Software Developer, Mid | TS/SCI

Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nations 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 Presidents 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

This is an exciting opportunity to join a large GEOINT based contract used for search and dissemination across the Intel Community. Hosted in AWS, this system is a set of computer services that allows users to search and discover different types of GEOINT data that comes from different sources, whether it's internal to this Intel Agency or from other external sources. The system is comprised of various components that will be supported by two task orders. One of the task orders is to maintain all the existing services, the compute, the software and various components that allow the system to function. The second task order is an engineering and architecture task order that provides software engineering, devops and site reliability services to help modernize and fast-track the future of the overall system.

Team Description

Blackspoke is a trusted member of a larger team of strategic partners. This contract was just awarded and has the full 5-year contract life remaining. Work is to be performed onsite in Government and Contractor SCIF space in Springfield, VA and Arnold, MO.

What you will be working on:

As the Software Developer Mid, you will:

• Design, develop, evaluate, plan, and test software programs and applications.
• Conduct requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability, and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG), and Federal Agencies.
• Conduct planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
• Develop solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology and mentor Junior Engineers in developing these skill sets.
• Support the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.
• Assist the Government in performing systems integration activities.
• Assist with Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.
• Assist the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management, and interface design.
• Solve complex problems, lead a team(s), and work independently and proactively under Senior Systems Engineer supervision.
• Create sustainable software applications with efficient branching strategies, accurate estimations, and well-maintained code repositories.
• Work as a member of an agile scrum team and participate in regular agile ceremonies applying scrum methodologies daily stand up, planning, sprint reviews, demos, retrospectives.
• Implement requirements from the product backlog.
• Assist in writing backlog requirements/user stories.
• Utilize a modern DevSecOps approach in building software applications.
• Develop and modify applications, software, services, utilities, interfaces, and IT systems that support systems and analysts.

What you will bring to us (Must):

• 6+ years of experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems engineering, or any related field/major, or 4 additional years of experience in information technology.
• Proficiency with packages such as BASH, CSS, DOS_BATCH, HTML, Java, JavaScript, PHP, PYTHON, SQL, XML, and Indexing/Search Technologies.

What you will bring to us (Highly Desired):

• Technical certification such as Network +, Security +, Oracle, or specializing in Software Development or Cloud Computing.

What you will get:

• The opportunity to work on critical high-impact projects that contribute to national security.
• A high-growth environment with numerous opportunities for professional growth.
• A collaborative team environment that values innovation and efficiency.
• A competitive benefits package that underscores our commitment to attracting and retaining top talent.