Data Scientist/App Developer

Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. We leverage more than 17 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government, with established and growing capabilities across Intelligence, Analytics, Engineering, Mission Support, and Communications disciplines. Founded in 2008, our mission is to transform the way our customers approach constantly changing and complex problem sets by bringing to bear the latest in technology and the highest caliber of talent.

Headquartered in Washington, DC's historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, Barbaricum also has a corporate presence in Tampa, FL, Bedford, IN, and Dayton, OH, with team members across the United States and around the world. As a leader in our space, we partner with firms in the private sector, academic institutions, and industry associations with a goal of continually building our expertise and capabilities for the benefit of our employees and the customers we support. Through all of this, we have built a vibrant corporate culture diverse in expertise and perspectives with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Our teams are at the frontier of the Nation's most complex and rewarding challenges. Join our team.

Barbaricum is seeking a data professional experienced in data science and full-stack tool development, to be part of a larger team in support of US Strategic Command in Omaha, Nebraska.  This journeyman position supports the customer on-site, with a number of user requirement driven development projects aimed to make sense of the large amounts of data relevant to the STRATCOM mission.  The ideal candidate will have a mixture of proficiency in full stack application development, operating in cloud based infrastructure, and using emerging data science and Artificial Intelligence tools, to support the customer.

Responsibilities:

•  Designs and develops software requirements for multiple Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning based support capabilities including the software architectures, APIs, frameworks, and libraries.
•  Develops front-end and back-end software components, and tooling that can be prototyped and iterated into mature products.  
•  Maintains the existing code base of in-production applications, performing bug fixes, updates of code and component libraries to meet security and performance needs as required, and capability enhancements as planned in the sprint schedule.
•  Works closely with clients and requirements owners to build out product lines. 
•  Works within tool development team to compose cohesive and sound software designs that form the basis of scalable solutions. 
•  Documents requirements and specifications and reviews documentation provided by other teams and vendors. 
•  Optimizes software designs and architectures to deliver desired performance targets and devises tooling and methodologies to profile execution and capture performance metrics. 
•  Stays informed on latest AI/ML system and software architectures and trends from design patterns to DevSecOps and systems architecture patterns. 

Qualifications:

•  Must have an active DoD Top Secret clearance and must be able to achieve a TS/SCI clearance with scope.
•  Bachelor’s degree plus 3-5 years experience, or a Masters Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Sofware Development (or related field.)
•  Programming experience with Python, JavaScript, and at least one more programming language. 
•  Experience with front end frameworks like React or Vue. Experience with backend runtimes and frameworks like Node.js, Spring, Spring Boot, Django, Flask, etc.
•  Experience with Agile software development methodologies, tools, and providing leadership to other developers operating within an Agile framework. 
•  Familiarity with DevSecOps experience including the use of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Tooling (Git runners, code scanning tools).
•  Experience operating in cloud based development and production environments (prefer AWS)
•  Familiarity with Object Relational Modeling persistence frameworks (e.g. SQLAlchemy), and with PostgreSQL.
•  Strong communications skills to collaborate with team and customers
•  Ability to synthesize requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and facilitate engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines.

EEO Commitment

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.