Senior Software Engineer

NT Concepts is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team. Working at NT Concepts means that you are part of an innovative, agile company dedicated to solving the most critical challenges in National Security. We’re looking for the best and the brightest to join us in supporting this mission. If meaningful work, initiative, creativity, and continuous self-improvement are important to your career, join our growing team and discover What's Next for you.

Mission Focus: This program will provide support to maintain a responsive, flexible capability for rapid prototyping of data analytic solutions and capabilities (data integration, analysis, visualization, etc.) in support of national security mission requirements. This team will collaborate with multiple stakeholders to assure national security missions to continuously and rapidly prototype advanced data analytic capabilities to warfighters, as a service.

Clearance: TS/SCI

Location/Flexibility: Ft. Belvoir, VA with time spent at NT Concepts HQ in Tyson’s Corner, VA. (Some telework may be an option during the COVID Pandemic).

Responsibilities: 

• Support rapid prototyping leads and provide direction to software development teams with architecture designs and prototype solutions
• Contribute to software development solutions-oriented, agile scrum teams designing and developing custom applications and components to support innovative data analytic capabilities.
• Application design, development, testing, integration, and transition to production
• Enabling the DTRA mission through the development of applications from SharePoint-based to advanced data analytics leveraging AI/ML (future and with Data Science assistance)
• Work with stakeholders and end users to gather, develop and document requirements and manage them to execution
• Ensure effective communication with Government Product Managers and NT Concepts data science teams to enable quality performance, transparency, and accountability.
• Provide technical mentoring to junior staff members on the team
• Ensure end customers (Combatant Commands, Military Services (Army, Navy, Air Force, etc.), and Special Operation Force (SOF) are satisfied with delivered prototypes

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in science, engineering, or a related field with 10+ years of experience
• Expert knowledge of software engineering with an emphasis on data visualization and supervised/unsupervised machine learning, Agile software development practices
• Experience with automated workflow design for intelligence feed exploitation I support of tipping and queuing, fusion, targeting, and/or related analytic functions
• Exposure to DoD data analytic needs and associated tactical programs
• Working with and managing data science activities on rapid prototyping teams
• Data Science experience within DOD with a preference for DTRA.
• Experience as a consumer of all-source intelligence data, especially both national and tactical technical intelligence feeds, including an understanding of the sources of collection and processing error and limitations of the feeds
• Prior experience with DoD clients and methodological experience in some of the following areas
  • Relationships and discovery (correlating, enriching, and prioritizing target data)
  • Situational awareness (unifying data into a single context, allowing the current situation to be accurately and quickly understood)
  • Pattern recognition and anomaly detection, especially related to Significant Activities (SIGACTS) and SIGINT selector activity
  • Geospatial analysis and visualization of data
  • Leveraging APIs and backends to process intelligence feeds through automated means
• Experience with analyzing data across platforms from SharePoint & Desktop Python to Cloud-based to include CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to travel overseas in support of the DTRA mission as required
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• U.S. citizen with an Active TS/SCI security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding and experience working within the DTRA Research Directorate
• Exposure to the following toolsets: Sharepoint, Testflight, Attack the Network Toolsuite (ANTS), Voltron, JEMA, Catapult, Skope toolkit, ArcGIS, Analyst Notebook, CIDNE, SIGINT-specific tools
• Development experience on platforms across DoD and Intel (e.g. AWS, C2S, JCF, DI2E)
• Understanding of Combatant Commands, Military Services (Army, Navy, Air Force, etc.), and Special Operation Force (SOF) mission sets as they relate to countering weapons of mass destruction/ counter proliferation
• Thorough understanding of the SDLC
• Working experience within cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) environments

Physical Requirements: 

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer 
• Must be able to lift up to 10-15 pounds at times

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