition and resource management, not in one narrow skillset, but across many areas of technical and functional delivery.

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