Responsibilities & QualificationsKey Responsibilities- Lead the design, development and analysis of customer operational and application systems
- Lead the maintenance efforts, including system enhancements, bug fixes, and security enhancements
- Integrate bug fixes, security enhancements and new capabilities as approved by the government
- Deliver forensic tool builds using agile processes to deliver incremental builds based upon agreed upon requirements
- Develop mechanism to seamlessly share results with other applications using common databases, schemas and object storage methods
- Develop intuited interfaces to exploit and discover relationships between multiple collections of data stored across multiple databases
- Establish and maintain an Application Programming Interface to enforce backwards compatibility with original source and streamline development and integration of new functional modules
- Assess and ensure software performance and reliability for all software modules and components including analytical and databases processes
- Integrate new data types and analytic tools, techniques, and methodologies for seized media
- Deploy and maintain software and hardware within customer environments
- Deploy/maintain forensic tool deployments within all designated development and operational environments, including ensuring the tool remains consistent with all policies, procedures, and requirements
Required Qualifications- Active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain Sensitive Compartmented Information access required.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
- 8 years of experience with Software Engineer
Preferred Qualifications- Technical experience in software development with a specialization in digital forensics and forensic tool development.
- Expert knowledge of forensic analysis techniques, file systems, data recovery, and evidence (handling best practices.
- Demonstrated experience in leading the design and architecture of complex forensic software solutions.
- Experience addressing the challenges associated with processing and analyzing petabytes of digital evidence from various sources.
- Proficiency in .Net programming languages as well as thin client front-end technologies.
- Familiarity with forensic standards and protocols, and an ability to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements for digital evidence handling.
- Extensive experience delivering forensic software deployed in the commercial cloud and capable of distributed processing.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing projects that span software development, cybersecurity, and IT infrastructure.
- Experienced strategic planner, with a demonstrated ability to set a vision for a forensic toolkit's development and ensure alignment with organizational mission and goals.
- Strong communication skills; must be able to articulate complex technical issues to a non-technical audience, including law enforcement officers, analysts, and government officials.
- Relevant certifications related to technical architecture, software development, or forensics preferred.
OverviewThe Software Engineer SME - Forensic Toolkit Lead Developer acts as a subject matter expert for forensic tool portions of the code base and provide senior-level design guidance while leading a team of developers to implement new features and resolve software issues.
This contract supports a government agency's capability to ingest, process, and analyze massive volumes of digital evidence into actionable intelligence. The program drives full lifecycle development, from building scalable applications and forensic tools to integrating enterprise services and maintaining hybrid cloud and classified infrastructure. The work ensures users can securely access, review, and collaborate on evidence in real time. This strengthens national security and investigative outcomes by combining advanced analytics, cloud technologies, and Agile delivery to give investigators faster, more reliable insight into complex digital evidence.
We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays.
Additional Job InformationWORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDSThe work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Location: Clarksburg, Clarksburg, WV (100% onsite for the first 3 months, with an possible opportunity for hybrid telecommute/onsite split after 3 months)
- Type of environment: Office
- Noise level: Medium
- Work schedule: Schedule is day shift Monday - Friday. May be requested to work evenings and weekends to meet program and contract needs.
- Amount of Travel: Less than 10%
PHYSICAL DEMANDSThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle, feel, touch; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is regularly required to lift up to 10 pounds. The employee is frequently required to lift up to 25 pounds; and up to 50 pounds. The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
WORK AUTHORIZATION/SECURITY CLEARANCE- U.S Citizenship Required
- Top Secret Clearance
OTHER DUTIESPlease note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
