Sr. Automation Architect

Position ID SO-2408

Position Title Sr. Automation Architect

Key Required Skills: Strong knowledge of automation testing, Java, Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin, Selenium, REST API.

Position Description

• ​Architect, design, code, and implement next-generation technical solutions using software engineering best practices in the latest technologies.
• Provide technical support and guidance for the development and maintenance of automation artifacts including the automation framework, grid, and automation scripts.
• Mentor and train team members on automation and provide them information necessary to adopt quickly to the project requirements.
• Work closely with the integration team to facilitate automation runs in the Integration environment.
• Provide expertise in one or more of the following areas: automation test framework development, development of automation tests using core Java, Selenium, Cucumber, and Gherkin, execution of automation test suites and documentation of defects.
• All other duties as assigned or directed.
  

Detailed Skills Requirements

FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of experience in a Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related field.  Additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• In-depth knowledge of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) approaches to automation testing.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.

*** Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site in Woodlawn, MD 5 days a week.

​FACTORS TO HELP YOU SHINE (Required Skills)
These skills will help you succeed in this position:

• Strong experience developing Selenium automation frameworks using Junit/TestNG and developing Maven targets to execute automation suites.
• Experience in setting up and maintaining Selenium Grid to execute tests in parallel and enable cross platform testing.
• Experience developing test scripts to implement Features, Test Scenarios and Step-Definitions in a customized test automation framework.
• Experience in configuring and execution of automated regression suites using Jenkins CI/CD pipeline and/or Selenium Grid.
• Experience developing automation test scripts to test Web Services using customized automation frameworks and tools such as Parasoft, Rest Assured and SOAP UI
• Knowledge of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, DB2, Oracle) and experience with SQL for querying data to verify test results.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Scrum and/or Kanban Agile development processes, terminology and ceremonies (e.g., scrums, backlog grooming, retrospectives, demonstrations).
• Experience acting as a Scrum Master on an Agile software development projects 

HOW TO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD (Desired Skills)
Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:

• Experience with source code versioning and Pull Requests with Git and Stash.
• Experience with environments utilizing Cloud/Virtualization technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Docker.
• In-depth knowledge of Social Security Administration (SSA) modern development environment including Git/Stash version control, Agility (previously VersionOne), Confluence, SonarQube, and Checkmarx.
• Strong communication and collaborative skills in providing technical direction and hands-on software development to include design, development, and testing.
  

Education

• ​Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement. 

Position ID SO-2407

Position Title Kafka Cloud Architect

Key Required Skills Confluent Kafka, Apache Flink, Kafka Connect, Python, Java and SpringBoot.

Position Description

• ​Lead and organize a team of Kafka administrators and developers, assign tasks, and facilitate weekly Kafka Technical Review meetings with the team.
• Work alongside customer to determine expanded use of Kafka within the Agency.
• Strategize within Leidos to set up opportunities to explore new technologies to use with Kafka.
• Architect, design, code, and implement next-generation data streaming and event-based architecture / platform on Confluent Kafka.
• Define strategy for streaming data to data warehouse, and integrating event-based architect with microservice based applications.
• Establish Kafka best practices and standards for implementing the Kafka platform based on identified use cases and required integration patterns.
• Mentor existing team members by imparting expert knowledge to build a high-performing team in our event-driven architecture. Assist developers in choosing correct patterns, event modelling and ensuring data integrity.
• Provide software expertise in one or more of these areas: application integration, enterprise services, service-oriented architectures (SOA), security, business process management/business rules processing, data ingestion/data modeling.
• Triage, investigate, advise in a hands-on capacity to resolve platform issues regardless of component.
• Brief management, customer, team, or vendors using written or oral skills at appropriate technical level for audience. Share up-to-date insights on the latest Kafka-based solutions, formulate creative approaches to address business challenges, present and host workshops with senior leaders and translate technical jargons into layman's language and vice-versa.
• All other duties as assigned or directed.
  

Detailed Skills Requirements

FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field with 12 years of relevant experience OR Master degree with 10 years of relevant experience.  Additional years of experience may be substituted/accepted in lieu of degree.
• 12+ years of experience with modern software development including systems/application analysis and design.
• 7+ years of combined experience with Kafka (Confluent Kafka and/or Apache Kafka).
• 2+ years of combined experience with designing, architecting, and deploying to AWS cloud platform.
• 1+ years of leading a technical team.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance. 

*** Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site in Woodlawn, MD 5 days a week.

​FACTORS TO HELP YOU SHINE (Required Skills)
These skills will help you succeed in this position:

• Expert experience with Confluent Kafka with hands-on production experience, capacity planning, installation, administration / platform management, and a deep understanding of the Kafka architecture and internals.
• Expert in Kafka cluster and application security.
• Strong knowledge of Event Driven Architecture (EDA)
• Expert Experience in data pipeline, data replication and/or performance optimization.
• Kafka installation & partitioning on OpenShift or Kubernetes, topic management, HA & SLA architecture.
• Strong knowledge and application of microservice design principles and best practices: distributed systems, bounded contexts, service-to-service integration patterns, resiliency, security, networking, and/or load balancing in large mission critical infrastructure.
• Expert experience with Kafka Connect, KStreams, and KSQL, with the ability to know how to use effectively for different use cases.
• Hands-on experience with scaling Kafka infrastructure including Broker, Connect, ZooKeeper, Schema Registry, and/or Control Center.
• Hands-on experience in designing, writing, and operationalizing new Kafka Connectors.
• Solid experience with data serialization using Avro and JSON and data compression techniques.
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, EKS, Flink, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and/or S3.
• Basic knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, DB2, or Oracle), SQL, and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate, and/or Spring JPA). 

