All of Asymmetrik's positions are in the Baltimore-Washington area and require U.S. citizenship and a willingness to be processed for a Top Secret clearance with polygraph. The work is challenging, but the salary and benefits are excellent. Relocation assistance is available.
This overall effort provides software development support enabling rapid prototyping of metadata extraction software, implementation of analysis algorithms to evaluate, correlate, and display information, and direct systems support for urgent analytic needs.
Position Description/Responsibilities:
Participate in architecture and software development activities that may include:
Develop a working understanding of the customer's analytic business needs in order to engineer software-based solutions
Translate requirements into specifications
Specify and develop technical interfaces
Design, develop, and deliver software-based prototypes
Participate in prototype testing at unit, component, and system levels
Provide systems and software engineering support
Develop and maintain system configuration documentation
Identify web server based performance bottlenecks for application and web services
Develop and maintain custom web pages, as required
Specific Requirements:
Must have a minimum of 3 years experience in software development and experience in computer science, electrical engineering, or computer engineering
Must have Java development experience
Ability to support operational analytical needs defined by a series of short duration tasks directed by intelligence analysts and government project leads
Experience with multiple of the following areas is highly desirable:
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
Linux/UNIX/Solaris
HTML, Web Application Development in PMP or JSP
SQL, JDBC
BEA WebLogic Applications Server
XML, XSL, XQuery
J2EE framework (including some or all of Java Patterns, Java Security, JMS, JNDI)
Java XML Parsing (DOM, XAX, SOAP)
Java Server Faces or Struts
Java-based web services
Perl or Python
Agile development processes, such as XP, SCRUM, RUP, etc. (the religion matters much more than the denomination)
