Ignite IT -  Innovation & Technology

Revenue Operations

• Define and execute enterprise growth strategy across federal markets
• Own Business Development and Capture functions
• Build and manage a qualified, winnable pipeline (12–36 months)
• Lead bid/no‑bid decisions and win strategy development
• Drive customer engagement, requirement shaping, and competitive positioning
• Own contract vehicle, teaming, JV, and mentor‑protégé strategies
• Own revenue performance, backlog, and forecasting
• Partner with Operations to ensure contracts are fully staffed and performing
• Drive option‑year exercise, task‑order wins, and contract growth
• Ensure margin discipline and revenue predictability
• Lead late‑stage recompete execution and customer retention
• Align growth pursuits with delivery capacity and financial targets
• Establish growth and revenue metrics, dashboards, and accountability
• Provide regular pipeline and revenue reporting to the CEO and COO
• Recruit, develop, and lead high‑performing BD, Capture, and Account teams

Chief Growth – Revenue Officer

Android Engineer

• Designing, developing, and implementing custom software and database application capabilities for a variety of legacy and modernized systems with limited oversight
• Acting as a member of a product team supporting teammates and collaborating with a do what it takes attitude to ensure product and team success
• Providing improvements to the product(s) being supported
• Actively participate in release and sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases
• Supporting release planning with conceptual design and development / refinement of software engineering guidelines
• Analyzing complex project-related problems and creating innovative solutions involving, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools and solution components
• Ensuring product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports
• Providing mentoring to junior members of the team

Android Mobile Developer, Java/Kotlin

Product Designer

• Use Agile development methodologies and ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including developers, product owners, and stakeholders
• Develop user interfaces that meet business requirements and user needs
• Lead the development of a cohesive look-and-feel and standardized user experience across applications
• Develop compelling, creative, and user-focused experiences and points of view that align with clients’ business objectives
• Collaborate with cross discipline team to create and execute experience style guides, interaction patterns, and information design standards
• Develop wireframes, mockups, and/or prototypes supporting design ideas and effectively communicate ideas to various stakeholders
• Establish standard layout and style libraries across applications
• Work closely with the functional team to determine feasibility of requirements and collaborate on design ideas and improvements.
• Ensure product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports
• Work independently and efficiently within agile software development environment, utilizing tools and practices like JIRA, Confluence, GitLab, unit testing and harness.
• Provide mentoring to junior members of the team
• Must be able to work on-site in Ashburn, VA 2-3 days per week

UI/UX Developer

System Administrator

• Providing technical expertise in designing, implementing, and managing secure and compliant cloud-based solutions within a government or highly regulated environment, with a strong emphasis on AWS GovCloud or equivalent secure cloud offerings.
• Responsible for the support of a broad range of AWS services in a secure government context, including but not limited to:
• - EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) within a secure VPC configuration
• - S3 (Simple Storage Service) with appropriate encryption and access controls
• - VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) design and management for segmented networks
• - RDS (Relational Database Service) with robust security configurations
• - IAM (Identity and Access Management) for granular privilege management
• - CloudWatch for monitoring and logging of security and performance events
• - Route 53 for secure DNS resolution
• - ELB/ALB (Elastic Load Balancing/Application Load Balancing) for resilient application delivery
• Manage full lifecycle of system engineering, including design, build, configuration, deployment, maintenance, and decommissioning of mission-critical server infrastructure that supports critical operational functions.
• Provide support with the administration and secure hardening of both Linux (specify distributions if relevant, e.g., RHEL, Ubuntu) and Windows Server operating systems, with a focus on implementing security controls and mitigating vulnerabilities.
• Support teams in planning and executing the migration of on-premises infrastructure to secure cloud environments, understanding the unique challenges of government data transitions.
• Support teams in migrating and modernizing legacy applications and systems, particularly those supporting critical system functions, to current or cloud-based platforms. This includes understanding data integrity and operational continuity during migration.
• Manage planning and executing SharePoint migrations, especially into secure government environments, ensuring data classification and access controls are maintained.
• Support database administration for systems handling sensitive information, including installation, configuration, performance tuning, robust backup and recovery strategies, and security hardening for common database systems (e.g., SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Involved with teams in conducting security assessments, vulnerability analysis, threat modeling, and implementing security best practices to ensure adherence to federal cybersecurity and privacy regulations.
• Establish and maintain strong, collaborative working relationships with diverse internal teams, stakeholders, other government agencies, and prime contractors.
• Meticulous approach to tasks, recognizing the critical nature of government systems and ensuring extreme accuracy in configuration, documentation, and problem resolution to maintain system integrity and compliance.
• Commitment to providing exceptional service and support to government stakeholders, understanding their operational needs and the importance of reliable IT systems.
• Clear, concise, and effective verbal communication skills, particularly when reporting technical status, risks, and solutions to a variety of technical and non-technical government personnel.
• Ability to understand complex operational challenges, translate them into actionable technical problems, and devise and implement robust, secure, and compliant solutions that meet CBP mission requirements.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact and responder for a majority of system-related incidents and requests, with a focus on minimizing downtime and impact to mission-critical CBP functions.
• Evaluating and recommending hardware and software enhancements as needed, including managing and testing system updates and patches to maintain performance and security.
• Troubleshooting configuration and integration issues across development, test, and production environments, ensuring smooth transitions and minimal service disruption.
• Creating and maintaining a variety of scripts to automate routine tasks, improve system efficiency, and support operational needs.
• Monitoring and optimizing system performance, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing recommended changes.
• Ensuring backup procedures are in place, functioning correctly, and executed on a timely basis, including validating restore integrity when required.
• Interfacing with vendor support service groups to ensure proper escalation during outages or periods of degraded system performance and following through to resolution.
• Maintaining existing systems by analyzing, designing, and implementing changes to system baselines so that updates meet customer requirements, and supporting upcoming technology refresh projects.

