Software Engineer Virginia

This is a full-time position, and requires a TS/SCI/Full Scope Polygraph Clearance.

2HB Incorporated is seeking a Software Engineer to support its government customer in Herndon, VA.

  The ideal candidate will have strong experience with PySpark, and AWS Services (EMR). Databricks, and Open Delta Format are highly desired.  

The Candidate shall provide technical support for the USG’s Data Governance and Data Harmony capabilities. Candidate support will also include data modeling and conditioning.

 The Candidate shall provide Agile program management support in accordance with USG’s development process.

While the work will be performed within a team environment, much of it is independently executed. The Candidate shall be required to communicate and collaborate across organizational boundaries, to include other contractor teams. The Candidate shall be required to work with US Government (USG) staff and candidate personnel, as well as external stakeholders. The Candidate shall be required to identify blockers or dependencies to USG staff and work towards resolution of any obstacles to providing this support.

 The Candidate shall provide all technical operations support for the USG’s data governance tool, which is a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) product.

The governance tool will provide the USG’s organization with a modern data management platform and replace or interface with existing data management services and solutions. The system will be based on the COTS product AXON Data Governance developed by the vendor Informatica. Axon Data Governance (Axon) is a powerful tool for describing how, why and where data is used in your organization, giving much needed context to this activity. Axon facilitates collaboration between users, who may not always realize how they depend upon each other or use the same resources.

The Candidate shall maintain the existing tool for production use in accordance with security requirements and USG’s priorities. The Candidate will continue accreditation work to establish new instances of governance tools for USG and IC use.

The Candidate shall support enhancement efforts to meet mission needs.

The Candidate shall provide all technical operations, maintenance and development support for USG’s Data Harmony tool, which includes a user interface and currently one commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) product.

Data Harmony will provide a collaborative working environment for reconciling and harmonizing Mission Reference Data and IT metadata from across a multiplicity of the USG’s organization and Intelligence Community (IC) systems and repositories. Data models of various types will be created and maintained along with taxonomies and list values reflecting values from existing systems and repositories.

The Candidate shall maintain existing tools for production use in accordance with security requirements and USG’s priorities.

Data Modeling and Conditioning Support

The Candidate shall provide data modeling subject matter expertise. The Candidate shall create, share and update data models and data conditioners, as directed by the USG, using standard Microsoft office tools, as well as the Data Harmony tools. The Candidate shall create conditioners that transform real datasets into the data models, as directed by the USG.

The Candidate shall provide technical support for the USG’s Data Governance and Data Harmony capabilities. Contractor support will also include data modeling and conditioning.

The Candidate shall provide Agile program management support in accordance with USG’s development process.

While the work will be performed within a team environment, much of it is independently executed. The Candidate shall be required to communicate and collaborate across organizational boundaries, to include other contractor teams. The Candidate shall be required to work with USG staff and contractor personnel, as well as external stakeholders. The Contractor shall be required to identify blockers or dependencies to USG staff and work towards resolution of any obstacles to providing this support.

Data Governance Tool Support

The Contractor shall provide all technical operations support for the USG’s data governance tool, which is a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) product.

The governance tool will provide the USG’s organization with a modern data management platform and replace or interface with existing data management services and solutions. The system will be based on the COTS product AXON Data Governance developed by the vendor Informatica. Axon Data Governance (Axon) is a powerful tool for describing how, why and where data is used in your organization, giving much needed context to this activity. Axon facilitates collaboration between users, who may not always realize how they depend upon each other or use the same resources.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

The Candidate shall identify optimizations to the tools and coordinate with Sponsor for prioritization according to USG’s Agile processes.

The Candidate shall provide support for configuration management, deployment packaging, and program management activities required by USG for developing and delivering production applications.

The Candidate shall attend configuration management boards or provide written documentation to acquire deployment authorization according to USG process.

The Candidate  shall leverage DevSecOps tools as much as possible to support automated deployments.

The Candidate shall produce a Sprint Progress Report in USG’s format at the end of each Sprint.

The Candidate shall manage prioritized work in JIRA, or other tool, according to USG’s Agile processes.

The Candidate shall immediately communicate risks, dependencies and blockers with USG to remove obstacles and drive product delivery.

This is a full-time position, and requires a TS/SCI/Full Scope Polygraph Clearance.