Description

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The Leidos National Security Sector combines technology-enabled services and mission software capabilities in the areas of cyber, logistics, security operations, and decision analytics to support our defense and intel customers’ mission to defend against evolving threats around the world. Our team’s focus is to ensure our customers have the right tools, technologies, and tactics to keep pace with an ever-evolving security landscape and succeed in their pursuit to protect people and critical assets.

Your greatest work is ahead!

The National Security Sector at Leidos is currently hiring for a Software Engineer (SWE) for an Agile, cloud-based data, and analytics platform contract. This role will be responsible for developing customized software programs for system functionality, analyzing business and end-user requirements, designing functional software functionality using SecDevOps principles to address business/end-user requirements, modifying and/or re-configuring COTS software for system integration, documenting functional aspects of associated applications, and deploying software bug fixes and/or improvements to address evolving requirements. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work independently and as part of a team. This role is expected to be on-site at a Leidos facility in Gaithersburg, MD, with travel to various government sites in the Washington Metro Area. This opportunity is contingent upon contract award.

What you’ll be doing:

• Analyze customer requirements to integrate data into Azure Delta Lake COTS product. 
• Upgrade existing software as new increments are defined. 
• Debug existing software and correct defects.
• Design or implement complex data repository interfaces/queries.
• Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed data repositories.
• Write or review software and system documentation.
• Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards, confer with users or system engineers; analyze systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigate problem areas.
• Implement recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards.

What does Leidos need from me?

• Must be a U.S. citizen or have a Green Card.
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance (Background Investigation). 
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar and two to four years of prior relevant experience or Masters with less than two years of prior relevant experience.
• Apply understanding of technical issues surrounding the designing, building, and testing of software supporting applications, cloud platforms, and frameworks.
• Apply research skills to identify various methods and solutions to complex software challenges.
• Requires ability to apply standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques of technical domain.
• Addresses complex technical issues/problems using internal best practice and through collaboration with colleagues.
• Develops solutions to technical problems that require depth of technical knowledge.
• Experience in usage of Azure Cloud technologies and infrastructure.

Favorable if you have:

• At least two years of experience with Agile IT product delivery (Agile delivery experience must be within the last year), Agile Methodologies and Best Practices.
• Object-oriented programming languages (Python, Java, Scala, R, C++, etc.)
• Bash, Python scripting.
• Spark Framework.
• Azure Blob Storage, Data Factory, Databricks.
• Databases relational and non-relational (MySQL, PostGreSQL, NoSQL, MongoDB).
• Microsoft Azure cloud experience.
• Agile DevOps tools experience (GitLab, Jira, Confluence, etc.).
• Experience with visualization tools such as Databricks Dashboards, Power BI, and/or Tableau.

Original Posting Date:

2024-04-10

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $65,000.00 – $117,500.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.