Senior Software Developer, Digital Cataloging Services Security Clearance

Position: Senior Software Developer, Digital Cataloging Services with Security Clearance
Purpose and Impact:
The Geospatial Enterprise Open Data Store (GEODS) contract provides integration, design, development, and sustainment for data services in support of the Federal Government. Developers on GEODS routinely design and implement new custom features that solve unique problems, optimize legacy capabilities, and deliver enterprise-level data services. In this role, you will directly shape the evolution of the GEODS Catalog ecosystem and drive integration of advanced AI/ML solutions to enhance discovery, classification, and accessibility of mission-critical data.

Work Schedule:

M - F / Core hours 9 AM - 3 PM

Essential Responsibilities:

As a GEODS Senior Software Developer, you will serve as a developmental lead and mentor to other developers, advancing the vision and execution of the GEODS program by completing the following tasks:
* Lead the design and development of AI/ML features supporting metadata enrichment, entity extraction, content classification, and semantic match
* Develop and integrate vector search, embeddings, RAG pipelines, and ML inference components into GEODS catalog services
* Contribute to all phases of the software development life cycle
* Write well-designed, testable, efficient, and maintainable code
* Ensure designs follow specifications approved by customer
* Contribute to planning and prioritization of work for future Program Increments
* Recommend changes to improve established application and organizational processes
* Prepare and produce releases of software components
* Support formal testing and resolution of defects
* Provide technical support and consultation for application and infrastructure defects and questions
* Provide Senior-level guidance to junior/mid-level developers, including technical reviews and mentoring
* Collaborate with Data Engineers, Architects, and Product Management on catalog roadmap items Work Environment, Physical Demands, and Mental Demands:
* Office environment, office demands, must be able to mentally attend for at least 8 hours a day

Other Responsibilities:

Safety - Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment. As appropriate, each employee is responsible for completing all training requirements and fulfilling all self-aid/buddy aid responsibilities, participating in emergency response tasks and serving on safety committees and teams. Quality - Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction.

It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts. Each employee must read and understand his/her Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction responsibilities. Procedure Compliance - Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and compliant work environment, Amentum is a drug-free workplace and requires all personnel to comply with company drug and alcohol policies as a condition of employment.

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the drug screening process. Please note that this may include pre-hire screening for marijuana, as well as other federally controlled substances due to Amentum's role as a federal contractor and trusted partner to the US Government.

Minimum Requirements (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities):
* At least 4 years demonstrated experience with software development using SAFe or similar Agile methodologies, to include working with Scrum Masters and/or Product Owners to decompose high level requirements into actionable user stories
* At least 4 years of demonstrated experience coding in Python or another language, preferably Java
* At least 4 years of demonstrated experience with Dev Sec Ops  and CI/CD, specifically utilizing Git Lab or similar Git repository
* At least 4 years of demonstrated experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform
* At least 4 years of demonstrated experience with Container and Orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Open Shift)
* Strong experience with AWS, including but not limited to EC2, Dynamo

DB, ECS, SQS/SNS, IAM, Lambda, and CDK
* Some experience with AI/ML, including at least one of:
* Embedding models (sentence-transformers, Titan, Sage Maker Jump Start models)
* RAG pipelines
* Vector stores (Open Search, Elasticsearch, Pinecone-like services)
* Metadata extraction and…