Sr. Java Developer

- Senior

Reston, VA

About the position

We have an immediate need for a Sr. Software Engineer with strong systems, software, cloud, database, and Agile experience to support a complex program to provide Agile development and operations and maintenance for critical systems. Based in DevOps framework, participate in and/or direct major deliverables of projects through all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing.

Responsibilities

• Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement, using Java, JavaScript, Python, SpringBoot, Hibernate.
• Provide expertise integrating with, configuring, performance tuning, administering and troubleshooting DynamoDB.
• 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

• Direct experience integrating with, configuring, performance tuning, administering and troubleshooting DynamoDB.
• 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 (ex, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
• Experience with development leveraging cloud data services (ex: S3, RDS, EFS).
• Well versed with using version control systems.
• Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems.
• Candidate must have a Bachelor’s degree with 8 or more years of prior relevant experience or a Master’s degree with 6 or more years of prior relevant experience. Additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
• Candidate must have a current TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in AWS Data management services (Elastic Map Reduce, Lambda, Kinesis).
• Experience with SAFe development practices.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Health and Wellness programs.
• Income Protection.
• Paid Leave.
• Retirement.