Systems Administrator

Database Administrator

• Help shape the future of how some of the nation’s most complex and challenging data are used to enhance national security and protect the lives of Agents, Officers, and those entering the country.
• Provide high-level architectural guidance, technical innovation, and analytical expertise to teams across CBP.
• Champion all aspects of data architecture, analytic methodology, and visualization functions including engineering standards, governance processes, and providing vision and context to explore and effectively utilize emerging technologies.
• Work with database developers and administrators across multiple product teams.
• Serve as a data and technology expert across a broad and diverse set of mission critical applications
• Actively participate in Agile Scrum sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations, retrospectives and solution releases
• Analyze project-related problems and create innovative solutions involving technology, analytic methodologies, and advanced solution components.
• Deliver deployable software in short sprints.
• The ability to be adaptable and work constructively with a technically diverse and geographically separated team is crucial.

Software Engineer

• Assist in documenting legacy system behavior and dependencies during structured discovery efforts.
• Support analysis of legacy components identified in the systems inventory.
• Contribute technical input to migration activities under Senior-Level Developer guidance.
• Implement migration tasks aligned to approved phased migration plans.
• Support refactor and modernization of scoped system components.
• Develop and maintain Python-based microservices and data processing modules.
• Implement user stories derived from EPIC decomposition.
• Refactor defined legacy modules into cloud-compatible components.
• Write clean, modular, testable code aligned to established architectural standards.
• Participate in code reviews and incorporate feedback.
• Develop application components for AWS environments including:
• Lambda
• ECS / Fargate
• S3
• EventBridge
• SNS/SQS
• Aurora/Postgres
• Implement API integrations and event-driven workflows.
• Contribute to containerization and serverless deployments.
• Ensure code complies with enterprise cloud guardrails and security standards.
• Develop CI/CD-compatible code.
• Write and maintain automated unit tests.
• Participate in pipeline troubleshooting.
• Address defects and security findings.
• Support observability implementation (logging, metrics).
• Participate in Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Contribute to story estimation and backlog refinement discussions.
• Deliver committed sprint objectives.
• Collaborate closely with Test Engineers to resolve defects.
• Assist in validating component-level integrations.
• Escalate cross-system integration risks to Senior Developers.
• Support documentation updates tied to implementation changes.
• Contribute to regression remediation efforts.

Mid-Level Developer

SDET

• Support a large-scale government agency initiative to modernize complex data systems.
• Ensure functional equivalence, data integrity, and automated regression validation during migration.
• Work as part of an Agile Scrum Team; collaborate across workstreams to validate end-to-end.
• Design and execute parallel validation frameworks comparing legacy to AWS outputs.
• Develop automated regression test suites using Python, Selenium, and additional automation frameworks.
• Validate business logic, data transformation, and end-to-end workflow outputs.
• Participate in Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Partner closely with developers for test-driven development and continuous validation.
• Design and implement automated testing frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Validate AWS Cloud Native workloads and enable push-button regression validation.
• Maintain requirements-to-test-case traceability and produce automated test artifacts.

Test Automation Engineer

• The Senior-Level Developer serves as a technical modernization leader responsible for designing, refactoring, and implementing AWS Cloud Native solutions as part of a large-scale legacy system-of-systems migration initiative.
• Actively participate in system discovery, contribute to development of a structured systems inventory, and support creation and execution of phased migration plans from legacy on-premises platforms to cloud-native environments.
• Ownership of complex refactoring efforts, architectural fidelity, and integration stability across interconnected modernization workstreams.
• Participate in structured discovery sessions to assess legacy systems, data flows, and integration dependencies.
• Collaborate with architects and Requirements Engineers to align modernization strategy with technical feasibility.
• Lead complex refactor efforts from legacy environments to Python-based AWS Cloud Native architectures.
• Ensure computational and functional equivalence during migration.
• Architect event-driven and serverless patterns.
• Identify cross-workstream integration risks.
• Design CI/CD-aware applications compatible with GitLab or equivalent pipelines.
• Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies.

