Software Developer - Senior

Software Developer - Senior

Category: Software Development/ Engineering

Main location: United States, Louisiana, Lafayette

Alternate Location(s): United States, Virginia, Fairfax

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Employment Type: Full Time

Help us find and track criminals... and run the technology behind it! Are you ready to take on a pivotal role in revolutionizing the future of criminal justice technology? CGI Federal will be supporting a highly technical migration to the cloud, and we need your technology expertise to make it happen! This is an opportunity to work on cutting edge technology while providing an important role innovating in support of our nation's criminal justice.

This position can be located at any CGI office in the U.S and a hybrid working model is acceptable. This position is located in our Fairfax, VA office; however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.

• Develops, creates, and modifies general computer applications software or specialized utility programs.
• Migrate and modernize all current-system functionality from legacy mainframe systems into cloud-native microservices operating within AWS Gov Cloud.
• Participates in the operation and support of an enterprise-scale production system, including identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving system issues in collaboration with the ART.
• Analyzes user needs and develops software solutions.
• Analyzes and designs databases within an application area, working individually or coordinating database development as part of a team.
• Applies principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.

• Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 8 years of work experience or Associate's Degree with a minimum of 12 years of experience.
• Active Tier 3 Secret clearance.
• Experience working within an Agile framework, actively contributing to sprint planning, backlog refinement, and CI/CD Pipeline.
• 5+ years of experience Java Object-Oriented Programming.
• 5+ years experience with Kubernetes and containers; automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
• Experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native architectures within secure, regulated environments.
• Experience designing and supporting event-driven architectures with an emphasis on reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience with three or more of the following:
  • Apache Kafka
  • Pub/Sub (Publish, subscribe)
  • Streaming
  • Event sources
  • Running Git Ops (Git Lab, Git, Bitbucket, ArgoCD, Tecton, etc.) within version control tools.
  • Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) for version control management.

• Provide technical leadership for the development team, including: collaboration with the System Architects to implement architectural decisions that ensure alignment with ART standards, patterns, and security requirements.
• Track record of proven leadership including the ability to work autonomously as well as within a group additionally demonstrating the ability to mentor and lead a group of developers. This includes supporting solutioning and design decisions, promotion of best practices in code development, testing, and documentation.
• Demonstrate a positive, collaborative attitude and a commitment to team success.
• Takes pride in delivering high‑quality, reliable software that supports a mission‑critical system.
• Shows ownership and accountability for assigned work and shared team outcomes.
• Engages constructively in Agile ceremonies and technical discussions.
• Maintains a strong work ethic, professionalism, and respect for teammates, stakeholders, and mission priorities.
• Adapts to change and approaches challenges with a solution‑oriented mindset.
• Ability to interpret customers' requirements and implement them along with being able to problem solve.

• Migrate all current-system functionality from the mainframes and operate within a cloud‑based environment (AWS Gov Cloud).
• Transition investigative search to Elasticsearch,…