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Description of Task to be Performed:
AnaVation is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join an impactful and rewarding work program. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership and guidance across all tasks on the contract and oversee technical and operational delivery in conjunction with the Program Manager. Other responsibilities include:
• Act as a subject matter expert for forensic tool portions of the customer code base and provide senior level design guidance while leading a team of developers to implement new features and resolve software issues.
• Lead the design, development and analysis of customer operational and application systems.
• Lead 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 customer requirements.
• Develop mechanisms to seamlessly share results with other customer 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 customer designated development and operational environments, including ensuring the tool remains consistent with all policies, procedures, and requirements.
This position is on site with our customer in Clarksburg, WV or Northern Virginia and cannot be supported remotely. Candidates must be able to commute to the customer location on a daily basis. Relocation assistance is not available.
This position requires an active Top-Secret clearance and the ability to obtain SCI access with a CI polygraph.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related field of study
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in software engineering.
- An active Top Secret clearance and the ability to obtain SCI access with a CI polygraph, if requested by the government. Candidates without Top Secret clearances cannot be considered.
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Relevant certifications related to technical architecture or software engineering preferred.
Benefits
· Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
· 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
· 100% company paid long-term and short term disability insurance
· 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
· 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
· Competitive Pay
· Generous paid leave and holiday package
· Tuition and training reimbursement
· Life and AD&D Insurance
About AnaVation
AnaVation is the leader in solving the most complex technical challenges for collection and processing in the U.S. Federal Intelligence Community. We are a US owned company headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. We deliver groundbreaking research with advanced software and systems engineering that provides an information advantage to contribute to the mission and operational success of our customers. We offer complex challenges, a top-notch work environment, and a world-class, collaborative team.
If you want to grow your career and make a difference while doing it, AnaVation is the perfect fit for you!
AnaVation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
