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Location

Vienna, VA | United States

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Job description

Position: Full Stack Developer - Developer LCAT
Job Type: Full-Time
Length of Contract: 1 year
Location: Remote (Preference for candidates in Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia and San Antonio)

POSITION OVERVIEW
SteerBridge Strategies is supporting a national-level program for the Veterans Benefits Administration (“VBA”) to modernize its delivery of educational benefits to Veterans. The Digital GI Bill (DGIB) is a top priority for our strategic partner, Accenture Federal Services (AFS). As partners, SteerBridge and AFS are looking for the most talented IT professionals to join this dynamic, multi-year opportunity.

The VBA is responsible for administering the department's programs that provide financial and other forms of assistance to veterans, their dependents, and survivors. Claims are currently processed at Regional Processing Offices by Claims Examiners. The VBA envisions improved customer service and mission accomplishment by digitizing the process. This project will provide a user-friendly service for beneficiaries to apply, withdraw, amend, transfer or perform other actions with improved timeliness and accuracy of award decisions. Due to the technical deficit in the VBA’s application and IT infrastructure, implementing these changes will be challenging and under an aggressive timeline.

LOCATION

• This is a REMOTE position.
• Candidates are expected to travel for co-located working sessions (approximately 10-12 times a year) to AFS office in Chantilly, VA, or other locations as needed.
• Preference for candidates local to Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, and San Antonio.

REQUIRED

• Must be a US Citizen, Dual Citizen, or Green Card Holder (Permanent Resident).
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering or other Engineering or Technical discipline is required plus a minimum of five (5) years related work experience. Eight (8) years of may be substituted for education, for a total of thirteen (13) years of work experience.
• Must be able to pass a Public Trust background check.
• Travel to the AFS office in Chantilly, VA, or other locations as needed.
• Must be able to work East Coast business hours.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / QUALIFICATIONS

• Must have experience in analyzing customer needs and developing overall concept and design objectives.
• Must be able to create software in a variety of programming and for a variety of IT software applications.
• Must have experience in debugging and correcting errors in computer programs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Consuming data via service integration (i.e. REST and/or SOAP APIs)
• Developing for Section 508 and WCAG 2.x compliance
• Quality assurance unit testing integration
• CI/CD processes and tools including Jenkins, Git/BitBucket, SonarQube
• Experience with MEAN/DEAN (Mongo/Dynamo, Express, Angular, Node) stack
• Experience with Eclipse/VSCode/IntelliJ/NetBeans/FireBug/Chrome development tools
• Experience with databases, SQL, data modeling
• Experience with performance tuning
• Experience with mobile (IOS, Android) and hybrid frameworks (Ionic,Titanium, etc.)
• Experience with Agile (SCRUM, Kanban), Standard SDLC, CMMI compliant projects
• Experience with issue tracking software (e.g. JIRA, BugZilla, Rational Suite)
• Experience with Quality Assurance code quality frameworks (e.g. SonarQube, OWASP)
• Experience with source control management (SVN, GIT, Mercurial, CVS)
• Experience with build/continuous integration (Maven, Ant, Grunt, Gulp, Node/NPM, Webpack, etc.

COMPENSATION
(Starting from $140,000.00) A salary commensurate with background and experience will be offered.

BENEFITS

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(k) with matching
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Federal Holidays

SteerBridge Strategies is committed to equal employment opportunity and nondiscrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person’s race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. SteerBridge Strategies will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities in accordance with applicable law.

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Salary

$140k - $159k