Highlight is seeking a software development consultant to join our SBA team supporting disaster management and recovery for small businesses affected by natural disasters. This developer will be a key part of a team providing insights to our federal customer from a range of internal and external data sources to reduce the burdens on the American people following disasters.
Responsibilities
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Serves as subject matter expert on software and application development issues, to include supporting a team of other subject matter experts with an clarification of requirements and an understanding of capabilities and constraints.
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Applies practical experience and theoretical knowledge and expertise to solution development.
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Ensures the accomplishment of project activities and objectives.
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Provides a broad range of consulting services, including program planning, strategy development, program execution, evaluation, and policy development.
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Utilizes experience and expertise to contribute to the development of deliverables.
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Leads or assists in discussions and meetings with the client or project team.
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Performs a variety of tasks that require both practical and experience and theoretical, state-of-the-art, technical knowledge in specialty areas.
Qualifications
- Master's degree
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Must be eligible for public trust
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Ability to support the technical aspects of data analysis, tool development, and system integration on a number of hosted and desktop environments.
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Knowledge of cloud technology to include AWS (Amazon Web Services) and experience supporting DevSecOps programs.
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Familiarity with Jira or similar project management tools.
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Previous experience having worked on programs for the federal or state and local government supporting disaster management and recovery, such as FEMA.
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Deep knowledge of Python and related libraries supporting data analytics, and all or some of the following: R, SAS, SQL.
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Experience with coding integration with internal and external databases and websites through APIs and other means.
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Excellent communication and documenting habits
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One or both of the following:
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Knowledge of ESRI products and services to include ArcGIS, datasets and maps, scripting and notebooks and other development resources.
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Knowledge of data science and business intelligence applications like Tableau, Power BI and ArcGIS Online applications.
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