Software Developer

Systems Developer

Location: Chantilly, VA (fully on-site, no remote option)

Support a team creating component based services to integrate with multiple applications and frameworks. Provide development support for service and application development to enhance and develop solutions and support other program office software projects.

Mandatory Skills

• Demonstrated experience developing Python applications with data science libraries.
• Demonstrated experience with ML frameworks like scikit-learn, SpaCy, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras.
• Demonstrated experience with Natural Language Processing techniques.
• Demonstrated experience with AWS Services and Cloud based development.
• Demonstrated experience working with REST services.
• Demonstrated experience working with SQL, including Postgres.
• Demonstrated experience with search syntax to include ICQL and Retrieval Ware.
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience exhibiting analytical skills to assess client's requirements and create innovative solutions.
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience exhibiting problem solving skills to include debugging and testing web applications.

Optional Skills

• Demonstrated experience in the practical application of engineering science and technology, including applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods or services.
• Demonstrated experience in design, such as design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
• Demonstrated experience in project management processes, procedures and tools.
• Demonstrated experience in Project Management concepts and principles.
• Demonstrated experience in Project planning and management skills, including scope of work, time estimation, and resource assignment.
• Demonstrated experience in Technology Design, such as generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
• Demonstrated experience in Troubleshooting, such as determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
• Demonstrated experience in Systems Analysis, such as determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience in Operations Analysis, such as analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
• Demonstrated experience in identifying technology gaps in current capabilities and processes.
• Demonstrated experience in developing a project plan and workflow based on a project management model.
• Demonstrated experience in troubleshooting and problem solving both technical and non-technical issues with equipment, systems, networks, and computer operations.
• Demonstrated experience in conveying technical information to non-technical individuals.
• Demonstrated experience in troubleshooting and problem-solving issues related to development across multiple security boundaries including both high and low side environments.

Other Skills

• Experience designing and developing tools that integrate with applications.
• Experience designing and developing collaborative tools, data manipulation techniques, data visualization techniques, and directory services.
• Designing, building, and maintaining ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines for data applications.
• Developing, testing, evaluating, and integrating machine learning models, in particular Large Language Models, into production software.
• Creating RESTful APIs or microservices (using Flask, FastAPI, or Django) to expose data insights or models to other applications.
• Experience providing the operations and maintenance of operational systems including cloud based activities.
• Experience modifying existing software to correct errors or to improve performance.
• Experience optimizing algorithms for efficiency and implementing monitoring tools like Prometheus or MLflow to track model performance, detect drift, and ensure software reliability in production environments.
• Experience analyzing user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost restraints for client consideration.
• Experience consulting with software system design and maintenance.
• Experience developing and directing software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation.
• Experience conferring with other application's systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
• Experience correcting errors by making appropriate changes and confirming the desired results are produced.
• Experience compiling and writing documentation of program development and subsequent revisions, inserting comments in the coded instruction so others can understand the program.
• Experience writing, updating, and maintaining applications or software packages to handle specific tasks.
• As needed, consulting with managerial, engineering, and technical personnel to clarify technical aspects of the program(s).