Full Stack Engineer Lead with Security Clearance

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Job description

Job#: Job Description: Duties and Responsibilities:
Participate and own end - to - end iterative design, development, and testing, and deployment of capabilities within the Navy Reserve portfolio of business systems.
Work with analysts, stakeholders, and other engineers to understand, define, and improve requirements.
Maintain a pulse on development roadmaps and emerging technologies to advance those employed by the team
Promotes team growth through a variety of mechanisms, including mentoring, code reviews, educational and inspirational articles, commentary, and talks.
Advise leadership and team on complexity reduction in projects, products, services, systems, and process. Recognize and demonstrate the ability to make decisions based on risk and return on-investment.
Produce, test and perform on going evaluation of deployable ML models that can operate in near real time and provide enhanced and automated outputs to the Navy Reserve community.
Conduct exploratory data analysis on large, raw and highly dimensional pre-existing datasets, apply data visualization, normalization and data mining methods to extract usable data from possibly noisy datasets.
Become a resident expert in all technologies within the full stack, including but not limited to .NET, JavaScript, React, and subordinate technologies/frameworks, with a particular focus on AI/ML capabilities/tools/techniques.
Promote a culture founded on agile development with high development standards
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related disciplines
5 years of relevant experience performing software development
SECRET level security clearance
CompTIA Security+ certification (or equivalent), or ability to achieve within 6months
Proven ability to perform generative AI tasks (script generation, generative models)
Familiarity with unlabeled datasets and applicable machine learning processes (self - supervised learning, semi-supervised and meta-learning)
Experience with nondeep learning techniques in a supervised setting (support vector machines, decision trees, KNN, and random forests).Experience with non-deep learning techniques in an unsupervised setting (K-means, DBSCAN, Hierarchical clustering, T-SNE).
Experience developing solutions leveraging large language models (LLMs) and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows
Proven ability to multitask and prioritize accordingly, contributing to multiple assigned-projects
Ability to adapt quickly to an existing, complex environment
Good understanding of business requirements and IT strategies
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Practical knowledge of software design patterns
Experience with bug tracking systems (GitLab, GitHub, Jira, Azure DevOps)
Experience with version control systems (Git preferred)
Azure, AWS, and/or SaaS based development experience supporting AI/ML workloadsDesired Qualifications:
Experience in and of the following: .NET (C#), ASP.NET, JavaScript, Node, React, Python, MS SQL Server
Experience developing in an Agile environment, leveraging Scrum and/or Kanban
Experience development business systems for the Department of Defense, specifically the US Navy
Experience building responsive web applications suitable for use on Mobile devices
Experience implementing and configuring CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Sonar Qube, Nexus Repository Manager, Nexus IQ)
Experience managing software deployed to a production environment (IIS, MS SQL Server)
Knowledge of AI/ML algorithms, or an ability to learn and understand existing implementations
Knowledge of Generative AI and common development patterns, tools, and techniques, including Vector Stores, Large Language Models, and Prompt Engineering
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