HOW TO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD (Desired Skills)
Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:

• Disaster recovery strategy
• Domain Driven Design (DDD)
• AWS cloud certifications.
• Delivery (CI/CD) best practices and use of DevOps to accelerate quality releases to Production.
• PaaS using Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes and Docker containers.
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, CloudFormation / Terraform).
• Solid experience with Spring Framework (Boot, Batch, Cloud, Security, and Data).
• Solid knowledge with Java EE, Java generics, and concurrent programming.
• Solid experience with automated unit testing, TDD, BDD, and associated technologies (Junit, Mockito, Cucumber, Selenium, and Karma/Jasmine).
• Working knowledge of open-source visualization platform Grafana and open-source monitoring system Prometheus and uses with Kafka​

Education

• ​Bachelor's Degree in with 12+ years of experience 
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance. 

Position ID SO-2382

Position Title AWS Connect Developer and Tester

Key Required Skills Solid AWS Cloud and AWS Connect Developer experience

Position Description

• ​Design, develop and implement AWS Connect processes to include new or modifications to applications, forms, workflow, policies, actions, access control, interfaces, and any other configurations required to support client processes
• Provide recommendations for enhancing existing operations and provide recommendations for new updates or modifications
• Support and enhance existing processes based on new requirements or upgrades
• Facilitate requirements gathering, review and document requirements
• Design and develop solutions within the ServiceNow environment
  

Detailed Skills Requirements

Foundation for Success (Basic Qualifications):
This experience is the foundation a candidate needs to be successful in this position:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field
• 7 years of experience working with large enterprise framework
• 7 years of hands-on experience working with AWS Cloud platform
• 3 years of hands-on experience working with Amazon Connect 
• 3 years of experience using Node.js, Python or Java for development
• 3 years of experience in designing call routing & messaging
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Factors to Help You Shine (Required Skills):
These skills will help you succeed in this position:

• Solid AWS Cloud and AWS Connect Developer experience
• Extensive experience and knowledge with IVR, Automatic Call Distribution (ACD), Skill-Based Routing, Live Chat
• Experience with process flow documentation creation.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

How to Stand Out from the Crowd (Desired Skills)
Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:

• Adept at working independently, but also in a team environment
• Demonstrated experience delivering technology solutions in a fast-paced, deadline driven enterprise environment
• Excellent understanding of change management, testing requirements, techniques, and tools to ensure high availability of systems
• Prior Federal government experience
• Self-starter, highly motivated individual who adapts to a dynamic work environment
• Strong attention to detail with an ability to operate effectively across multiple priorities
  

Education

• ​Bachelors degree with 12 years of experience
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust​

Position ID SO-2302

Position Title ServiceNow Developer

Key Required Skills Experience analyzing the customer requirements and develop a solution architecture that addresses the technical, management, maximizes automation, and provides operational reporting aspects of the proposal

.Position Description

• ​Provide development support for ServiceNow projects and enhancements.
• Develop process workflows and automation strategies.
• Collaborate with the team in architecture design development and reviews.
• Lead the development of solution artifacts, such as road maps, optimization of operations, architecture and/or block diagrams with a view outside of User Story requirements.
• Based on your experiences and interests, we may ask you as a technology professional to support growth-related activities, including prototypes, and oral presentations. Team members are also expected to uphold and maintain appropriate certifications for their practice expertise.
  

Detailed Skills Requirements

FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's and 3 years of experience, Master's and 1 year of experience or 7+ in lieu of a degree
• 5+ years of experience as ServiceNow developer
• 3+ years of experience with technical discussions and reviews.
• Experience across numerous parts of the ServiceNow platform and experience with commonly integrated third-party technologies
• Excellent understanding of system architecture, design principles, and impacts
• Experience supporting IT related data integrity (CMDB, HAM, SAM etc.)
• Excellent technical leadership skills and initiative to take on additional responsibilities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills to deliver technical solutions simply and succinctly
• Experience with the US Federal Government
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement. 
  

*** Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site in Woodlawn, MD 5 days a week.

FACTORS TO HELP YOU SHINE (Required Skills)
These skills will help you succeed in this position:

• 3+ years of experience with developing ServiceNow solutions across various platform applications, such as ITSM, ITOM (HAM and SAM), ITBM, CSM, SecOps, GRC, HR
• 3+ years of Industry experience (e.g. Financial Services, Healthcare, High Tech, Manufacturing, Retail, etc.)
• 2+ years of technical leadership experience driving change/solutions.
  

HOW TO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD (Desired Skills)
Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:

• Required ServiceNow required certification:
  • Certified System Administrator (baseline)​
  • ​Certified Application Developer (baseline)
• Additional ServiceNow CIS certification with preference for the following:
  • CIS – Customer Service Management
  • CIS – IT Service Management
  • CIS – Discovery
  • CIS – Service Mapping
  • CIS – Strategic Portfolio Management
  • CIS – Application Portfolio Management
  • CIS – Software Asset Management
  • CIS – Hardware Asset Management
  • ​​Experience with Web development, including technologies such as X-HTML, CSS3, SQL, XML, Angular and JavaScript, PHP, .NET, or Java
• Experience with implementing Java scripting to support automation across the various modules in ServiceNow
• Experience with REST and SOAP web service protocols
• Experience with Business Rules, Workflow, Identification Rules, Workspaces and External Portals
• Knowledge of SAML, Active Directory, or LDAP
• Specialized ServiceNow Developer Certifications, including ITSM, HAM, SAM, ITBM, CSM, SecOps, GRC, TRM/APM or HR
• Project Management or Agile certification
• ITILv4 Foundations Certification
• Ability to work in a high growth, fast paced environment
  

Education

• ​Bachelor's and 3 years of experience, Master's and 1 year of experience or 7+ in lieu of a degree
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.