Senior Software Engineer

at  Leidos

Description
As the largest provider of IT services, Leidos develops and sustains large data and technology infrastructures and integrates complex law enforcement IT system for several US federal agencies. At Leidos we offer engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals and growth. This role would be serving a federal law enforcement agency in Huntsville, Alabama.
Responsible for the design, development, testing, and management of the application development projects in support of IT infrastructure. This includes the programmatic integration of third-party components, the introduction of new custom capabilities, modification of existing code, process improvement recommendation, and automation of operations and maintenance tasks. Develop and implement technical efforts to design, build, and deploy applications at the direction of lead architects, including large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modeling, and advanced analytics. Participate in all aspects of the software development life cycle for all solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance. Duties include technical project milestone reviews, code architecture sessions, resource estimation, and development best practices knowledge transfer.
Be part of an agile team that is responsible for maintaining a collection of computer-based applications and techniques designed to assist linguists, analysts, and agents in quickly organizing, searching, extracting, and translating foreign language data.
Primary Responsibilities:
oPossesses and applies a comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments.
oPlans and leads major technology assignments.
oEvaluates performance results and recommends major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.
oFunctions as a technical expert across multiple project assignments
oDecision making and domain knowledge may have a critical impact on overall project implementation.
oMay supervise others.
Basic Qualifications:
oBachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems
oManagement, other related discipline, or equivalent experience; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
o8-12 years of prior relevant experience or master’s with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience.
oAbility to work well within a small agile team environment
oStrong communication skills
oUS Citizenship
Preferred Qualifications:
oExperience with Node.js, Angular JS, HTML, CSS, Java Script, Bootstrap, d3, AJAX, Visual Studio, other skills include RubyGems, Python, Redhat Linux
oExperience supporting users in bulk data processing with machine translation, speech to text and OCR tools to include parsing and normalizing data
oExperience in installation, configuration, and optimization of Machine Translation software - Systran, Language Weaver and MS Translator and OCR software - Tesseract and AWS Textract.
oExperience in working with AI/ML GPU technologies such as Nvidia.
oExtensive knowledge in administration of servers with embed GPUs running on RedHat Linux operating system.
oDOD Top Secret Clearance is required.

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