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Senior Applications Programmer (Alternate PM)

ECS
QUANTICO, VA, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 16 Sept 2025

About the role

ECS is seeking a Senior Applications Programmer (Alternate PM) to work in our Quantico, VA office.

 

ECS is looking to hire a Senior Applications Programmer to join our team with the Criminal Investigation Management System (CIMS), which supports the Army Law Enforcement mission under the United States Army Criminal Investigation Division (USACID) in Quantico, VA. USACID’s mission is to identify, disrupt, and defeat criminal threats to Army personnel, property, and resources.  CIMS is a critical component of this mission providing a secure IT environment to support USACID’s expanding role in the law enforcement community. This role will service IT operations, maintenance, development, testing, and application security for CIMS. 

 

Duties include: 

  • Responsible for designing, developing, enhancing, debugging, and implementing software. Troubleshoots production problems relating to software applications.
  • Research, test, build, and coordinate the conversion and/or integration of new products based on government requirements.
  • Analyze information to recommend, design, and plan development of new applications or modify existing ones.
  • Apply coding and testing standards, security testing tools including "fuzzing" static-analysis code scanning tools, and conduct code reviews.
  • Design, develop, and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure the outcome and consequence of design.
  • Determine and document software patches or the extent of releases that would leave software vulnerable.
  • Conduct trial runs of programs and software applications to ensure the desired information is produced and instructions and security levels are correct.
  • Develop secure code, error handling, software system testing, validation procedures, programming, and documentation. \
  • Perform feasibility analysis on potential future project to management.
  • Resolve problems with software and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements.
  • Instruct, assign, direct, and check the work of other software developers on the development team.
  • Participate in the development of software user manuals.
  • Translate security requirements into application design elements including documenting the elements of the software attack surfaces, conducting threat modeling, and defining any specific security criteria and addressing security implications in the software acceptance phase including completion criteria, risk acceptance and documentation, common criteria, and methods of independent testing.
Qualifications
  • MA/MS in Information Technology with concentration on software development and 5 years’ experience OR BA/BS in Information Technology with concentration on software development and 10 years’ experience. 
  • Must have one of the following valid security related certifications: CISSP-ISSAP, CSSLP, GSEC.
  • Must have one of the following valid technology area certifications: Azure Database Administrator Associate, Data Science of America Senior Data Scientist (SDS), Identity and Access Administrator Associate, Azure Security Engineer Associate, Azure Network Engineer Associate, Azure Security Engineer Associate, Cybersecurity Architect Expert, Security Operations Analyst Associate, Cybersecurity Architect, Azure Network Engineer Associate, Azure Data Fundamentals, Power BI Data Analyst Associate, Power Platform Fundamentals, Azure Data Scientist Associate, Azure Data Engineer Associate, Azure AI Engineer Associate, or AI Engineer Associate (365).

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