Backend ISR Developer (TS/SCI)

Job Description

Introduction

As a Backend ISR Developer at IBM, you will play a crucial role in transforming our clients’ data into tangible business value by analyzing information, communicating outcomes, and collaborating on product development. You will work with best-in-class open source and visual tools, along with the most flexible and scalable deployment options. Whether it’s investigating patient trends or weather patterns, you will work to solve real-world problems for the industries transforming how we live.

Your Role and Responsibilities

IBM provides analytic consulting services to the US Government. The team has innovated a classified data service to support data-intensive assessment of Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) system performance and effectiveness. We are seeking a backend developer/architect to improve existing and innovate new features for a classified ISR data and analytics service.

Responsibilities Will Include:

• Improve algorithm performance, improve data quality, incorporate new datasets, and enable new analytics.
• Maintain a polyglot database environment, extend event-driven micro-services, and insert new technologies as appropriate to achieve stakeholder-desired capabilities.
• Interface with the client, stakeholders, military personnel, and data providers to ensure stakeholder buy-in and populate backlog for future innovation.

This role is located onsite in the Washington DC area (primarily in Reston, VA).

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• US Citizen with active TS//SCI clearance or show immediate eligibility according to JPAS security database.
• 2+ years of Python programming experience.
• 2+ years of experience architecting, designing, or programming applications in hybrid cloud or on-prem environments.
• Experience with employing, customizing, optimizing, and/or managing NoSQL database technology.
• Experience with custom ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) development (vice employing off-the-shelf solutions, e.g., Apache Nifi).
• Experience with designing algorithms to infer relationships between events or entities.
• Experience with designing validation and/or diagnostic approaches to ensure strong data quality.

Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

• Experience coding in operational military and/or intelligence networks or settings.
• Experience with employing, customizing, optimizing, and/or managing MongoDB.
• Experience with Celery or analogous asynchronous task queue technologies.
• Experience with algorithmic development that merges, standardizes, and links related data sources.
• Skills with implementing and customizing ElasticSearch for text search use cases.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins).
• Experience with gathering operational and intelligence data from classified DoD systems.
• Experience with national or military intelligence capabilities and their use.
• Experience with transitioning on-prem capabilities to cloud.
• Experience with natural language processing (NLP) or other techniques to extract value out of unstructured data.
• Data visualization experience using JavaScript (such as Chart.js or D3).
• Experience with MVC frameworks (e.g., React.js), Node.js, and Web API design.

About IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason, and science, we can improve business, society, and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.