Senior Software Engineer (Analytics Services)

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Software Engineer to join our team focused on Analytic Services!

In this role you will own the design, delivery, performance, and operational evolution of the analytics services domain for a large-scale, globally distributed mission platform.

You will be responsible for a portfolio of Java-based microservices and supporting analytics/search infrastructure built around Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, and Vue.js 3 based user interfaces.

This role requires someone who can combine search and aggregation architecture, query performance engineering, telemetry analytics, user-facing analytics design, and operational ownership.

What You'll Be Doing: 

• Own the analytics services portfolio for a globally distributed software platform, including:

  • user-facing analytics services

  • search and aggregate query services

  • event roll-up and nested aggregation services

  • telemetry analytics and APM-related services

  • analytics-facing administrative and visualization interfaces

• Lead the design and delivery of Java-based microservices supporting analytics, search, aggregation, and reporting workflows

• Own analytics architecture across three primary query/analysis patterns:

  • regular queries on cached/indexed data

  • composite aggregations across multiple fields returning aggregated results

  • nested aggregations used for event rollups, hierarchy-based summaries, and other advanced analytical needs

• Ensure that analytics services support both:

  • business/mission-facing analytics and reporting

  • operational telemetry analysis across services, infrastructure, and networking

• Tune and optimize analytic queries and service interactions to meet strict performance and latency requirements, especially where analytics are embedded in real-time transaction workflows

• Lead the design and operation of analytics services built on:

  • Elasticsearch

  • Logstash

  • Kibana

  • Grafana

  • Vue.js 3 based user interfaces

• Define indexing, sharding, retention, and query strategy for both operational and user-facing analytics workloads

• Establish data models and service contracts that support analytics consistency across distributed deployments

• Work closely with data, platform, and software engineering teams to ensure high-quality ingestion pipelines and well-structured searchable data

• Own the service-level health, scalability, and observability of analytics microservices

• Guide implementation of dashboards, visualizations, role-specific analytics views, and reporting capabilities for different user groups

• Partner with operations and engineering teams to use telemetry and APM data to improve system reliability, identify bottlenecks, and support root cause analysis

• Lead major incident analysis where analytics or observability performance impacts mission or platform operations

What Required Skills You'll Bring: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field. 4 Additional years of experience can substitute for a degree.

• 15+ years of software engineering, data platform engineering, search engineering, or analytics platform experience, including 4+ years leading a major technical service area or team.

• Strong experience building and operating analytics or search services in production

• Strong hands-on experience with:

  • Elasticsearch

  • Logstash

  • Kibana and/or Grafana

  • Java-based backend services / microservices

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