Software Engineer

This is a full-time position, and requires a TS/SCI/Full Scope Polygraph Clearance.

2HB Incorporated is seeking a Data Scientist in order to support its government customers in the Chantilly, VA area.

The Contractor shall be required to communicate and collaborate across organizational boundaries, to include other contractor teams across the Sponsor's organization. The Contractor shall be required to work with Sponsor staff and contractor personnel, as well as external stakeholders.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

The Contractor shall ensure that all developed applications and modifications to existing Sponsor applications comply with Sponsor's security and architectural policies and regulations. Planned activities shall be coordinated with all stakeholders and approved by the Sponsor. See classified narrative addendum for additional technical requirements. The Contractor Team shall:
Develop innovative solutions to exploit mission critical mobile artifacts while also streamlining user triage and analytic processing of mobile metadata (text, multimedia, networks).

The Contractor Team shall work closely with an analytics team to exploit data; the Sponsor project manager will manage specific exploitation priorities.

The Contractor Team shall coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure tools meet Sponsor defined requirements.

The Contractor Team shall apply DevOps principles and philosophies to continuously deliver enhancements to software in a service-based architecture.

The Contractor Team shall support data engineering efforts to transfer, load, and analyze large data sets to derive data relationships.

The Contractor Team shall maintain all source code in Sponsor-wide, Git repositories.

The Contractor Team shall develop and improve upon existing analytic tools and techniques to support mission specific data challenges.

The Contractor Team shall develop and apply data exploitation models and devise creative data exploitation strategies; the Sponsor project manager will manage specific exploitation priorities.

The Contractor Team shall routinely engage with stakeholders to determine requirements, analyze problems, evaluate options, and offer Information Technology (IT)-based recommendations and options.

The Contractor Team shall advise stakeholders on IT methods and data needed or available to satisfy requirements that shall be documented in a format understood by the stakeholders to enable Sponsor decisions.

The Contractor Team shall integrate, analyze, evaluate, and assess quantitative data, using statistical software, computer models, geospatial models, software languages, mathematical models, or machine learning, to contribute to or develop IT solutions to requirements such as software tools, analytic models, or reports.

The Contractor Team shall prepare and communicate the workings and results of computational models and tools at a technical level that can be understood by various audiences.

The Contractor Team shall develop scripts to forensically carve content from various database and file formats.

The Contractor Team shall parse artifacts from databases commonly stored on mobile devices.

The Contractor Team shall inspect network traffic to recognize security protocols.

The Contractor Team shall understand and utilize certificate pinning.

The Contractor Team shall decompile mobile application packages.

The Contractor Team shall build and maintain databases.

The Contractor Team shall build Elasticsearch indexes.

The Contractor Team shall manage access to data items according to enterprise security models.

The Contractor Team shall manage cloud services according to Sponsor's guidelines.

Critical Core Competencies

Python Programming - Programs and develops applications in Python to parse and process key attributes from within various data structures. Experience employing Python libraries in various software development environments.
Systems Integration/Engineering - planning, leading and implementing scrum adoption, increasing team productivity, collaborating between the product owner and project teams. Possess knowledge of a total systems perspective, including a technical understanding of project relationships, dependencies, and requirements of hardware and software components.

Data Modeling - design and update pre-existing data models based on newly recognized data. Experience with big data platforms.

Data Engineering - experience extracting content from different data storage locations. The data engineer shall be able to transform content into standards defined by forensics community this work will be developed within and subsequently load content through a pipeline.

Mobile Forensics Specialist - experience with the latest tools to parse artifacts, inspect network traffic, reverse engineer mobile applications and other mobile forensics expertise. Current tools are predominantly open source and change rapidly based on iPhone and Android phone releases. Specialist shall stay current with the quickly changing tools.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML) Modeling - Develop predictive analytics as well as AI and ML models derived from English and non-English language data.

DevOps Engineering - designs and develops DevOps pipelines to support Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) microservices on a cloud infrastructure utilizing tool suites such as Ansible, GitHub and Jenkins.

Skills and Key Positions

Skills and key positions listed below are identified as required or highly desired in support of work activities under this contract.
Required Skills and demonstrated Experience

The Contractor shall ensure, for the duration of the contract, that contractor personnel assigned to work under this contract maintain institutional knowledge and competency level necessary for all required skills, to include demonstrated on-the-job experience.
The Contractor Team shall possess and provide the following required skills and demonstrated experience:
Demonstrated experience working on long-term project schedules, while addressing real-time questions from system users and partners

Demonstrated experience coordinating with partners to gather mobile forensics requirements.

Demonstrated experience working with operations personnel to define priority requirements in relations to strategic mission areas.

Demonstrated on-the-job experience with forensic exploitation capabilities and associated production analytical systems

Demonstrated experience developing and presenting program artifacts that are appropriately tailored to meet the information needs of the audience.

Demonstrated experience engaging and collaborating with external partners on emerging technologies and solutions.

Demonstrated experience utilizing and facilitating Agile methodologies to enable predicable software delivery.

Demonstrated experience documenting business process and decomposition of requirements.

Demonstrated experience communicating and interacting with all levels of the workforce.
Demonstrated experience parsing and triaging forensic artifacts and databases.

Demonstrated experience exploiting large collections of .