Job Description

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: NACI (T1)

Job Family: Software Development

GDIT, is seeking Python / JAVA Software Developer-Jr. to Mid Level to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Centers for Environmental Information to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).

This position is for a team member supporting the effort to enhance NOAA’s scientific data search, discovery, and access systems. The team member will work with a team of software developers in accordance with NCEI and NOAA processes and agile best practices. The team is responsible for all phases of development from requirements gathering and analysis to implementation using Agile methodologies.

Required Skills:

Requires minimum of Bachelors degree and four years of relevant experience or eight years relevant experience.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Skills at collaborating with other teams and outside partners at various locations

Experience with Agile development methodologies

Proficiency with Python and Java or similar languages

Experience working on Unix platforms.

Experience with standard application programming interfaces (APIs) and protocols such as REST

Familiarity with version control systems (preferably Git) in a team environment

Experience using Windows OS and Google G-Suite

SPONSORSHIP NOT AVAILABLE
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Preferred Skills

Experience serving as scrum master for an Agile team

Experience with Atlassian Jira and Confluence

Experience leading demos/presentations

Experience with XML and JSON

Familiarity with software utilities, data indexing, and workflow management tools such as Docker, Elasticsearch, and NiFi

Experience with Jenkins automation server

Proficiency with message-broker software (e.g. RabbitMQ) and its implementation

Experience with cloud computing, big data, distributed computing, and API mapping

Familiarity with cloud-optimized data file formats such as Zarr, Parquet, etc. as well as traditional scientific file formats such as GRIB, netCDF, and HDF5.

Experience working with metadata, specifically metadata standards such as ISO 19115.

#NCEIOpportunities

WHAT GDIT CAN OFFER YOU:

Full-flex work week
401K with company match
Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
Collaborative teams of highly motivated critical thinkers and innovators
Ability to make a real impact on the world around you

COVID-19 Vaccination: GDIT does not have a vaccination mandate applicable to all employees. To protect the health and safety of its employees and to comply with customer requirements, however, GDIT may require employees in certain positions to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements.

We are GDIT. The people supporting some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We deliver. Bringing the expertise needed to understand and advance critical missions. We transform. Shifting the ways clients invest in, integrate, and innovate technology solutions. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. We are there. On the ground, beside our clients, in the lab, and everywhere in between. Offering the technology transformations, strategy, and mission services needed to get the job done.

GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.

This job was posted on Thu May 19 2022 and expired on Tue May 24 2022.

Minimum $40K /yr

$83K /yr Average

Maximum $132K /yr

Tasks

Modify existing software to correct errors, allow it to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance.

Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.

Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design system and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.

Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.

Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.

Develop and direct software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation.

Supervise the work of programmers, technologists and technicians and other engineering and scientific personnel.

Determine system performance standards.

Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure specifications are met.

Consult with customers about software system design and maintenance.

Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan computer specifications and layouts, and peripheral equipment modifications.

Obtain and evaluate information on factors such as reporting formats required, costs, and security needs to determine hardware configuration.

Train users to use new or modified equipment.

Specify power supply requirements and configuration.

Recommend purchase of equipment to control dust, temperature, and humidity in area of system installation.

Skills

Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Operations Analysis - Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.

Programming - Writing computer programs for various purposes.

Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

Systems Analysis - Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.

Systems Evaluation - Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.

Knowledge

Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Engineering and Technology - Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.

Design - Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

Mathematics - Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.