Senior Developer | TS/SCI - Blackspoke

Springfield, VA

About the Job

Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation's safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats. Be part of an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of the nation's most critical intelligence organizations. Your work directly impacts national security and global issues, you will have the chance to contribute to missions that are of paramount importance to the United States and its allies, know that that the environments and programs you support are making a difference on a global scale. Our customers operate at the forefront of technology, dealing with some of the most advanced defense, geospatial, and intelligence systems in the world.

Customer Description

Our customer is an Intelligence Agency (IA) delivering world-class geospatial intelligence providing a decisive advantage to policymakers, war-fighters, intelligence professionals and first responders. The customer enables all these critical actions and shapes decisions impacting our world through the indispensable discipline of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT). Our customer is a unique combination of intelligence and combat support agency. It is the world leader in timely, relevant, accurate, and actionable GEOINT. This IA enables the U.S. intelligence community (IC) and the Department of Defense (DOD) to fulfill the president's national security priorities to protect the nation. Although GEOINT is the most critical data within this agency, all data that is produced, collected, and stored plays a supportive role in the day-to-day operations of our customer.

Program Description

BlackSpoke is the prime contractor on a program awarded to provide agile operations, adaptive maintenance, and minor enhancement services to support the maintenance, integration, and ingest of multiple business data sets into an analytic environment. This Intelligence Agency program is focused on human capital data, and also focused on activities to bring in other corporate business data sets such as; Information Technology, Cyber, Security, Financial, Contract, Customer Feedback, and Mission Management Activity. One goal for the program is to provide the Agency with the capability for a centralized authoritative data repository, refreshed automatically, from source systems of record and transaction databases along with a range of visualization tools for reporting and delivery to end-users.

Team Description

The Blackspoke Team consists of various experts within the IC that are highly focused on Cloud Architecture & Design, Data Architects & Scientists, Data Visualization Experts, User Interface & User Experience (UI/UX) Experts, Database Warehouse & Mining Experts, and Scrum Masters that will help achieve mission objectives.

Job Description

Senior Developer with experience in the design, deployment and support of a SQL based architecture as a foundation for a large data warehouse. Your role as a Senior Developer will be to work with the entire team to collect requirements, perform baseline performance captures, and optimize the future of the platform by designing and deploying a highly available, highly resilient SQL system in Amazon's JWICS version of AWS, called Commercial Cloud Service, 
or C2S. We support a data warehouse that ingests from 30+ separate data sources daily. Based on these data sets, our data warehouse provides the data that drives the analytics in use by the Data Scientists within the Agency.

Qualifications:

Active TS/SCI Clearance

Desired Core Skills:

Data Ingest – Extensive experience in building data integration pipelines using a variety of tools (SSIS, WhereScape, Nifi, etc.) to perform the automated ingest of data from multiple data sources, including databases (Oracle, mySQL, Informix, MSSQL, PostgreSQL), flat files, and API-based targets
Programming / code development – use of programming and code to automate data ingest functions for the extract and load of data using Visual Studio, C#, Python, etc.
Cloud Native Data Management – Familiarity with cloud-native data warehousing capabilities, including RDS, EMR, DynamoDB, Redshift, etc.
Big Data Toolsets – Familiarity with big data technologies, especially open-source projects such as Apache Hadoop, Spark, Casandra, Kafka, Storm, Pig, etc.

What you will get: 

Joining a team of technology experts and partners in the same mission 
A high-growth environment with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as the company grows
Owner and Leadership team that come from technical backgrounds so they understand the day-to-day challenges of the technical consulting world and can offer real-life solutions and guidance 
Highly competitive benefits package that shows we want to hire the very best

Location: Springfield, VA
US Citizenship Required

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. Individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans or veterans with service-connected disabilities, are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance applying outside of the online application, please contact recruiting@blackspoke.com for more information.

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Source : Blackspoke