Software Developer Integration Engineer

The Leidos Digital Modernization Group seeks an Integration Engineer with a strong Software Development background to support the Enterprise Situational Awareness/Common Operational Picture (SA/COP) Team.  The candidate will be responsible for integrating various data sources into Confluent (Kafka) and Elastic platforms, developing robust integration solutions, and contributing to data governance practices. The role requires expertise in Kafka, cloud platforms, and full software lifecycle automation, with experience in deploying and managing systems in a multi-site, multi-cluster environment.

The Leidos Digital Modernization Sector provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for Defense include enterprise and mission IT, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the world’s toughest security challenges for customers with “can’t fail” missions.

Joint Management Tool (JMT) supports the effective planning, deployment, trouble management, and decommissioning of deployed and non-deployed Satellite Communications (SATCOM) resources, specifically those supporting Department of Defense (DoD), mission partner (other U.S. federal agency), and international partner missions. Through the implementation of automated workflows and dynamic user interfaces, the JMT system strives to streamline business processes and significantly reduce the recurrence and impact of human error by functioning as a homogenous platform through which SATCOM planners, provisioners, operators, and customers can seamlessly coordinate SATCOM requests. 

As a key SA/COP team member, you will work as part of a fast paced, Agile development and implementation team to architect, design and develop an integration solution to ensure a unified data integrated platform that expands the foundational Integrated Data Architecture platform (Confluent and ELK platform). You will work alongside others in a dedicated scrum team in support for operational end user and support team requirements.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Integration Solutions: Develop and implement integration solutions for the JMT project using Kafka and Elastic as the primary data architecture platforms.

• Data Integration: Integrate data sources (ServiceNow, Terminal Cert DB, Modem Cert DB, Baseband Mission Workup, TRS, MRS, UDL) into Confluent (Kafka) and Elastic platforms. Develop Kafka system integrations between Elasticsearch/Logstash and other systems.

• Kafka Integration & Development: Develop Kafka system integrations, custom connectors, and work with ksqlDB and Kafka Streams for data processing based on the design solution.

• Kafka Cluster Management: Deploy and manage Kafka clusters on Kubernetes in multi-site environments (both on-premise and cloud).

• Software Lifecycle Automation: Automate the full software lifecycle, from design and development to testing and deployment, including production environments.

• DevOps Pipelines: Design and build application deployment pipelines, including containerized environments using Kubernetes and Docker, and automated testing pipelines.

Basic Qualifications:

• Education: B.S. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering.

• Experience: 5+ years of combined experience in Kafka, Java, RESTful services, AWS, and full stack development

• Programming Background: Software development experience with Python, Java and SQL. Working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript.

• Event Streaming & Integration: Advanced understanding of event streaming and Kafka integration.

• Application Integration: Experience in application integration design and strong communication skills for collaboration with virtual teams.

• Software Design: Experience in developing software detailed designs, particularly in ksql or kstreams.

• Software Development Lifecycle:

• Proficiency in following a software development lifecycle and maintaining production-quality code.

• Experience with distributed version control software such as Git and Bitbucket.

• Knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of Software Engineering.

• Experience developing software on a UNIX command line platform.

• Software Documentation & Requirements: Develop DoD requirements, traceability, and detailed plans/schedules. Write software sys