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Lead Software Engineer

Country Intelligence Group

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Top Secret/SCI
Full Scope Polygraph
IT - Software
Herndon, VA (On-Site/Office)

Lead Software Engineer – Moon 2111



Country Intelligence Group is seeking a Full-Time Software Engineer to support our client in the
design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise-wide collaboration network architecture,
advanced data systems, and mission-driven software solutions. The selected candidate will play a
critical role in leading the integration of complex data environments, graph-based architectures, and
cloud-native platforms while ensuring compliance with federal security and governance policies. This
role involves close collaboration with stakeholder communities, engineering teams, and mission
partners to deliver holistic, scalable technical solutions aligned with Sponsor objectives. The ideal
candidate will possess deep technical experience in software engineering, data integration, and
systems architecture, with an emphasis on performance optimization, maintainability, and security.



Tasks Performed:

• Design, review, and implementation of collaboration network architecture,
including graphing tool recommendations, data flow, data integration tools, user
interfaces.

• Develop operation and maintenance documentation to include user support,
developer support, tool integration, and data requirements/integration standard
operating procedures.

• Design, development, and implementation of software systems/services solutions
based on requirements analysis.

• Perform operational feasibility evaluations and recommend improvements.

• Develop and maintain system and solution code, architecture, and security
documentation.

• Assist with software licensing and purchase efforts.

• Serves as a POC to operate as the focal point for integrating Sponsor community
best practices already in use for data and solution approach, developing new recommendations as directed, defining detailed engineering requirements for implementing the new analytics, databases, and models.

• Engage with communities of practice, stakeholders, and engineering teams to
apply technical expertise on the mission data to develop holistic scalable
solutions.

• Lead the implementation of technical standards for the data graphing tool and
associated integrations with systems to ensure information security requirements
are met in an efficiently scalable manner that enables measurement and
monitoring.



Education, Experience
and Qualifications:

• Experience with designing cloud-native architectures using cloud services such as
AWS, Google, IBM, and Oracle.

• Experience designing and operating big data systems.

• Experience building and optimizing performance of large-scale graph databases
(tens of billions of edges) using DynamoDB or new enhanced capabilities.

• Experience developing and operating graph traversal capabilities using data
graphing tool traversal capabilities built upon Apache Gremlin or new enhanced
capabilities.

• Experience developing and operating NoSQL solutions to complex big data
applications.

• Experience in data modeling for performance, partition sharding, record/event
aggregation workflows, stream processing, and metrics gathering.

• Experience designing and operating large-scale serverless geospatial indexes built
with GeoMESA.

• Experience with partition and sort key design and implementation to ensure
consistent performance.

• Experience with aggregation operations to de-duplicate records on continuous
data feeds.

• Subject matter expertise experience with relational databases to noSQL.

• Experience building and operating high performance data processing pipelines
using Lambda, Step Functions and PySpark.

• Experience building high quality User Interface/User experiences with the React
framework and webGL.

• Experience designing and operating large scale graph databases using Apache
Cassandra.

• Experience performing in-depth technical analysis of large-scale graph databases
to develop implementation strategies for search optimizations.

• Experience developing technical capabilities for processing, persistence and
search of datasets that are collected or maintained using standards common in
the community.

• Experience facilitating engineering discussions across teams representing multiple
stakeholders to develop and execute implementation strategies that meet mission
needs.

• Experience developing Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) pipelines for large
scale applications.

• Experience maintaining configuration of software using configuration
management resources such as GitHub.

• Experience designing, building and operating big data systems, such as
persistence, partitioning, indexing, at scale of trillions of records/events.

• Experience with Niagara Files (NiFi) applications or new enhanced capabilities.

• Experience developing and operating Kubernetes infrastructure.

• Experience supporting engineering efforts that will contribute to delivery of
capabilities such as datasets and functionality such as communications,
geospatial workflows.

