Backend Developer

Company: IBM
Location: Reston
Posted on: October 4, 2024

Job Description:

Transforming Client Data into Business Value
As a Data Scientist at IBM, you will help transform our clients' data into tangible business value by analyzing information, communicating outcomes, and collaborating on product development.
Your Role and Responsibilities

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• Improve algorithm performance, improve data quality, incorporate new datasets, and enable new analytics.
  
• Maintain polyglot database environment, extend event-driven micro-services, and insert new technologies as appropriate to achieve stakeholder-desired capabilities.
  
• Interface with the client, stakeholders, military personnel, and data providers to ensure stakeholder buy-in and populate backlog for future innovation.
  
  Required Technical and Professional Expertise
  
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  • US Citizen with active TS//SCI clearance or show immediate eligibility according to JPAS security database
    
  • 2+ years of Python programming experience
    
  • 2+ years of experience architecting, designing or programming applications in hybrid cloud or on-prem environments
    
  • Experience with employing, customizing, optimizing, and/or managing NoSQL database technology
    
  • Experience with custom ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) development (vice employing off-the shelf solutions, e.g. Apache Nifi)
    
  • Experience with designing algorithms to infer relationships between events or entities
    
  • Experience with designing validation and/or diagnostic approaches to ensure strong data quality
    
    Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
    
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    • Experience coding in operational military and/or intelligence networks or settings
      
    • Experience with employing, customizing, optimizing, and/or managing MongoDB
      
    • Experience with Celery or analogous asynchronous task queue technologies
      
    • Experience with algorithmic development that merges, standardizes, and links related data sources
      
    • Skills with implementing and customizing ElasticSearch for text search use cases
      
    • Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
      
    • Experience with gathering operational and intelligence data from classified DoD systems
      
    • Experience with national or military intelligence capabilities and their use
      
    • Experience with transitioning on-prem capabilities to cloud
      
    • Experience with natural language processing (NLP) or other techniques to extract value out of unstructured data
      
    • Data visualization experience using JavaScript (such as Chart.js or D3)
      
    • Experience with MVC frameworks (e.g., React.js), Node.js, and Web API design
      
      About IBM
      IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world.
      About Your Life @ IBM
      At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners, and the planet.
      

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