About the job:

Performing as part of an Agile Software Development team using Jira for requirements tracking, the selected candidate will perform a Software Engineering activities in support of our client. The team’s responsibilities revolve around using new technologies to ensure the compliance of interactions and accesses between various enterprise systems. The Software Engineer, working closely within this 6 person team will learn from and share knowledge with this inquisitive, fun, and hardworking team.Performing as part of an Agile Software Development team using Jira for requirements tracking, the selected candidate will perform a Software Engineering activities in support of our client. The team’s responsibilities revolve around using new technologies to ensure the compliance of interactions and accesses between various enterprise systems. The Software Engineer, working closely within this 6 person team will learn from and share knowledge with this inquisitive, fun, and hardworking team.
Requirements:
• Seven (7) years’ experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. 
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science ore related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) additional years of SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Demonstrated experience in architecting, designing, developing solutions using the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash andKibana) stack -- not limited to but including analytics and machine learning
• Demonstrated experience in SQL and writing complex queries with joins and aggregate that deals with large datasets.
• Demonstrated experience with Python 2.x 
 • Demonstrated experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
• Experience leading design and implementation of new stories and bug fixes
• Experience performing thorough design reviews and code reviews
• Hands on Java development, Junit testing and issue troubleshooting
• Experience working in an Agile based development environment, using Agile concepts
• Understanding and comfort with enterprise frameworks for dependency injection, object relational mapping and logging (Spring Framework, Hibernate, SLF4J) 
 • Familiarity with Build Management, Continuous Integration, and Automated Testing (Maven, Jenkins)
• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements
• Debug existing software and correct defects
• Provide recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards
• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features
• Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments
• Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories
• Write or review software and system documentation
•Serve as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular project• Design or implement complex database or data repository interfaces/queries
• Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards
• Assist with developing and executing test procedures for software components
• Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards, confer with users or system engineers; analyze systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigate problem areas
• Modify existing software to correct errors, to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance
• Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design
• Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints; Perform quality control on team products
• Implement recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards
• Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project
• Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces
• Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure operational specifications are met
• Clearance: Applicants must be U.S. Citizens possessing an active TS/SCI security clearance with a Polygraph.
Desired:
• Demonstrated experience with Map/Reduce and/or Hadoop, Hive, and/or Pig
• Architecture and design of ElasticSearch
• Machine Learning in ElasticSearch
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD area.

About us: Collaboration is the fusion of people and ideas toward a common goal; and at CollabraSpace it’s part of everything we do. It's the foundation upon which Collabraspace was created, at the core of our corporate philosophy, and even represented in our logo where different pieces of one circle work together. As a technical services and product company, Collabraspace supports the critical mission of our nation’s security through ongoing collaboration with our team members, customers, and partners.

Across our 20 programs we provide enterprise software development solutions and real-time collaboration to both government and private industry. CollabraSpace is headquartered in Annapolis Junction, MD, close to the majority of our work and therefore, close to you.

CollabraSpace Facts:

• Team. At CollabraSpace, we truly believe in the team. We’ll always do our best to find a position that makes you happy to go to work every day, support the charitable causes that are important to you, and encourage your involvement with the company by providing events for the whole family.
• Security. We offer competitive salaries but more than that, we make sure the salary we are offering you can be supported by multiple programs. Why is that important? See bullet #1; if you’re not happy we will do our best to find something that does make you happy.
• Benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package means you pay very little for a full suite of coverage.
• 100% company paid premiums for Health and Dental plans for employees and eligible dependents.
• 100% company paid Life & Disability plans.
• 401(k) & Roth plan with company contribution immediately vested.
• Annual bonus plan, spot bonuses for a job well done, and referral bonuses.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) allowing you to use your time off as you see fit.
• Formal education and training benefits.
• Transparency. You have heard it before but here you’ll truly experience it. The management team “puts it all on the table” and always has an open door.
• Training and Education. It’s part of our collaborative environment. Besides the traditional off-site training which we pay for upfront, CollabraSpace offers in-house Technical Exchanges on a range of topics presented by our own technical staff or industry partners.
• Honors.  We earned the Alliance for Workplace Excellence Award for 4 years running and have been named to the Baltimore Sun’s Top 100 Workplaces 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018; an award given based on survey responses from our team members. We are consistently ranked as one of the Top IT Firms in Baltimore by the Baltimore Business Journal. 

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CollabraSpace is an equal opportunity employer. Employment policies and decisions on employment and promotion are based on merit, qualifications, performance, and business needs. The decisions and criteria governing the employment relationship with all employees are made in a nondiscriminatory manner, without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other factor determined to be unlawful by federal, state, or local statutes.

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