Java Software Engineer

Java Software Engineer

Hybrid, 2 days on-site required in Herndon, VA

Clearance Required: TS/SCI + Polygraph.

People Centered. Data Driven

Elder Research Inc. is a Data Science consulting firm specialized in providing analytic solutions to clients in Commercial and Government industries. Providing analytic solutions to hundreds of companies across numerous industries, our team enjoys a great variety in the type of work they do and exposure to a wide range of techniques and tools.

We are trusted advisors to our clients, building lasting relationships and partnering as preferred analytics providers. We use a variety of programming languages and tools to create analytic solutions, often fitting within our clients’ environment and needs.

Join our team and find great opportunities to hone your analytic skills, work on complex problems with amazing teammates, and gain valuable analytics consulting experience.

Summary of Position:

We’re looking for Software Engineers with knowledge of various data access patterns and underlying technology implementations. You should be knowledgeable on how to properly secure the data from unauthorized access at multiple data access points (e.g. search discovery rules, repository read rules, S3 bucket policies, etc). You should also know how to keep distributed data stores in-sync and how to detect state drift. Finally, you should have excellent knowledge of the AWS ecosystem to support both the existing infrastructure (built on EC2 with CloudFormation) and to help us build the next-generation data hub.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience operating Data Lakes or Data Hubs with knowledge on how to optimize storage technology for client access patterns, and how to propagate CRUD operations throughout a distributed stack (including versioning nuances).
• Familiarity with Apache NiFi development and operations
• Familiarity in the AWS ecosystem of services (e.g. S3, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Lake Formation, EMR, ECS, RDS, Kinesis, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch)
• Familiarity with Reactive Programming (e.g. Project Reactor, RxJava)
• Experience with Kubernetes and/or Docker container environment
• Ability to identify external data specifications for common data representations
• Experience building monitoring and alerting mechanisms for data pipelines
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Ansible)
• Contributor to an open source community
• Presentation Skills: Utilize your talents in delivering compelling presentations to effectively convey project progress and results to diverse audiences.

Job Specifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field
• 4+ years of Java experience
• 4+ years of Spring Boot (Spring Framework) experience
• Experience with testing frameworks and tools (e.g. JUnit, AssertJ, Mockito, Spring Runner)
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python, Bash)
• Experience with AWS OpenSearch/ElasticSearch
• Experience working within a Linux environment
• Experience working with a message-driven architecture (e.g. SNS/SQS, Kafka, Kinesis, JMS, etc.)
• Experience with Git for source control
• Ability to determine the right tool or technology for the task at hand
• Works well in a team environment
• Strong communication skills

About Elder Research, Inc

Elder Research is a fast growing consulting firm specializing in predictive analytics. Being in the data mining business over 20 years, we pride ourselves in our ability to find creative, cutting edge solutions to real-world problems. We work hard to provide the best value to our clients and allow each person to contribute their ideas and put their skills to use immediately.

Our team members are passionate, curious, life-long learners. We value humility, servant-leadership, teamwork, and integrity. We seek to serve our clients and our teammates to the best of our abilities. In keeping with our entrepreneurial spirit, we want candidates who are self-motivated with an innate curiosity and strong team work.

Elder Research believes in continuous learning; each week the entire company attends a “Tech Talk” followed by an office lunch. Elder Research provides a supportive work environment with established parental, bereavement, and PTO policies. By prioritizing a healthy work-life balance - with reasonable hours, solid pay, low travel, and extremely flexible time off - Elder Research enables and encourages its employees to serve others.

Elder Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Elder Research is a Government contractor and our positions require US Citizenship.