Senior Developer

Data Engineer

• The Data Engineering Lead is responsible for designing and implementing modern, scalable data architectures to support migration of legacy, file-based analytical systems to AWS Cloud Native environments.
• This role leads the transformation of legacy SAS-based data storage models—including flat files, batch outputs, and subsystem-specific data artifacts—into structured, governed, and scalable data models optimized for cloud-native processing.
• The Data Engineering Lead will ensure data integrity, performance, and visibility across a system-of-systems modernization initiative, while providing technical leadership for data modeling, ingestion patterns, validation frameworks, and transparency reporting.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python and strong experience designing AWS-based data architectures are required.
• Architect scalable AWS data pipelines using services such as S3, Glue, Lambda, EventBridge, SNS/SQS, Aurora/Postgres, Batch, Athena.
• Develop advanced Python-based data transformation and validation pipelines.

Data Engineering Lead

Engineer

• Support a large-scale government agency initiative to modernize a complex, interdependent system of systems migrating from legacy on-premises platforms to AWS Cloud Native architectures.
• Conduct structured discovery sessions to understand legacy on-prem systems, workflows, data dependencies, and integration points.
• Document current-state (As-Is) and target-state (To-Be) capabilities supporting AWS Cloud Native migration.
• Support development of phased migration plans (e.g., refactor vs. lift-and-shift decisions).
• Identify cross-system dependencies that must be sequenced to prevent downstream rework or hybrid thrashing.
• Collaborate with architects to ensure requirements align to target cloud-native design principles.
• Develop modernization EPICs aligned to cloud-native re-architecture, data ingestion modernization, integration redesign, automation of manual workflow gates, DevSecOps enablement.
• Decompose EPICs into features and refined user stories with clear acceptance criteria, testable outcomes, and defined dependencies.
• Establish initial product backlog in collaboration with Product Owners.
• Ensure traceability from high-level modernization objectives to sprint-ready user stories.
• Collaborate with Requirements Engineers in other workstreams to coordinate interdependent user stories, align sequencing of integration capabilities, prevent duplication of effort, and manage shared components.
• Maintain visibility of system-of-systems impacts when new requirements are introduced.
• Support integrated release planning across workstreams.
• Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Standups, Reviews & Retrospectives).
• Work closely with Product Owners to prioritize backlog items, groom stories for sprint readiness, and ensure stories meet INVEST principles.
• Define and document Definition of Done (DoD) criteria including code complete, automated tests implemented, documentation updated, security checks passed.
• Support incremental delivery aligned to modernization milestones.
• Develop requirements artifacts supporting architecture review board submissions, interface control documentation, security authorization processes.
• Maintain end-to-end Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), ensuring requirements are testable and align with validation frameworks.
• Define requirements for high-volume data processing systems, event-driven and serverless architectures, API-based integration patterns, and database modernization (e.g., Postgres/Aurora migration).

Requirements Engineer

Operations

• Manage, track, report, process and assign tickets daily.
• Responsible for opening, tracking and closing tickets.
• Perform proactive network and systems monitoring.
• Assist in restoring service when outages occur.
• Review tickets daily and reprioritize as needed to ensure compliance with Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Define and classify level, priority and nature of problem, request and/or issue.
• Evaluate and prioritize incoming telephone, voice mail, e-mail, and in-person requests.
• Actively manage incident tickets and provide status updates on each ticket per SLA.
• Work with customers to collect information about problems and lead customers through diagnostic procedures to determine the source issue.
• Ability to craft technical and professionally written outage notifications and updates to incident stakeholders.
• Conduct continuous improvement service desk support and update knowledge base as required.
• Perform systems administration troubleshooting and support.
• Work in shift duties which includes 1st, 2nd, 3rd and swing shift.

