Senior Analytics Platform Engineer — Mission-Critical Lead

Vuejobs; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GC2IT seeks a Senior Software Engineer - Analytics Services Lead to own the design, delivery, performance, and operation of analytics services for a large-scale mission platform. You will lead Java-based microservices and analytics infrastructure built around Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, and Vue.js 3 interfaces.

The role requires 10+ years in software or analytics, strong leadership, and expertise with Elasticsearch, Grafana, and end-to-end analytics pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; four years may substitute for a degree.
• 10+ years in software/data platform engineering or analytics; 4+ years leading teams.
• Hands-on experience building analytics or search services in production.
• Strong ownership of analytics domain from architecture to operations.
• Experience leading multi-team analytics/search delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own analytics services portfolio including user analytics, search, and dashboards.
• Lead Java-based microservices for analytics, search, aggregation, and reporting.
• Define data models, indexing, sharding, and caching for analytics workloads.
• Ensure latency, SLA adherence, and observability for mission operations.
• Guide dashboards and role-based analytics views for visualization.

Skills

Java backend

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Logstash

Grafana

Vue.js 3

Microservices

Performance optimization

Telemetry/APM

Distributed systems

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Elasticsearch stack

Job description

GC2IT seeks a Senior Software Engineer - Analytics Services Lead to own the design, delivery, performance, and operation of analytics services for a large-scale mission platform. You will lead Java-based microservices and analytics infrastructure built around Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, and Vue.js 3 interfaces.

The role requires 10+ years in software or analytics, strong leadership, and expertise with Elasticsearch, Grafana, and end-to-end analytics pipelines.