• Experience implementing DevSecOps and agile development in production
environments.

• Experience with agile software development and testing.

• Experience with federal security, regulatory and compliance requirements and
security accreditation package development.

• Experience with data security and governance using centralized security controls
like LDAP, encrypting the data, and auditing access to the data.

• Experience with specialized technologies that are optimized for the particular use
of the data, such as relational databases, a NoSQL database (Cassandra), or
object storage.

• Experience with Apache, TINKERPOP, GREMLIN and/or JANUSGRAPH to design,
develop, implement and maintain system.

• Knowledge of Graph Database to design, develop, implement and maintain
system.

• Experience with C or C++ to write interfaces.

• Experience using centralized security controls like LDAP, encrypting data, and
auditing access to data.

• Experience with databases including Postgres, MariaDB, ELK, Minio, AWS S3,
Neo4j, MongoDB, noSQL.

• Experience with Python (pypi libraries).

• Experience with operating systems including Centos7 and RockyLinux8.

• Experience with orchestration technologies including Kubernetes, Docker, Docker
Compose, Docker-Swarm.

• Experience with development tools including vscode, gitlab, jupyterhub/notebooks, MATLAB.

• Experience in large collaboration and development environments.

• Experience with data types including unstructured, structured, or semi-structured
data such as CSV, JSON, JSONL, AVRO, Protocol Buffers, Parquet, etc.

• Experience with designing cloud-native architectures using cloud services.
(Preferred)

• Experience designing and operating big data systems within policy and regulatory
environment. (Preferred)

• Experience developing and operating graph traversal capabilities using the data
graphing tool traversal capabilities built upon Apache Gremlin. (Preferred)

• Experience building and operating high performance data processing pipelines
using Lambda, Step Functions and PySpark on the infrastructure with EMR.
(Preferred)

• Experience working with enterprise services used for Data Management, including
the enterprise catalog service (and associated APIs), and Policy Decision Points
(PDPs). (Preferred)

• Experience developing Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) pipelines for large
scale application in the environment. (Preferred)

• Experience and understanding of IT Service Management and common SLA
measurements. (Preferred)

• Experience presenting solutions, requirements, and presentations to diverse
audiences. (Preferred)

• Experience working with container orchestration technologies such as AWS ECS,
AWS Fargate, and Kubernetes or other enhanced capabilities available.
(Preferred)

• Experience in managing large operational cloud environments spanning multiple
tenants using Multi-Account management, AWS Well Architected Best Practices,
and AWS Organization Units/Service Control Policies (OU/SCP). (Preferred)

• Experience with micro-services such as building decoupled systems, utilizing
RESTful endpoints and lightweight systems. (Preferred)

• Experience in total systems perspectives, including a technical understanding of
systems and applications relationships, dependencies, and requirements of
hardware and software components. (Preferred)

• Experience consulting with customers to determine present and future user
needs. (Preferred)

• Experience providing frequent contact with customers, traceability within program
documents, and the overall computing environment and architecture. (Preferred)

• Certifications including AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Machine Learning
Certification(s), Agile certification, Azure, Security+, GSEC, CCNA. (Preferred)



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Requirements:

• Active Top Secret/SCI w/Full Scope Polygraph.

• U.S. Citizenship and must pass a successful background check.

• Location: Herndon, VA.
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Country Intelligence Group, LTD was established in 2012 by a small group of research and analysis professionals located in Dayton, Ohio who had a unique blend of data analytics, workforce development, and Department of Defense expertise. We are a Management Consulting and Research Services firm that provides services to Government and commercial clients. Our primary business activity occurs with the Federal Government, and specifically with the Department of Defense. Our core capabilities include data collection, data analysis, research, survey execution, and consulting related to Department of Defense Workforce Development initiatives, foreign military sales, security cooperation, and training operations. We also have a robust capability to execute large scale surveys and public opinion polls to inform public policy and to conduct market research.

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