Job Description

Research Innovations, Inc. (RII) is breaking through the big, slow, status quo with transformative technology that fundamentally changes and improves the world. We develop cutting-edge software for all levels of the government and military. Using agile development practices and user-centered design, we create innovative software solutions for complex real-world problems.

We are looking for a committed Software Engineer to join our Analytics team. Solve unique, challenging problems for our Defense and Homeland Security customers. Help manage large volumes of critical, real-time information about issues from global to local. Get s#it done.

This position requires the ability to obtain a US Secret clearance; TS/SCI Desired. Active clearance not required to apply.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

Establish, maintain, and enhance an analytics architecture in support of several customer projects
Be the engineering point-person for ingest, storage, and analytical capabilities and technologies
Maintain awareness of the current and emerging capabilities in analytics technologies and how these apply to our customer challenges
Develop captivating solutions by collaborating with customers and the broader RII development team
Work with team members to provide microservice based solutions that power compelling UI components
Document use cases, solutions, and recommendations for our customers

WHAT YOU HAVE DONE

BS in Computer Science, equivalent degree, or previous work experience
Worked with NoSQL databases and distributed indexing systems (Elasticsearch or SOLR)
Developed scalable ingest/ETL pipelines using distributed messaging systems such as Kafka or AMQP solutions
Experience in developing and deploying Java and Python-based software architectures
Experience in deploying advanced analytics capabilities (e.g. natural language processing, deep learning) in high data velocity settings
Experience in Linux administration and in runtime configuration management and automated deployment using tools such as Ansible
Excellent general understanding of Linux operating systems, distributed systems, microservices, and database technologies
Excellent general understanding of ETL and data analytics platforms
Experience in understanding and decomposing system level requirements into discrete and measurable tasks
Experience with Agile Methodologies and supporting technologies enabled by Atlassian products

EVEN BETTER

MS or PhD in Computer Science, equivalent degree, or work experience
Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment concepts
Experience with flow based programming concepts and Enterprise Integration Patterns
Experience with integration platforms and routing mediation engines such as Apache NiFi and Apache Camel
Experience with the Spring ecosystem of tools (Spring Cloud, Spring Boot)
Experience with the BigTable family of columnar stores (HBase, Cassandra, Accumulo)
Experience creating Big Data solutions using public, private, and hybrid cloud approaches
Experience with integration methodologies and tools for Big Data applications and services
Experience with data quality and data profiling tools
Experience with data analytics profiling and performance analysis

Valid through: 5/27/2021