Application Developer - Databricks - FWS

Position:  Application Developer - Databricks

Location:  On-site at US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) offices, in Falls Church, Virginia, Ft. Collins, Colorado

Clearance:  Clearable (Public Trust), US Citizen

Objective:

The primary objective of this engagement is to ensure the continued enhancement, as well as maintenance and operational support of ECOSphere, which includes its seamless integration with other systems/applications, by leveraging the expertise of highly qualified technical professionals. The focus is to ensure ECOSphere remains a secure, scalable, and efficient system that serves both internal USFWS users and the public.

Tasks:

Application Development Support and Maintenance

• Develop and Enhance Applications: Design, develop, and implement new features, modules, and tools and/or integrations with in-house applications (ETK workflows, including species and recovery workflows and more, IPaC, Dkey Editor, EPM, SAMS, HabITS, etc.).
• Carry out application technology upgrades for frameworks like Angular, Spring Boot, Grails, React etc. as needed to keep up with security fixes.
• Support existing and develop new FME processes, ISDI, APIs, etc., to ensure data is seamlessly delivered to ECOSphere applications from EDW and other sources.
• Implement new functionalities and enhancements using Agile methodologies.
  • Review and complete items in the backlogs.
  • Keep, maintain, and address priorities conforming to Executive Orders, Secretarial Orders, along with service goals and mission support, including tracking and reporting capabilities.
  • Enhancements to current modules to include end of year reporting.
• Maintain and create automated tests (unit, integration). Document any manual test plans and test runs.
• Create database datasets to pull out key application data that will support reporting in SSRS and QuickSight
• Application Support and Maintenance: Provide Tier 2 and Tier 3 support services, including troubleshooting, bug fixes, configuration updates, and performance optimization
• User Experience Improvements: Gather feedback from end-users to inform design updates and usability enhancements.
• User Surveys to understand the user experience and be able to quantify satisfaction and the value and time savings of improvements.
• Develop an AI tool to enhance the user experience, populate workflows with important data, and generate products.
• DevSecOps Pipeline Integration: Ensure applications are integrated with automated CI/CD pipelines, with appropriate scans and testing protocols in place.
  • Refactor and optimize legacy applications or integrations to improve performance and security.

Cloud Infrastructure and Security

Maintain AWS environments supporting ECOSphere and associated applications.

• Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with FISMA and other federal standards.
• Monitor system health, performance, and availability.

Documentation

• Complete technical documentation:
  • System configurations, API documentation, and standard operating procedures.
  • Data integration workflows and security protocols.
• Complete weekly status reports detailing work completed, issues, and upcoming milestones

Requirements/Skills:

• Big data processing, cloud governance, and modern AI engineering
• Proficiency in Apache Spark and Delta Lake
• Good SQL and Python language skills
• Databricks platform experience or training
• Data pipeline and ETL design
• Knowledge of cloud services and DevOps
• Java (8+), Groovy, JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript, Python, R (R Shiny)
• Spring Boot, Grails, Angular, React, Docker, Jenkins
• REST API/Web Services, Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS Lambda
• SQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Neo4j, Redis
• Mulesoft, Artifactory, Tomcat