Sr. Java Developer

$101,400 - $183,300/Yr

Leidos - Reston, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Reston, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Sr. Java Developer position at Leidos involves supporting a complex program through Agile development and operations for critical systems. The role requires strong expertise in Java and related technologies, with a focus on delivering software solutions within a DevOps framework. The developer will participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, and deployment, while collaborating closely with team members and stakeholders to ensure alignment with customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement, using Java, JavaScript, Python, SpringBoot, Hibernate, Angular.
• Develop and direct software system validation and testing methods using Junit and Katalon.
• Develop and integrate custom developed software solutions to leverage automated deployment technologies.
• Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services.
• Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases.
• Analyze (through proof of concept, performance, and end-to-end testing) and effectively coordinate Infrastructure needs driven by developed software to meet customer mission needs.
• Support the Agile software development lifecycle following Program SAFe practices.
• Use industry leading DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Unix bash scripting.
• Document and perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments leveraging GitFlow constructs.
• Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.
• Leverage Atlassian tool suite like JIRA and Confluence to track activities.
• Apply and identify best practices and standard operating procedures.
• Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers.

Requirements

• Significant experience with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and development practices.
• Significant experience using Java, JavaScript, and Angular.
• Significant experience in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices.
• Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as Junit.
• Experience with scripting languages, such as Python, Bash.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment and tempo.
• Experience with development in Commercial Cloud Platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
• Experience with development leveraging cloud data services (e.g., S3, RDS, EFS).
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
• Well versed with using version control systems.
• Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in AWS Data management services (Elastic Map Reduce, Lambda, Kinesis).
• Experience with SAFe development practices.
• Experience with either Python, SpringBoot, Hibernate, Hive, Pig, or C++ is a plus.