Software Engineer Lead 670

(EDO) Entertainment Data Oracle, Inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Competitive compensation and benefits

Generous PTO

Job summary

Freedom Technology Solutions Group is seeking a Software Engineer Lead to build scalable, distributed systems for AI/ML‑driven enterprise applications. You will lead a team of developers and data scientists to deliver production‑grade services on petabyte‑scale data.

You will own core capabilities from ingest pipelines to search infrastructure, while integrating AI/ML, ensuring security and performance in high‑stakes environments. Strong communication and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• Active security clearance with polygraph.
• 4–6 years backend development in Python and Java.
• 4–6 years frontend development with Angular.
• 6–8 years AWS architecture design.
• 6–8 years Linux scripting and system utilities.
• 2–3 years AI/ML development and data science understanding.
• Experience on Agile teams (Scrum/Kanban).
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, and GitHub for documentation.

Responsibilities

• Participate with iterative software development teams following reporting requirements.
• Integrate AI/ML into production web applications.
• Design, develop and unit test code for production systems.
• Develop rapid prototypes to refine requirements and design.
• Provide demonstrations and walkthroughs to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Meet with stakeholders to translate requirements into tasks.
• Create technical documentation for program reviews and workflows.
• Write and maintain documentation for workflows and compliance.
• Optimize application performance for scalability and security.

Skills

Python

Java

Angular

AWS

Linux

AI/ML

Agile/Scrum/Kanban

SQL/NoSQL

Object‑Oriented

Microservices

Tools

Docker

Podman

Kubernetes

Jira

Confluence

GitHub

ElasticSearch

Solr/Lucene/OpenSearch

Tableau

Pandas

D3.js

spaCy/NLTK/CoreNLP/Gensim

Job description

Overview

Freedom Technology Solutions Group is currently seeking a Software Engineer Lead to work on a suite of services that will supply users with tools to automate a wide range of enterprise‑wide applications and data‑centric mission management applications, with a focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). The candidate will be part of a team of Software Developers, ETL Developers, and Data Scientists to enhance existing production applications and build out new web services on a routinized production cadence to meet the evolving needs of users. This role is focused on developing high‑performance, distributed systems that operate on petabyte‑scale structured and unstructured data, enabling mission users to rapidly access, process, and exploit critical information.

You will operate at the intersection of big data, distributed systems, and mission analytics, building core platform capabilities such as ingest pipelines, text extraction services, and search infrastructure that directly enable downstream analytics, AI, and operational workflows. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role for engineers who thrive on building scalable systems from the ground up, solving hard data problems, and delivering production‑grade capabilities that operate in high‑stakes, real‑world environments.

Responsibilities

• Participate with iterative software development teams with adherence to all reporting requirements.
• Integrate AI/ML technology into a production web application.
• Design, develop and unit test code for a production system and demonstrate capabilities.
• Develop rapid prototypes to drive out requirements and design.
• Provide demonstrations and detailed walk‑through of features to a variety of technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Meet with stakeholders, analyze requirements, develop user stories, and translate these into software development tasks.
• Develop technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed.
• Write and maintain technical documentation for application workflows, integrations, and compliance procedures.
• Optimize and enhance application performance, ensuring scalability and security.

Mandatory Skills

• An active security clearance with polygraph.
• 4‑6 years in backend development – must be proficient in both Python and Java.
• 4‑6 years in frontend development like Angular.
• 6‑8 years of AWS Architecture design proficiency.
• 6‑8 years of Linux proficiency – shell scripting, mounting drives, text editing with vi or emacs, system diagnostic checks.
• 2‑3 years working with AI/ML development and data science understanding.
• Experience on Agile software development teams following Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, and GitHub for documenting work and team collaboration.
• 6‑8 years of experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• 6‑8 years of experience with development and deployment of applications in the Commercial Cloud Services or an Amazon Web Services cloud environment.
• 6‑8 years of experience with search and analytic tools such as ElasticSearch, Solr/Lucene, or OpenSearch.
• 2‑4 years of experience with ETL using large structured and unstructured raw data sets.
• 6‑8 years of experience designing, developing, testing and implementing new applications based on project requirements.
• Ability to work individually as well as in project teams, decomposing concepts to discrete development tasks and managing work to a deadline.
• 6‑8 years of experience in microservices including Docker, Podman, or other containerization services.
• 6‑8 years in Object‑Oriented programming. Python is the preferred development language.

Desired Skills

• Experience with text analytics and its applications in business intelligence/business analytics (search, entity extraction, sentiment analysis, document summarization, document categorization).
• Experience developing proof‑of‑concepts of new technologies and evaluating state‑of‑the‑art machine‑learning algorithms for text analytics.
• Experience with machine‑learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Keras, TensorFlow.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Pandas, D3.js, ggplot.
• Experience with relational or non‑relational data stores such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, or DynamoDB.
• Experience with NLP tools such as spaCy, NLTK, Stanford CoreNLP, or Gensim.
• Experience with OCR, search ranking, duplicate detection, BERT, image recognition, fuzzy search, NER, document categorization.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment.
• A team mentality – work with friendly, like‑minded professionals.
• Work with innovative, cutting‑edge technologies.
• Extremely competitive compensation and benefits.
• Work‑life balance you can count on.
• Opportunities to grow and advance your career at no cost to you.
• Matching 401(k), fully paid medical, and more.
• Generous paid time off – including paid site closure days.
• Competitive salary offerings.
• Paid training and tuition reimbursement.
• Fully paid life and disability insurance.
• Company‑sponsored events (game nights, holiday party, summer party, happy hours).

Equal Opportunity Employer

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.

Accessibility: If you need an accommodation as part of the employment process, please contact Human Resources at 410‑290‑9035.