Software Engineer

Job Summary: 

This position provides on-site software engineering, research, development, and test support to DIA/ST/ATI-7 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS), Florida. Seeking resourceful and innovative engineers with experience developing software for embedded systems, backend development and database architecture. The selected individuals must be adaptable, innovative, creative, and ready to lead their organization on mission critical projects. Applicants are expected to approach problem solving with logical, yet creative ideas.
Responsibilities:

• Provides support for in-house technology development initiatives, including feasibility assessments of proposals and ongoing projects by other parties in government, academia, and industry. 
• Determine database structural requirements by analyzing customer’s operations, applications, and programming.
• Administer the overall data warehouse strategy, architectures and security, definition of data models, all data marts, evaluation of infrastructure components, software, performance, and data applications design.
• Design and develop high volume data ingestion components and ETL solutions to collect data from various internal and external sources.
• Review objectives with customer and team.
• Evaluate current systems.
• Recommend data governance processes, security standards, and models that will provide architectural guidelines to support the development initiatives.
• Implement database systems by developing flowcharts; applying optimum access techniques; coordinating installation actions; documents actions.
• Provide database support by coding utilities, respond to user questions, and resolve problems.
• Ability to work in multiple programming languages including but not limited to C, C++, JAVA, Python, JavaScript, C#. Client/server programming on both ends. Graphical User Interface development.
• Must be able to interact with development and infrastructure teams.

Requirements

Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen. 
• Must have an active TS/SCI clearance with willingness to do a CI Poly.
• BS degree or higher with 6+ years of related experience.
• Proven experience in software development and software support.
• Software development in a classified environment.
• Experience in React, Angular, ExtJS. 
• System architecture (understanding of Unix/AIX, MS SQL Server, and NT systems as relates to Data Warehouse infrastructure)
• Must be comfortable Presenting Technical Information to captive audience. 
• Ability to create customized code to perform data harvesting, processing, exploitation, and formatting. Including the ability to work code solutions which utilize data from multiple sites, sensors and/or data types.
• Embedded programming in Linux and Arduino/C. 

Must have experience in the following: 

• Database Design
• Data Maintenance
• Database Security
• Database Management
• Data labeling, relationships, cleansing & data correlation.
• Requirements Analysis
• Operating Systems 
• JIRA/Azure DevOps

Preferred Requirements:

• Federal Cloud Computing Strategy and Standards.
• Knowledge and expertise in user access control for secure access to information systems.
• Experience in ML/AI. 
• Experience with Big Data technologies, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Redshift, etc.
• Data Science
• Full-stack Developer
• Active Directory integration 
• Experience with classified development platforms

Benefits

Blackhawk offers generour paid time off, 401K with company match, as well as great priced healthcare insurance.