What are the responsibilities and job description for the Back-End Developer - SAFFIRE position at CCS Global Tech?
Job Details
Do you want to help advance the next generation of AI tools to support U.S. intelligence dominance?
Our Client needs a Mission Engineer to support NGA in building state-of-the-art Structured Observation Management (SOM) and Computer Vision (CV) capabilities that will underpin the latest SOM production UI driving mission success across the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG) and Allied System for Geospatial Intelligence (ASG).
The Software Developer supporting the SAFFIRE program shall work in collaboration to enhance the analysis system leveraging proprietary capabilities. The Developer shall collaborate on the integration of capabilities from different systems. Additionally, you will collaborate on the design, development, testing and integration. Perhaps the most rewarding aspect of this program is the frequent user interaction and unsolicited feedback on the value you bring to the mission every single day. We live and breathe the mission right along-side our users.
You'll Bring These Qualifications:
Active and current Top Secret or TS-SCI clearance, preferably with a recent polygraph
7 years of experience in software development (analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance) required
Understand the Software development life cycle
Must have demonstrated experience developing with modern languages such as: Python, Ruby, Clojure, Java, JavaScript, etc.
Highly preferred to have Python programming language experience
Experience designing, developing, documenting, testing, and debugging software that contains logical and mathematical solutions to problems
Demonstrated experience using rapid prototyping and Agile based software development methodologies
These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
Understanding of machine learning concepts
Experience integrating multiple applications
Experience developing and implementing software enhancements to mission systems in other Government agencies
Experience building scalable solutions to mission problems
Experience with development in microservice based architectures
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, Kafka, SciPy, NumPy, Pandas
AWS API experience
AWS Certification (Developer, DevOps and/or, Architect, etc.)
Security Certification
Education:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Clearance:
Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance and a polygraph preferred
Additional Job Description
Level Description:
Recognized subject matter expert
Manages large projects
Limited oversight from manager
Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level technical team members
Problems faced are difficult and often complex
Influences others regarding policies, practices, and procedures
Organizational Impact:
Works to achieve operational targets with major impact on the departmental results. Contributes to the development of goals for the department and planning efforts (budgets, operational plans, etc.). May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area. Work is performed with minimal oversight.
Innovation & Complexity:
Demonstrates innovative influence for Business Groups or projects.
Responsible for making moderate to significant improvements of systems or products to enhance performance of program/project.
Problems and issues faced are numerous and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem. Regularly employs ingenuity and creativity to develop new technical solutions to solve difficult and moderately complex problems. Problems typically impact multiple departments or specialties. Problems are typically solved through drawing from prior experience and analysis of issues.
Communication & Influence:
Communicates with parties within and outside of own job function. Typically has responsibility for communicating with parties external to the organization (e.g., customers, vendors, etc.)
Works to influence project/team leaders within and outside of the job function at project/program regarding solution design, process, and/or approaches
Leadership & Talent Management:
Typically, responsible for providing guidance, coaching and training to other employees within technical discipline. Typically, responsible for leading large or complex projects that involve technically challenging requirements at this level, involving delegation of work and review of work products.
Knowledge & Experience:
Requires deep knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience. Typically viewed as having a specialty within discipline. May have broad knowledge of project management.
Typically has a University Degree (BA/BS) or equivalent experience and minimum 7 years of related work.
