Software Developer - Senior

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• 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.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 8 years of work experience or Associate's Degree with a minimum of 12 years of experience.
• 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.

Desired qualifications/non-essential skills required:

• 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.

High-level technical objectives include, but are not limited to the following:

• Migrate all current-system functionality from the mainframes and operate within a cloud-based environment (AWS Gov Cloud)
• Transition investigative search to Elasticsearch, providing a faster response and report creation time for law enforcement
• Build new services to follow a microservices architecture and run within containers using the Open Shift platform.