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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Software Engineer, Analytic Services Lead to join our team!

In this role you will own the design, delivery, performance, and operational evolution of the analytics services domain for a large-scale, globally distributed mission platform.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Owning the analytics services portfolio, including search, aggregations, event rollups, telemetry analytics, and user-facing visualization services
• Leading the design and delivery of Java-based analytics microservices and supporting ingestion, indexing, and reporting workflows
• Defining indexing, sharding, retention, and query strategies across operational telemetry and business-facing analytics workloads
• Tuning and optimizing queries and service interactions to meet strict performance and latency requirements in real-time mission workflows
• Ensuring analytics microservices remain scalable, observable, and reliable across globally distributed deployments

What Required Skills You’ll Bring:

• TS/SCI minimum clearance required.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Systems (or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree)
• 15+ years of software, data platform, search, or analytics engineering experience, including 4+ years owning a major technical service domain
• Strong hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana/Grafana, and Java-based microservices
• Proven ownership of analytics/search architecture across indexing, query design, aggregation patterns, and UI visualization
• Strong troubleshooting skills across ingestion, indexing, query performance, UI layers, and distributed systems

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring:

• Experience with Vue.js 3 or similar frameworks for analytics dashboards
• Experience building analytics or observability solutions in distributed microservices environments
• Experience with telemetry pipelines, distributed tracing, or APM-driven analysis
• Experience optimizing Elasticsearch clusters for mixed workloads (user analytics + operational telemetry)
• Experience integrating event pipelines or stream processors into analytics workflows

Security Clearance Requirement:

An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.​

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

Salary Range: $148,300.00 - $266,900.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!

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