Software Developer Senior (TS/SCI with Polygraph Required)

GCI, embodies excellence, integrity and professionalism. The employees supporting our customers deliver unique, high-value mission solutions while effectively leverage the technological expertise of our valued workforce to meet critical mission requirements in the areas of Data Analytics and Software Development, Engineering, Targeting and Analysis, Operations, Training, and Cyber Operations. We maximize opportunities for success by building and maintaining trusted and reliable partnerships with our customers and industry.

At GCI, we solve the hard problems. As a Software Engineer, a typical day will include the following duties:

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Software Engineer will design, develop, code, test, and debug complex software products, or make significant enhancements to existing software. The ideal candidate is a hands-on platform builder with significant experience in developing scalable software applications, with experience in analytics using large data sets. They must have strong, firsthand technical expertise in a variety of configuration management and big data technologies and the proven ability to fashion robust solutions that can manage large data sets. They must be at ease working in an agile environment with little supervision. This person should embody a passion for continuous improvement and innovation.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE
Demonstrated experience developing detailed design and associated deliverables.
Demonstrated experience translating customer and system requirements into design.
Demonstrated experience designing system interfaces.
Demonstrated hands-on experience developing Applications using the following technologies or something similar: SOLR, Elastic, Postgres, Java, Scala, RDS or spring boot.
Demonstrated hands-on experience working with relational and non-relational database systems such as Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, and Postgres.
Demonstrated hands-on experience with and troubleshooting of Internet and Web related protocols and technologies such as Tomcat, Nodejs, Web Services, or SSL.
Demonstrated hands-on experience developing JUnit and Jasmine tests.
Demonstrated experience with testing platforms such as Jest or Karma.
Demonstrated hands-on experience working with DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, or Nexus

HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE
Other skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not mandatory to perform the work, include:
Demonstrated recent experience with the Sponsor’s Lean Agile methodology.
Demonstrated experience using ErDoS managing top line charts, sprint burn-up charts and sprint goals.
Demonstrated experience with Sponsor data repositories, Segmentation service, SecOps Pipeline, and Automated Sponsor JIRA Workflow.
Demonstrated recent experience with the Sponsor's suite of applications providing repository and search services that enables Sponsor to find the information they need.
Demonstrated recent experience with Sponsor’s profile and alerting services that represents a "prospective search" tool that sifts through incoming stream looking for items that match a user’s profile and alerts upon match.
Demonstrated recent experience with the Sponsor’s discovery and recommendation services that allows a user to discover data they wouldn’t ordinarily know about and represents an information filtering system that leverages content-based approaches to discriminate between interesting and uninteresting items for a user.
Demonstrated experience with the Sponsor’s Pre-NLP processing pipeline to remove boilerplate text, portion marks and non-narrative content.
NOTE: The team needs a candidate that has proficiencies in Java, Web Services, and Spring Boot. In addition, skills related to cloud technologies (e.g. AWS) and Docker. Rotating pager duty required.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training, and work/military experience.