Enterprise Operations Center Engineer

Manager

• Lead initial technical discovery efforts across legacy SAS systems.
• Partner with Cloud Architect and Technical SMEs to define target-state cloud-native architecture.
• Translate system-level modernization goals into actionable epics and initial product backlog.
• Identify migration sequencing strategy (refactor vs lift-and-shift).
• Establish MVP/Proof-of-Concept scope for initial modernization slice.
• Coordinate early governance artifacts (architecture reviews, EWG alignment).
• Establish and manage Agile Scrum or Kanban delivery framework.
• Build and maintain backlog aligned to modernization roadmap.
• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
• Ensure alignment between Product Owner (Federal) and technical team.
• Drive sprint-level execution across: Cloud Architecture, Cloud Engineering, Data Engineering, Application Development (Python), Testing (manual & automated), DevSecOps.
• Lead migration of on-prem SAS systems to AWS cloud-native architecture.
• Coordinate deployment of applications leveraging AWS services such as: Lambda, Fargate, Glue, Aurora/Postgres, S3, Batch, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager.
• Ensure Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices are implemented.
• Oversee containerization and serverless deployment strategies.
• Coordinate environment provisioning within EDL constraints.
• Ensure CI/CD pipelines are implemented and integrated with automated testing.
• Oversee regression validation between legacy SAS outputs and Python outputs.
• Integrate security scanning and vulnerability remediation into sprint cycles.
• Coordinate automated test framework implementation.
• Ensure quality gates are embedded in delivery lifecycle.
• Coordinate architecture documentation for: Enterprise Working Group (EWG), Architecture Review Board, Interface Control Documents (ICDs).
• Support Authority to Operate (ATO) readiness activities.
• Maintain alignment with Zero Trust, IUS, and Census security policies.
• Ensure traceability between requirements, backlog items, and delivered capabilities.
• Manage integration touchpoints across: Mojo, DICE, EDL, Tabulation, Processing systems, Downstream dissemination systems.
• Identify and mitigate cross-workstream risks.
• Plan modernization sequencing to avoid production disruption.
• Align delivery milestones with ACS operational cycles.
• Develop phased migration roadmap across multiple systems.
• Identify candidate systems for initial modernization.
• Prioritize low-risk, high-learning MVP slices.
• Manage parallel validation strategies where needed.
• Monitor risks associated with questionnaire changes and output comparability.

Cloud Manager

• Directory Management: Design, deploy, and maintain a highly available NetIQ eDirectory environment across multiple platforms (Linux/Unix/Windows).
• Custom Development: Develop and maintain custom NetIQ Identity Manager (IDM) drivers and workflows using XML, Java, and ECMAScript.
• Tooling & Automation: Build custom support tools and monitoring scripts (Python, Bash, or PowerShell) to automate provisioning, de-provisioning, directory health checks, replication monitoring, and mass data updates.
• Integration: Develop and validate custom LDAP/JDBC connectors for integrating the directory with modern web services (REST/SOAP), USAccess SIP, and SQL databases.
• Schema Engineering: Manage and extend custom eDirectory schemas to support new/existing application integration requirements while ensuring referential integrity and performance.
• Security & Troubleshooting: Act as the Level 3 SME for complex authentication issues, directory corruption, and performance tuning (indexing and partitioning).

Senior Identity Engineer

Technical Project Manager

• Lead the execution of modernization initiatives supporting the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) systems.
• Manage an Agile modernization team that delivers cloud-native, AWS-based solutions, replacing legacy SAS-based systems with Python and modern data architectures.
• Establish and manage Agile Scrum or Kanban delivery framework.
• Ensure alignment between Product Owner (Federal) and technical team.
• Drive sprint-level execution across Cloud Architecture, Cloud Engineering, Data Engineering, Application Development (Python), Testing (manual & automated), DevSecOps.
• Lead migration of on-prem SAS systems to AWS cloud-native architecture.
• Ensure Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices are implemented.
• Oversee containerization and serverless deployment strategies.
• Ensure CI/CD pipelines are implemented and integrated with automated testing.
• Coordinate architecture documentation for Enterprise Working Group (EWG), Architecture Review Board, and more.
• Identify and mitigate cross-workstream risks.
• Develop phased migration roadmap across multiple systems.

IT Project Manager

• Manage the complete lifecycle (provisioning, patching, upgrading, decommissioning) of all RHEL servers supporting the enterprise.
• Develop and maintain automation using Ansible, Bash, and/or Python to ensure consistent and rapid deployment of enterprise-wide changes.
• Deploy and maintain servers in clustered environments.
• Proactively monitor and tune the performance of the RHEL environment to support high-throughput, low-latency data processing and ingestion.
• Perform kernel-level tuning (sysctl), I/O optimization, and network performance analysis.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex performance bottlenecks related to CPU, memory, storage, and networking.
• Serve as an escalation point for both the Operations Center and other Unix team members.
• Triage and resolve infrastructure issues, providing root cause analysis.
• Work closely with application, storage, and network teams to resolve cross-domain service issues.
• Work with the Backup team to ensure consistent backups of all Linux servers.
• Implement and maintain system security in accordance with federal standards (NIST, FISMA, and DISA STIGs).
• Manage user access and system entitlements, including SSSD/LDAP/Active Directory integration.
• Troubleshoot and resolve SELinux problems.
• Participate in security audits and provide remediation for findings.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for 24/7/365 operational support.