Software Engineer SME - Forensic Toolkit Lead Developer

About the role

The Software Engineer SME - Forensic Toolkit Lead Developer acts as a subject matter expert for forensic tool portions of the code base and provide senior-level design guidance while leading a team of developers to implement new features and resolve software issues. This contract supports a government agency's capability to ingest, process, and analyze massive volumes of digital evidence into actionable intelligence. The program drives full lifecycle development, from building scalable applications and forensic tools to integrating enterprise services and maintaining hybrid cloud and classified infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert for forensic tool portions of the code base and provide senior level design guidance while leading a team of developers to implement new features and resolve software issues.
• Lead the design, development and analysis of customer operational and application systems.
• Maintain and enhance existing systems, including system enhancements, bug fixes, and security enhancements.
• Integrate bug fixes, security enhancements and new capabilities as approved by the government.
• Develop mechanism to seamlessly share results with other applications using common databases, schemas and object storage methods.
• Develop intuited interfaces to exploit and discover relationships between multiple collections of data stored across multiple databases.
• Establish and maintain an Application Programming Interface to enforce backwards compatibility with original source and streamline development and integration of new functional modules.
• Assess and ensure software performance and reliability for all software modules and components including analytical and databases processes.
• Integrate new data types and analytic tools, techniques, and methodologies for seized media.
• Deploy and maintain software and hardware within customer environments.
• Deploy/maintain forensic tool deployments within all designated development and operational environments, including ensuring the tool remains consistent with all policies, procedures, and requirements.

Qualifications

• Technical experience in software development with a specialization in digital forensics and forensic tool development.
• Expert knowledge of forensic analysis techniques, file systems, data recovery, and evidence handling best practices.
• Familiarity with forensic standards and protocols, and an ability to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements for digital evidence handling.
• U.S. citizenship with active TS and the ability to obtain a SCI.
• Experienced strategic planner, with a demonstrated ability to set a vision for a forensic toolkit's development and ensure alignment with organizational mission and goals.
• Demonstrated experience in leading the design and architecture of complex forensic software solutions.
• Experience addressing the challenges associated with processing and analyzing petabytes of digital evidence from various sources.
• Proficiency in .Net programming languages as well as thin client front-end technologies.
• Extensive experience delivering forensic software deployed in the commercial cloud and capable of distributed processing.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing projects that span software development, cybersecurity, and IT infrastructure.
• Strong communication skills; must be able to articulate complex technical issues to a non-technical audience, including law enforcement officers, analysts, and government officials.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ Years experience in Software Engineering
• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field