Backend Developer (TS/SCI) NEW

IBM - Reston, VA

Full-time

Reston, VA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Backend Developer role at IBM involves working on classified data services to enhance the performance and effectiveness of Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) systems. The position focuses on improving algorithm performance, data quality, and integrating new datasets while maintaining a polyglot database environment and extending event-driven micro-services. The developer will collaborate with clients, stakeholders, and military personnel to ensure alignment with stakeholder needs and drive future innovations.

Responsibilities

• Improve algorithm performance, data quality, and incorporate new datasets for analytics.
• Maintain a polyglot database environment and extend event-driven micro-services.
• Interface with clients, stakeholders, military personnel, and data providers to ensure stakeholder buy-in and populate backlog for future innovation.

Requirements

• US Citizen with active TS//SCI clearance or immediate eligibility according to JPAS security database.
• 2+ years of Python programming experience.
• 2+ years of experience architecting, designing, or programming applications in hybrid cloud or on-prem environments.
• Experience with employing, customizing, optimizing, and/or managing NoSQL database technology.
• Experience with custom ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) development.
• Experience with designing algorithms to infer relationships between events or entities.
• Experience with designing validation and/or diagnostic approaches to ensure strong data quality.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience coding in operational military and/or intelligence networks or settings.
• Experience with employing, customizing, optimizing, and/or managing MongoDB.
• Experience with Celery or analogous asynchronous task queue technologies.
• Experience with algorithmic development that merges, standardizes, and links related data sources.
• Skills with implementing and customizing ElasticSearch for text search use cases.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, Jenkins).
• Experience with gathering operational and intelligence data from classified DoD systems.
• Experience with national or military intelligence capabilities and their use.
• Experience with transitioning on-prem capabilities to cloud.
• Experience with natural language processing (NLP) or other techniques to extract value out of unstructured data.
• Data visualization experience using JavaScript (such as Chart.js or D3).
• Experience with MVC frameworks (e.g., React.js), Node.js, and Web API design.