Aquia

Full-stack Engineer

• Design, develop, and maintain backend systems primarily using Ruby on Rails and Java, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Contribute to front-end implementation using React and JavaScript where needed to support full-stack delivery.
• Lead technical design sessions and architectural reviews to support scalable and resilient systems.
• Ensure seamless integration with VA services such as MPI, eCMS, and Vet360, adhering to VA's identity and access control standards (PIV, PKI, ICN).
• Proactively monitor system health and troubleshoot production issues using observability tools and dashboards.
• Champion accessibility, security, and performance best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Write clean, testable, well-documented code using GitHub for version control and collaboration.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to knowledge-sharing and continuous improvement practices.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and researchers to shape and deliver features aligned with user needs and business priorities.
• Participate in 2-week agile sprints, contributing to sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog grooming.

Senior Software Engineer

Data Analyst

• Lead the structuring, organization, and management of healthcare data to support AI use cases.
• Analyze large, diverse healthcare datasets to inform solution feasibility, testing, and evaluation.
• Apply healthcare terminology standards (ICD-10, CPT, LOINC, RxNorm, SNOMED) to normalize and connect data.
• Support development of algorithms, queries, and information models to derive insights.
• Conduct realized value assessments during pilots and present findings to VA leadership in actionable formats.
• Collaborate with solution architects, UX researchers, and engineers to align information architecture with product design.

Senior Data Analyst

Data Engineer

• Design and oversee AI/ML solution architectures for pilots and MVPs.
• Define system and data requirements to support prioritized use cases.
• Evaluate alternatives and select technical approaches that align with VA enterprise frameworks.
• Guide configuration of solutions using low-code/no-code methods where appropriate.
• Ensure solutions comply with VA’s enterprise standards (TRM, FICAM, TIC 3.0, IPv6, PAL).
• Collaborate with analysts, DevOps, and UX teams to integrate solutions into existing workflows.
• Provide technical advisement during testing and evaluation of product effectiveness.

Principal AI Data Engineer

Software Engineer

• Lead testing, development, and implementation for cATO automations to ensure optimal performance and integration with the agency’s existing systems, such as AWS, CI/CD Pipelines, and cloud-native technologies​.
• Automate RMF processes, ensuring the seamless integration of controls into an agency DevSecOps environment​, including API integration.
• Lead Aquia’s GRC Engineering practice. Support engineers in the practice with insight, guidance, and growth opportunities. Lead by example with technical ability and skillsets.
• Provide internal support to Aquia’s compliance initiatives by engineering solutions which simplify and automate Aquia’s compliance goals reducing cost as well as manual and cognitive load.
• Demonstrate mastery of compliance frameworks and the ability to engineer solutions which automate evidence collection to meet compliance requirements.
• Lead and build trust with internal and external cloud engineers, security teams, compliance stakeholders, and executive stakeholders through the journey of GRC Engineering modernization​.

Director of GRC Engineering

Product Designer

• Deliver wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI designs across product lifecycle.
• Collaborate with researchers to integrate user insights into design decisions.
• Contribute to and extend design systems and component libraries.
• Ensure compliance with accessibility standards and technical feasibility.
• Document design decisions and maintain clear design artifacts.
• Mentor peers and lead design critiques.

Senior UX Designer

• Develop and maintain web applications using JavaScript, React, and Node.js
• Design and build medium to large-scale applications on cloud platforms (AWS)
• Work in agile, multidisciplinary teams and collaborate across functions
• Use Docker and cross-platform environments to deploy and test applications
• Integrate with CMS systems and AWS cloud-native services
• Iterate on complex problems to produce working code and reliable solutions

Junior Software Engineer

• Own the end to end development of new features: discovery, implementation, deployment, and documentation in collaboration with product manager.
• Review test plans and collaborate with QA engineers to test.
• Write technical specifications to outline feature design, architecture, and implementation details; present specs for approval internally and externally.
• Work closely with external stakeholders to gather requirements, discuss solutions, and troubleshoot issues.
• Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices and maintain high-quality code.
• Investigate, debug, and resolve issues in production and development environments; work with stakeholders to determine scope and impact of issues.
• Participate in the on-call support process as the primary on-call engineer; investigate alerts and help triage production bugs; work with Prod Admin and Deployments manager to finalize and deploy releases.