
Software Engineer Subject Matter Expert / Forensic Toolkit Lead Developer
AnaVation
- Clarksburg, WV
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Act as a subject matter expert for forensic tool portions of the customer code base and provide senior level design guidance while leading a team of developers to implement new features and resolve software issues.
- Lead the design, development and analysis of customer operational and application systems.
- Lead maintenance efforts, including system enhancements, bug fixes, and security enhancements.
- Integrate bug fixes, security enhancements and new capabilities as approved by the government.
- Deliver forensic tool builds using agile processes to deliver incremental builds based upon agreed upon customer requirements.
- Develop mechanisms to seamlessly share results with other customer applications using common databases, schemas and object storage methods.
- Develop intuited interfaces to exploit and discover relationships between multiple collections of data stored across multiple databases.
- Establish and maintain an Application Programming Interface to enforce backwards compatibility with original source and streamline development and integration of new functional modules.
- Assess and ensure software performance and reliability for all software modules and components including analytical and databases processes.
- Integrate new data types and analytic tools, techniques, and methodologies for seized media.
- Deploy and maintain software and hardware within customer environments.
- Deploy/maintain forensic tool deployments within all customer designated development and operational environments, including ensuring the tool remains consistent with all policies, procedures, and requirements.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field of study
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in software engineering.
- An active Top Secret clearance and the ability to obtain SCI access with a CI polygraph, if requested by the government. Candidates without Top Secret clearances cannot be considered.
- Technical experience in software development with a specialization in digital forensics and forensic tool development.
- Expert knowledge of forensic analysis techniques, file systems, data recovery, and evidence handling best practices.
- Demonstrated experience in leading the design and architecture of complex forensic software solutions.
- Experience addressing the challenges associated with processing and analyzing petabytes of digital evidence from various sources.
- Proficiency in .Net programming languages as well as thin client front-end technologies.
- Familiarity with forensic standards and protocols, and an ability to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements for digital evidence handling.
- Extensive experience delivering forensic software deployed in the commercial cloud and capable of distributed processing.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing projects that span software development, cybersecurity, and IT infrastructure.
- Experienced strategic planner, with a demonstrated ability to set a vision for a forensic toolkit's development and ensure alignment with organizational mission and goals.
- Strong communication skills; must be able to articulate complex technical issues to a non-technical audience, including law enforcement officers, analysts, and government officials.
- Relevant certifications related to technical architecture, software development, or forensics preferred.
- Relevant certifications related to technical architecture or software engineering preferred.