Senior Application Developer

Job Description BAE Systems is offering an exciting opportunity to support an important and dynamic Department of Justice customer as an Application Developer supporting a highly capable and diverse team driving technical innovation. The successful candidate should independently be able to develop and code software applications that provide needed capabilities in support of customer mission related activities. The Application Developer will Design, develop, refactor, enhance, test and evaluate, and support software applications currently hosted on-premises to be hosted within a cloud environment instance compliant with customer policy directives (PD) and guides (PG) mandated to ensure legal and information security compliance. This will include analysis of the existing system in collaboration with other team members and Government PM, and designing an appropriate solution. Successful candidates should be skilled in multiple web application languages, reverse engineering, and have a strong background in building scalable, user intuitive, high-quality and high performing web applications ranging from a high mid-level and a senior. The customer application enhancements or modifications may include business and process changes to applications/systems as well as coordination with other integrated and non-integrated software systems. The Application Developer will work alongside infrastructure, development, and managerial team members to troubleshoot and resolve issues. The Developer will:

1. (U) Support the Government’s effort to obtain and maintain an authority-to- operate (ATO) and protect the security posture of the program systems and applications;
2. (U) Possess exceptional interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills;
3. (U) Instruct and mentor junior development team members;
4. (U) Provide Government personnel instruction, guidance, and documentation; and
5. (U) Willingness to learn new technical disciplines and to become a resident expert within a team.
6. (U) If requested, be able to attend CCB meetings with the Government as a subject matter expert (SME).

Required Education, Experience, & Skills *The candidate must have an Active TS Security clearance and willing to undergo a Counter Intelligence Polygraph after onboarding. Candidate will not be considered without it.

(U) Minimum Education: Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Degree in Computer Science, Software Development, Information Systems or related field of study, or in lieu of education, six (6) additional years of relevant experience.

(U) Minimum/General Experience:
** Priority experience is with C#, React, .Net, and GitLab

1. (U) Five (5) or more years of experience as a software developer in building multi-tier framework software applications using object-oriented programming languages, such as Java and Python;
2. (U) One (1) or more years of experience with cloud (AWS preferred) application development and management;
3. (U) Experience migrating on-premises hosted applications to the cloud (AWS preferred);
4. (U) Experience developing cloud native applications (AWS preferred);
5. (U) Experience developing SOAP and REST APIs in a client/server environment (i.e., Java, Python, etc.);
6. (U) Experience writing and evaluating regular expressions;

6. (U) Experience developing, debugging and/or refactoring code for popular programming languages (i.e., Java, Python, etc.);
7. (U) Experience with scripting command line tools (e.g., Vim, Bash, PowerShell, etc.) to automate command tasks;
1. (U) Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM);
10. (U) Knowledge of web-related technologies HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS;
11. (U) Experience with any major database (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server);

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Preferred Skills are listed below:
• a. One (1) or more years of experience with application development leveraging a SQL and/or PostgreSQL database as data storage;
• b. Two (2) or more years of experience with cloud (AWS preferred) application development and management;
• c. Experience in gathering and analyzing requirements and direct interaction with a Government customer (e.g., gathering metrics for reporting);
• d. Experience developing Section 508 compliant applications;
• e. Experience in a Government client environment and working alongside a Government PM in assisting with project goals and direction of development team;
• f. Ability to design, develop, troubleshoot, and test software to satisfy requirements;
• g. Ability to oversee and guide junior and mid-level team members with project work, including defining upcoming goals, in-depth requirements evaluation and planning, detailed task write-ups, and code reviews.
• h. Experience with integrating and troubleshooting complex software interactions/interconnections between infrastructures that traverse between firewalls and cross-domain systems to other enterprise systems or services;
• i. Experience leading an Agile development environment with short duration tasking;
• j. Experience writing optimized database queries and stored procedures;
• k. Experience presenting change requests to the Configuration Control Board (CCB) for approval prior to making changes to application configurations once deployed to production; and

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $130355 - $221603

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
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