Modern Mission Software Engineer

Overview

BAI, a defense contractor, is seeking a Pega Developer with 5+ years of experience, to support a Unified Engagement Environment, at Annapolis Junction, MD. Opportunities for career advancement, excellent benefits and long-term stability are some of the advantages of our growing, employee-focused company.

Salary

The typical annual salary range for this position is $150,000.00 USD to $200,000.00 USD. Salary will be based on current qualifications, directly related experience, geographic location, and possible contractual requirements which could fall outside of this range.

Responsibilities

• Supports a team of developers implementing multiple workflow products in a customer portfolio
• Collaborates with system, software, and UI/UX engineers to design, develop, deploy, operate, and manage workflows hosted on a large scale, enterprise application built on the Pega Platform
• Collaborates with system, DevOps, and UI/UX engineers to ensure workflows are security compliant, accessibility compliant, and meet minimum performance requirements
• Candidates will be required to work a rotating pager schedule for emergency 24/7 call-in support as required (roughly one week out of every 6-8 weeks)
• Staff may charge 4 additional hours for the week they are on call in addition to hours worked
• Shall have at least five (5) years’ experience as a Software Engineer in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, or problem diagnosis/resolution.The individual must be able to communicate directions and provide guidance to junior programmer/analysts, as required
• Provides expert support, analysis and research into exceptionally complex problems, and processes relating to the subject matter
• Serves as technical expert on executive-level project teams providing technical direction, interpretation and alternatives. Thinks independently and demonstrates exceptional written and oral communications skills
• Applies advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts
• Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts
• Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious
• Works under consultative direction toward predetermined long-range goals and objectives
• Assignments are often self-initiated. Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results
• Develops advanced technological ideas and guides their development into a final product
• Expertise is in a particular area of Mission Information Technology (e.g., Information Systems Architecture, Telecommunications Systems Design, Architecture, Implementation, Information Systems Integration, Software Development Methodologies, Security Engineering, Communications and Network Systems Management)

Qualifications

• Candidates MUST have experience with Pega development
• Candidates must submit the date of their most recent polygraph
• Customer cannot accept CCA candidates for this position

Desired

• Shall have familiarity with four or more of the skills and technologies listed in Table 1.

Skills 

Front End User Interface (UI) Development, Middle-Tier Development, Back-End Development, Full Stack Development, Data Modeling, DevOps, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), “wrapping” legacy systems or components as Web Services within a SOA framework 

Commercial Technologies 

Accumulo, ActiveMQ, Adage, Akka, Angular, Apache, ASP.NET, Atlassian, Backbone, Bootstrap, CentOS, CoffeeScript, CSS, Eclipse, Elastic, ExtJS, Git, Gradle, Hadoop, Hibernate, Highcharts, HTML, IDE, IntelliJ, Firebug, Java, JavaScript, Jira/Confluence, jQuery, JSON, Maven, MongoDB, MBatis, MySQL, Node.js, Oracle, Postgres, React, Redis, RESTful Web Services, Scala, Selenium, Sencha Architect, SOAP Web Services, Spring, Spring MVC/Beans, SQL, Squirrel, Subversion, Tomcat, Twitter, Web Security, XML 

Government Technologies 

ASDF, CASPORT, GHOSTMACHINE, GOLDPOINT, Impala, ISLAND TRANSPORT, MASH, MDR-2, NETBACKUP, NiFi, Ozone Widget Framework, PKI Certificate Administration, SEAR, THECATALOG, TOOLMETRICS, TUEARTH, Xacta 

Table 1: Desired Experience, Skills and Technologies

EDUCATION

Degree: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university. 

Allowable Substitution: Four (4) years of additional SWE experience may be substituted for a Bachelor’s degree. Master’s degree can be substituted for two (2) years’ experience.

CLEARANCE – fully cleared TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph

Condition of Employment:  Applicant must have an active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph Clearance. Polygraphs must have been completed within the last seven years. The applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

CITIZENSHIP

The applicant must have US citizenship at the time of application.

BAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other non-merit based factors made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.