Systems Architect

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Job description

Overview:
FedWriters is building a team to support the Department of Defense's efforts to integrate multi-source data and analytics to develop a comprehensive biosurveillance capability, enhancing situational awareness and decision-making in response to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats. As Systems Architect you will analyze software development and data acquisition needs. FedWriters is expanding rapidly and has been recognized as a 2024 Top Workplace by Washington Post, offering excellent growth opportunities in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities:
Analyze and assess software development or data acquisition requirements and determine optimum, cost-effective solutions.

Support and work with a hybrid team of analyst, engineers, and developers to conduct research, and build and deploy complex, but easy-to-use analytical capabilities and/or devise a plan for development.

Works with data scientists, UX designers, cognitive scientists, developers, and testers to compose cohesive and sound designs that form the basis of scalable solutions.

Optimizes software designs and architectures to deliver desired performance targets and devises tooling and methodologies to profile execution and capture performance metrics.

Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree with 7-10 years experience, or a Masters Degree with 5 years of experience.

Active Secret level security clearance.

Significant experience in one or more scripting languages such as Python or R, Proficient in one or more big data programming languages, such as Python or Java

AI/ML model development, containerization, and productization experience

Knowledge Graph construction and reasoning experience, to include experience with property graph or RDF model frameworks.

Experience with Elasticsearch and related indexing technologies

Previous experience performing research in Data Analytics or Big Data

A significant share of your data analytics experience in direct support of military or intelligence community customers, demonstrating progressive technical development and mission-focused outcomes.

Significant experience dealing with open source, publicly available information (PAI) data sources and/or forensic media (i.e., DOMEX)

Previous experience developing predictive algorithms.

Experience supporting cyber security or network security operations.

Familiarity with social network analysis, supply chain analysis, forensic accounting, pattern of life, natural language processing, social media analysis, classification algorithms, and/or image processing

Experience blending analytical methodologies and leveraging existing COTS/GOTS/OS tools in unconventional manners.

FedWriters is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/vets.

Why Join Our Team:
At FedWriters, we place the highest importance on creating an exceptional employee experience. As part of our rapidly growing company, you'll have opportunities to achieve your career aspirations through internal promotions, professional development, and other recognition and rewards programs. Join our team and take advantage of the many benefits we offer, including:

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Long-term and Short-term Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

401(k) Plan

Vacation Pay

Paid Time Off

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