Software Engineer III (Ref: 21039/575)

Altamira brings a commercial mindset to solving the most complex national security problems by delivering mission application development, multi-intelligence analysis, and data science technologies and solutions to the defense, intelligence, and homeland security communities. Altamira’s culture of innovation and excellence, and mid-market-size, positions us as the premier next generation leader bringing technology solutions to mission.

Altamira is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Altamira is seeking an experienced Software Engineer III. This work is to be performed at our client's facility in Herndon, VA.

You will need experience with agile software methodology, and software engineering design best practices. The candidate will work within a cross-functional Scrum team, and will be responsible for developing software, participating in acceptance criteria development, creating scripts and utilizing Open Source and COTS tools to automate testing, documenting instructions, and participating in integration activities.

• Performs software engineering and development activities associated with supporting, maintaining, and enhancing software using an Agile DevSecOps model
• Develops and integrates bug fixes and new feature enhancements using DIA standard development tools and processes (e.g., Java, Jira, Git, Junit).
• Designs and develops APIs and data access services for data feeds, and integrates microservices using the API gateway to enable enterprise access to data
• Supports trade studies/analyses of alternatives and assessments of potential technologies that may be applicable to the system, and provides recommendations

Required Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience OR a Master’s degree with 3 years of relevant experience OR a PhD with 0 years of relevant experience; an additional 4 years of experience maybe considered in lieu of a degree requirement (higher or lower levels accepted based on years of experience)
• Enterprise Service Bus (or API Gateway equivalent) product
• Web Services/SOAP
• Java, Spring
• TS/SCI Security clearance

Desired Qualifications:

• AWS, AWS CloudFormation
• Bash scripting
• SOAP UI (or equivalent)
• Rest
• Git, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence
• JSON
• XML, SXLT
• TS/SCI Security clearance with CI Poly