Federal - Software Developer Specialist**
Alexandria, VA

Job Description

Organization: Accenture Federal Services

Location: Alexandria, VA

Accenture Federal Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture LLP, is a U.S. company with offices in Arlington, Virginia. Accenture's federal business has served every cabinet-level department and 30 of the largest federal organizations. Accenture Federal Services transforms bold ideas into breakthrough outcomes for clients at defense, intelligence, public safety, civilian and military health organizations.

We believe that great outcomes are everything. It's what drives us to turn bold ideas into breakthrough solutions. By combining digital technologies with what works across the world's leading businesses, we use agile approaches to help clients solve their toughest problems fast-the first time. So, you can deliver what matters most.

Count on us to help you embrace new ways of working, building for change and put customers at the core. A wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture, we bring over 30 years of experience serving the federal government, including every cabinet-level department. Our 7,200 dedicated colleagues and change makers work with our clients at the heart of the nation's priorities in defense, intel, public safety, health and civilian to help you make a difference for the people you employ, serve and protect.

The Modernized DevOpsSec & Analytics program is all about focusing on our client's mission. We're looking for talented people with experience in user design, agile, full-stack development, DevSevOps and AI who are creative, innovative, collaborative and passionate about working with other high performers. This is your opportunity to join a agile team working on cutting edge, cloud and open source-based technology and innovative AI and machine learning applications to support our client's IT system delivery leveraging tools in a Big Data Platform.

The Developer will have previous experience working with full-stack development and will need to be innovative and entrepreneurial to work within a ""start-up like"" environment. Must have a demonstrated track record of solving difficult problems. They will be responsible for supporting our data science group in creating high-impact machine learning solutions for our clients. In this role the developer will work on a small team and can switch assignments in a disciplined and fast-paced environment. They must be confident to tackle complex problems, and will be expected to design, develop, test, and deploy Java/JVM language technologies, including big data platforms, such as Hadoop. Successful candidates will be great communicators, familiar with Agile software development methodology and effective collaborators working with cross-functional teams. Note that this role is client facing.

Responsibilities:

* Experience with Amazon Web Services network
* Work in fast-paced team of cloud engineers to build a robust cloud infrastructure that ingests, processes, and stores an influx of large data into a big data platform
* Participate in design and development activities towards machine learning applications and data analytics
* Implement distributed systems and software applications
* Work independently and with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions to complex business and technical challenges