Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in innovative technology? Join us and unleash your potential working in an Agile environment while modernizing enterprise systems and applications needed to support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation’s safety, security, and prosperity.

As a Java Full Stack Developer you will offer your agile methodology experience as part of a dynamic and passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). You will bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural at the team and portfolio levels. The ability to be adaptable and to work constructively with a technically diverse and geographically separated team will be key to the overall success.

Your Role

• Design, develop and implement custom software and database application capabilities for a variety of legacy and modernized systems with limited oversight.
• Act as a member of a product team supporting teammates and collaborating with a do what it takes attitude to ensure product and team success.
• Provide improvements to the product(s) being supported
• Actively participate in release and sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases.
• Support release planning with conceptual design and development / refinement of software engineering guidelines.
• Analyze complex project-related problems and creating innovative solutions involving, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools and solution components

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain a CBP public trust clearance (criteria include, but not limited to; 3-year check for felony convictions, 1-year check for illegal drug use, 1-year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud).
• College degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline. Experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years of experience with Java; to include any of the following: Hibernate (or other ORM), Spring, JAX-RS, JavaScript, XML, JSON, Web-Services (JAX-WS or JAX-RS), JBoss, Eclipse, Maven, Junit, and shell scripting.
• MUST have recent experience with Angular development.
• Object oriented design and development (OODD) expertise, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Communicating OODD and SOA principles and best practices.
• Experience with source code control systems and concurrent development workflows (Git preferred).
• Experience using SQL or PL/SQL to access Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server databases.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong collaboration skills and desire to work within a team.
• Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong work ethic and a self-starter
• Additional with any of the following is highly desirable: HTML, Angular, React, VMware, ETL tools, ESB, message queuing, application security, automated testing, UML, VersionOne, Jira, or Sparx Enterprise Architect

Ignite IT offers a comprehensive salary and benefits package to include Medical, Dental, and Vision; Short Term/Long Term/Life Insurance; 401K with matching and fully Vested 100%; PTO; Holiday; Training; and much more…

Ignite IT is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran status, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristic. In accordance with EO 13665 Final Rule, Ignite IT will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

Applicants selected must be able to possess and maintain a government clearance as required for access to classified information.

US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED

**If located within 40 miles of Ashburn, VA, candidate is expected to work 1 day per week in-office**

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance