Technical Lead/Databricks/Senior Java/Angular Developer

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

NACI (T1)

Job Family:

Software Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

AWS Devops, Databricks Platform, Java Software Development, Microservices Architecture, Spring Boot

Certifications:

None

Experience:

4 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a Software Developer Principal at GDIT. Here, you’ll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients. With a career in application development, you’ll make the end user’s experience your priority and we’ll make your career growth ours.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator and you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Software Developer Principal joining our team to design/develop/modernize the client's software in a highly Agile environment attending daily scrums and following Sprint Ceremonies/Best

​Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead a team that maintains and modernizes applications in cloud environments with emphasis on scalable, secure backend services for data‑driven tools.
• Build and maintain Databricks jobs/notebooks and integrations that support large-scale data ingestion, transformation, and analytics required by backend services and reporting components.
• ​Working on a fast-paced Angular/Java/Springboot development effort in a Cloud DevOps environment with a 100% remote Agile team
• Design, implement, and maintain backend components and APIs that integrate, aggregate, and expose data from multiple upstream systems and data stores (e.g., relational databases, search engines, and Databricks-backed data pipelines).
• Implement and execute performance tests to identify and help remediate performance bottlenecks in databases, Databricks jobs, search engines, and microservices.
• Work within Agile/Scrum teams, using Rally to manage and update user stories and tasks throughout 3‑week sprints.
• Analyze and implement user stories to meet functional and non‑functional requirements accurately (performance, scalability, security, usability).
• Write clean, maintainable code with comprehensive unit tests to ensure performance, reliability, and a consistent user experience.
• Enforce unit testing and code coverage standards before commits/merges in GitLab to reduce defects.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, testers, product owners, data engineers, and stakeholders) to deliver high-quality software that aligns with business and domain needs.
• Build and manage datasets to support automated, manual, and exploratory testing, including realistic scenarios involving integrated data sources.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
● Required Experience:

• 3+ years of related Databricks experience and system integration with an Agile development team
• Ability to lead, communicate and troubleshoot with a team that works 100% remotely
• Be online and responsive to the team and client using email/TEAMS chat during business hours

● Required Technical Skills:

• Hands-on experience with Databricks for data processing, transformation, and analytics, including developing and maintaining data pipelines/notebooks that integrate with backend services and downstream data stores.
• Strong experience in back-end services and implementing capabilities to support web applications using microservices.
• 5+ years of Java/J2EE (Java 19 or higher preferred) work experience.
• Experience with systems that integrate and aggregate data from multiple sources using Databricks to support analytical or examination workflows.
• Experience with performance tracking, workflow, or analytics systems that rely on integrating data from multiple enterprise sources.
• Java REST APIs / Microservices.
• Angular 19+.
• Typescript, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript, PrimeNG, RxJS.
• 2+ years of AWS experience with:
  • ECS (building Docker images and deploying them in a cluster).
  • ECR (Docker image repository).
• 2+ years of relational database experience with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL (or Oracle 19), including the ability to write and understand SQL queries.
• Experience designing and implementing data access layers and integrations with search/analytics engines (e.g., Elasticsearch) for high‑volume query workloads.
• Terraform and GitLab pipeline configuration.
• Building and coding backend applications and/or models using Spring/Spring Boot framework.

● Security Clearance Level: Public Trust
 

● Preferred Skills:

• OpenTelemetry.
• Grafana.
• Prometheus.
• SONAR.
• JSON, XML data formats.
• Selenium Testing Framework.
• Bash/PowerShell.
• Experience with Okta.

● Location: Remote
● US Citizenship or Green Card Required with 2 years of continuous residency in the US

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
● 401K with company match
● Comprehensive health and wellness packages
● Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
● Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
● Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
● Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

The likely salary range for this position is $136,000 - $184,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

None

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

 

 

Our Identity Verification Process:

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

 

 

About Our Work:

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

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