Terms of Employment
• W2 Contract-to-Hire, 12 months
• This is a hybrid schedule at Reston, VA, Candidates must reside in Maryland, Washington, DC, or Virginia
Responsibilities
• Works closely with Architects, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Value Stream Managers to provide insight into delivering business value and meeting objectives.
• Decomposes functional and technical requirements into project activities and tasks and provides conceptual design, prototype, and test cycles appropriate to a chosen technical solution.
• Identifies technical risks and develops mitigation strategies; introduces and recommends industry best practices and standards for the project.
• Evaluates and assists in the selection and procurement of hardware and software technologies and serves as a mentor for junior developers.
• Works with stakeholders as well as technical and analytical counterparts to define constraints and develop requirements and concept of operations documentation.
Required Skills & Experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science.
• 10 years in Software design and development, software test and evaluation, software requirements management.
• 7+ years of strong programming background with Java/Python/Scala
• 3+ years of experience working on Data Integration projects using Hadoop MapReduce, Sqoop, Oozie , Hive, Spark and other related Big Data technologies
• 2+ years of experience on AWS preferably leveraging services such as Lambda, S3, Redshift, Glue services
• Experience building Kafka based data ingestion/retrieval programs
• Experience tuning Hadoop/Spark/hive parameters for optimal performance
• Strong SQL query writing and data analysis skills
• Excellent Shell scripting experience
• Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices, ability to write reusable code components
• Knowledge of cloud technologies ( e.g. AWS, Azure)
• Knowledge of database technologies (e.g. cloud, SQL, Oracle, Mongo DB, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Fundamental knowledge of software engineers’ best practices, agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of test-first practices including Test-Driven Development (TDD) for unit tests and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) for automated acceptance tests.
• Strong experience with Deployment/Continuous Integration/ Continuous Testing/ Continuous Delivery processes and tools and has expertise in CI/CD tools and framework.
• Experience with deploying a global application and configuration management.
• Reviewing the work of other developers and providing feedback.
• Ability to communicate technical requirements to all levels of expertise.
• Proficient in establishing and maintaining good working relationships.
• Knowledge and understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Proficient with integrating complex and/or existing systems.
• Knowledge of programming languages (e.g. JavaScript, C, Python, etc.).
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
nTech is an equal opportunity employer. All offers of employment are contingent upon pre-employment drug and background screenings. Only candidates who meet all of the above client requirements will be contacted by a recruiter.