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Job Description:
Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Software Engineer, Analytic Services Lead to join our team!
In this role you will own the design, delivery, performance, and operational evolution of the analytics services domain for a large-scale, globally distributed mission platform.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Owning the analytics services portfolio, including search, aggregations, event rollups, telemetry analytics, and user-facing visualization services
- Leading the design and delivery of Java-based analytics microservices and supporting ingestion, indexing, and reporting workflows
- Defining indexing, sharding, retention, and query strategies across operational telemetry and business-facing analytics workloads
- Tuning and optimizing queries and service interactions to meet strict performance and latency requirements in real-time mission workflows
- Ensuring analytics microservices remain scalable, observable, and reliable across globally distributed deployments
What Required Skills You’ll Bring:
- TS/SCI minimum clearance required.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Systems (or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree)
- 15+ years of software, data platform, search, or analytics engineering experience, including 4+ years owning a major technical service domain
- Strong hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana/Grafana, and Java-based microservices
- Proven ownership of analytics/search architecture across indexing, query design, aggregation patterns, and UI visualization
- Strong troubleshooting skills across ingestion, indexing, query performance, UI layers, and distributed systems
What Desired Skills You’ll Bring:
- Experience with Vue.js 3 or similar frameworks for analytics dashboards
- Experience building analytics or observability solutions in distributed microservices environments
- Experience with telemetry pipelines, distributed tracing, or APM-driven analysis
- Experience optimizing Elasticsearch clusters for mixed workloads (user analytics + operational telemetry)
- Experience integrating event pipelines or stream processors into analytics workflows
Security Clearance Requirement:
An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.Salary Range: $148,300.00 - $266,900.00We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/.
Skills Required
- Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or another technical discipline, or four additional years of experience in lieu of degree
- 15+ years of software, data platform, search, or analytics engineering experience
- 4+ years owning a major technical service domain
- Strong hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana or Grafana, and Java-based microservices
- Experience owning analytics or search architecture across indexing, query design, aggregation patterns, and UI visualization
- Strong troubleshooting skills across ingestion, indexing, query performance, UI layers, and distributed systems
- Experience with Vue.js 3 or similar frameworks for analytics dashboards
- Experience building analytics or observability solutions in distributed microservices environments
- Experience with telemetry pipelines, distributed tracing, or APM-driven analysis
- Experience optimizing Elasticsearch clusters for mixed user analytics and operational telemetry workloads
- Experience integrating event pipelines or stream processors into analytics workflows
Parsons Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Parsons Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Parsons Corporation.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are framed as a major value driver, with an ESOP alongside a 401(k) match and additional stock-purchase options contributing meaningfully to total rewards. This structure is positioned as especially attractive for employees who value long-term wealth-building over immediate cash.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and choice-rich, with multiple plan types (PPO, HDHP, and some HMO networks) plus dental, vision, EAP, and wellness resources. The availability of different plan designs and national-carrier coverage supports varied employee needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as competitive, including PTO, holidays, flexible schedules such as a 9/80 option for eligible roles, and floating holidays in the U.S. Paid parental leave of 160 hours is also highlighted as a meaningful component of the overall package.
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What We Do
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider with a focus on making the world safer, smarter, healthier, more sustainable, and more connected. Founded in 1944, Parsons primarily serves the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. Uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services, the corporation delivers state-of-the-art solutions to federal, regional, and local government agencies as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. Parsons has a reputation for inclusion and diversity and has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for 10 consecutive years. Parsons facilitates a culture of innovation by encouraging collaboration among its employees and providing opportunities for career growth. With offices around the globe, people of varied talents and backgrounds, and a wide range of exciting projects, the possibilities at Parsons are endless. For more about Parsons, visit www.parsons.com. Mission: Delivering innovative infrastructure, defense, and security solutions to enable a more sustainable, safer, smarter, and more connected world.
