BlueHalo is hiring an Experienced Software Engineer to join our prime program in Maryland. BlueHalo is a leading provider of advanced engineering and technology solutions that address the complex challenges faced by the intelligence sector. Known for our commitment to innovation and excellence, we aim to deliver high-impact, sustainable solutions that ensure the safety and success of our clients' missions. By joining our team, you'll collaborate with industry experts who are dedicated to making a difference through cutting-edge technology and research.

As an Experienced Software Engineer, you will work in a small close-knit and agile software development team, while using new technologies to ensure the compliance of interactions and accesses between various enterprise systems.

 

A typical day and responsibilities may include:

• Analyzing user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements.
• Debugging existing software and correct defects.
• Provide recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards.
• Designing and coding new software or modifying existing software to add new features.
• Integrating existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments.
• Developing simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories.
• Writing or reviewing software and system documentation.
• Serving as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular project.
• Designing or implementing complex database or data repository interfaces/queries.
• Developing or implementing algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards.
• Assisting with developing and executing test procedures for software components.
• Developing software solutions by analyzing system performance standards, conferring with users or system engineers; analyzing systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigating problem areas.
• Modifying existing software to correct errors, to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance.
• Designing, developing and modifying software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.
• Designing or implementing complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints; Performing quality control on team products.
• Implementing recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards.
• Overseeing one or more software development teams and ensuring the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project.
• Conferring with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
• Coordinating software system installation and monitoring equipment functioning to ensure operational specifications are met.

• Seven (7) years’ experience as a Software Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) additional years of SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Demonstrated experience in architecting, designing, developing solutions using the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) stack -- not limited to but including analytics and machine learning.
• Demonstrated experience in SQL and writing complex queries with joins and aggregate that deals with large datasets.
• Demonstrated experience with Python 2.x.
• Demonstrated experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
• Experience leading design and implementation of new stories and bug fixes.
• Experience performing thorough design reviews and code reviews.
• Hands on Java development, Junit testing and issue troubleshooting.
• Experience working in an Agile based development environment, using Agile concepts.
• Understanding and comfort with enterprise frameworks for dependency injection, object relational mapping and logging (Spring Framework, Hibernate, SLF4J).
• Familiarity with Build Management, Continuous Integration, and Automated Testing (Maven, Jenkins).

Nice to Have's:

• Demonstrated experience with Map/Reduce and/or Hadoop, Hive, and/or Pig.
• Architecture and design of ElasticSearch.
• Machine Learning in ElasticSearch.

TS/SCI with Poly

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