Application Developer

Job Description
BAE Systems is offering an exciting opportunity to support an important and dynamic Department of Justice customer as an Application Developer supporting a highly capable and diverse team driving technical innovation. You will design, develop, refactor, enhance, test and evaluate, and support software applications currently hosted on-premises to be hosted within the AWS GovCloud instance compliant with government policy directives (PD) and guides (PG) mandated to ensure legal and information security compliance. This shall include analysis of the existing system in collaboration with other team members and Government PM, and designing an appropriate solution. Candidates shall be skilled in multiple web application languages, reverse engineering, and have a background in building scalable, user intuitive, high-quality and high performing web applications. The application enhancements or modifications may include business and process changes to applications/systems as well as coordination with other integrated and non-customer software systems. The successful candidate will work alongside infrastructure, development, and managerial team members to troubleshoot and resolve issues. You will:

1. Support the Government's effort to obtain and maintain an authority-to- operate (ATO) and protect the security posture of the program systems and applications;
2. Possess exceptional interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills;
3. Provide Government personnel instruction, guidance, and documentation; and
4. Be willing to learn new technical disciplines and to become a resident expert within a team.
5. If requested, be able to attend CCB meetings with the Government to represent the Team

Required Education, Experience, & Skills
We are seeking your experience as a front end software developer in building multi-tier framework software applications using object-oriented programming languages, such as Java and Python. What you will need to have in experience in is developing SOAP and REST APIs in a client/server environment such as Java and Python. Also needed is experience in the following: Experience writing and evaluating regular expressions, experience developing, debugging and/or refactoring code for popular programming languages (i.e., Java, Python, etc.), experience with scripting command line tools (e.g., Vim, Bash, PowerShell, etc.) to automate command tasks, Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM, knowledge of web-related technologies HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS, and experience with any major database (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server). Experience in developing in cloud native applications (AWS preferred) would be beneficial.
This position will focus more on Web development initially then as the migration is more underway the role will focus more on application development. We are migrating everything from Java 8 to .net version 7 with a REACT front end.
It's preferred you have one (1) or more years of experience with cloud application development that may include migrating on-premises applications, but this experience is not required. You'll have opportunity to be involved in this once on board.
Required Experience, Skill, and Education:
Minimum Education: Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Degree in Computer Science, Software Development, Information Systems or related field of study, or in lieu of education, three (3) additional years of relevant experience.
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
Desired Qualifications:
One (1) or more years of experience with application development leveraging a SQL and/or PostgreSQL database as data storage.
One (1) or more years of experience with cloud (AWS preferred) application development and management.
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $89650 - $152460
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
About BAE Systems Intelligence & Security
BAE Systems Intelligence & Security, based in McLean, Virginia, designs and delivers advanced defense, intelligence, and security solutions that support the important missions of our customers. Our pride and dedication shows in everything we do-from intelligence analysis, cyber operations and IT expertise to systems development, systems integration, and operations and maintenance services. Knowing that our work enables the U.S. military and government to recognize, manage and defeat threats inspires us to push ourselves and our technologies to new levels. That's BAE Systems. That's Inspired Work. Equal Opportunity Employer/Females/Minorities/Veterans/Disabled/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Gender Expression. To see Inspired Work in action, visit www.baesystems.com and follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/baesystemsintel.