Job Description
Job DescriptionSalary: $155,000 $175,000
The Software Engineer II will play a critical role in the successful delivery of the BIS IT Modernization Project, a federal initiative mandated by the BIS IT Modernization Act to enhance national security through improved control of sensitive U.S. technology exports. This role is responsible for eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and validating business and functional requirements to support the modernization of BISs legacy systems. US citizenship and a T3 Secret clearance is required. This is a 4 day a week onsite role in Washington, DC. One day a week is remote.
The incumbent will act as a bridge between BIS business owners, technical teams, and federal oversight bodies to ensure that modernization activities meet mission goals, cybersecurity requirements, and schedule/cost constraints.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable software applications supporting modernization of legacy systems.
- Participate in Agile development sprints, contributing to planning, estimation, and daily stand-ups.
- Collaborate with QA engineers to ensure unit testing, integration testing, and validation of new releases.
- Support cloud-based deployments using CI/CD pipelines and containerized environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Assist in identifying and remediating software vulnerabilities and performance bottlenecks.
- Contribute to technical documentation, including system design and operational procedures.
- Work under senior engineering guidance to ensure compliance with security and coding standards.
- Participate in code reviews and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance code quality and maintainability.
Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years experience in a full stack software engineering role. Ability to contribute front-end (React), Serverless Cloud Native (AWS, Azure), Data integrations and ETL pipeline development, and SQL
- Proven experience working on large-scale system modernization or digital transformation efforts.
- Expertise in software architecture, system design, and modernization of legacy platforms.
- Deep technical knowledge of cloud-native development, microservices, and container orchestration.
- Hands-on experience implementing DevSecOps pipelines and automation frameworks.
- Proficiency with API development, integration, and data exchange architectures.
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Candidate must possess
an Active Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain and maintain one.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Understanding of export control regulations such as the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and BIS mission.
- Experience working with licensing, enforcement, or compliance systems in a national security or regulatory context.
- Experience in data modeling, system integration planning, or enterprise architecture alignment.
- Snowflake, Palantir, Databricks experience
**MUST BE A US CITIZEN AND BE ABLE TO COMPLETE THE GOVERNMENT'S BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION**
Writing/Communication:
The employee may support federal programs under contract. Contract compliance activities, including scope of work, deliverables, and reporting on contract management activities to Company leadership is required. Ability to clearly articulate and provide technical guidance and assistance to senior agency program managers in the application of the advanced principles, practices and techniques of a specialized field of engineering/science.
Teleworking: The company has a hybrid remote policy for all employees and is dependent upon the type of position.This position may be assigned to support a federal contract, or to work in office. The Companys teleworking eligibility may not apply if the employee is supporting a federal services contract. In this instance, the employee may be subject to federal telework policies and may be required to work onsite in the federal facility when requested.
Position Sensitivity and Risk Designation: Moderate Risk
The position may support federal or state contracts. When required, the employee must at least go through a basic background check that can yield a public trust designation to make sure you are reliable, trustworthy, and suitable for the job. Amoderate risk
positionis likely to produce a fair amount of harm or serious damage to the publics trust. The agency with whom the contract is with, will ask you for the necessary personal information to start the background investigation process. The amount of information youll need to give depends on the contract award. Following the investigation, the agency will make their trustworthiness determination.
Employee Non-Disclosure:
The employee must sign and attest to the Companys non-disclosure statement. The employee is responsible for reporting to the Companys Compliance, Risk and Ethics Officer any conflicts of interest, and/or provide notification of outside employment, or when release of confidential business isshared with external parties.
Native Preference in Hiring
Indian Preference applies to this vacancy, in accordance with Akiak Companies Policy #20005. Proof of Indian preference is required. The Indian Preference law is a distinct statutethat does not violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended. Applicants who claim Indian preference must provide Tribal Membership Card, or letter from Tribal Government on Tribal Government letterhead indicating tribal status, or BIA Form 4432 when submitting an application for employment.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Akiak Family of Companies will attempt to provide equal opportunity to all qualified employees and applicants for employment, with the exception of those situations affected by the Tribal Preference policy. All aspects of employment will be governed on the basis of merit, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced by race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability or any other basis prohibited by law.
At Will Employment
All Employment with the Akiak Family of Companies are at will. The employee or Akiak Companies may terminate employment at any time and for any reason. Unless specified in writing, no term of employment is expressed or implied for this position