Ampcus Inc · 3 months ago
Information Technology - Lead Software Engineer
Reston, VA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
10+ years expAmpcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. They are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to perform complex analysis, design, development, and testing of software systems. The role involves leading a team, managing technical resources, and mentoring junior engineers.
Data ManagementInformation Technology
Responsibilities
Lead a team of software engineers in the design, development, and implementation of multiple applications. Performs and leads the detail technical design, coding, code review and testing of new applications and enhancements of existing applications. Serves as a subject matter expert for specified systems and their subsequent applications. Develop and/or analyze interface design documentation. Comply with hardware and software systems standards and procedures. Deliver large systems for tens of thousands of users. Ensures compliance to the dev/sec/ops practices and policies. Understanding of architectural practices and design
Identifies gaps in requirements and solves problems for the supporting staff. Identifies sequencing of services and technologies that are integrated in later phases of the project. Leads the evaluation of risk and opportunity impacts to existing or proposed projects/programs and implements risk mitigation actions. Develops ways to improve performance and increase system availability. Provides recommendations to infuse new technology. Compile, assess, and report data results from software testing and analysis
Supports the Project Manager as the technical team lead on the project. Estimates the technical costs of projects for clients and project managers. Confers with clients to identify requirements and determine desired outcomes to formulate the design of the system or offer alternatives. Demonstrated experience with front-end and back-end programming and integration frameworks and tools. Assist in the estimation of development of application features
Leads software design and development teams. Identifies, analyzes, defines, and coordinates user, customer, and stakeholder needs and translates them into technical requirements. Manages technical resources (hardware, software, licenses, and services). Plans and leads transformation initiatives to new software architectures. Extend open-source libraries and systems as necessary to meet the needs of the team. Play a crucial role in product scoping and roadmap / architecture discussions. Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices. Ensure code quality, deployment standards and practices. Mentoring junior developers
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science
At least 10 years in Software design and development, software test and evaluation, software requirements management
7 years of strong programming background with Java/Python/Scala
At least 3 years of experience working on Data Integration projects using Hadoop MapReduce, Sqoop, Oozie, Hive, Spark and other related Big Data technologies
At least 2 years of experience on AWS preferably leveraging services such as Lambda, S3, Redshift, Glue services
Some working 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
Good shell scripting experience
Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices, ability to write reusable code components
Preferred
Healthcare experience
Cloudera Developer certification
Company
Ampcus Inc
Ampcus is a global business, technology consulting and an staff augmentation firm specializing in AI/ML,digital solutions, Cybersecurity & Risk management, Testing, Forensics & Fraud services and human capital management.
1001-5000 employees
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