Lead Application Developer - SME
Posted 1 day ago
Multiple Openings
Location: Suitland, MD | Hybrid
Proposal Opportunity: This position is being recruited in support of an active federal proposal. Employment is contingent upon contract award, final customer requirements, and position availability. Candidates selected during the proposal phase may be asked to provide an updated resume and other information required for proposal submission.
About the Role
Essnova Solutions is seeking experienced Lead Application Developers – SME to support a large-scale federal application modernization initiative supporting the U.S. Census Bureau.
This role is designed for highly experienced software development professionals with deep expertise building, integrating, and modernizing enterprise Java applications.
The ideal candidate has extensive hands-on development experience and can provide technical leadership within complex enterprise development environments.
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, enhance, and maintain enterprise applications.
- Support modernization of complex and legacy application environments.
- Develop scalable services and application components using modern Java technologies.
- Design and integrate REST-based services and APIs.
- Support event-driven application integration using Kafka.
- Develop and maintain database integrations and application data access components.
- Participate in CI/CD and automated software delivery processes.
- Collaborate with architects, engineers, testers, security teams, and other development professionals.
- Support troubleshooting, optimization, integration, and technical documentation activities.
- Contribute to application-development standards and modernization practices.
Requirements
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of relevant application/software development experience.
- Senior/SME-level enterprise application development experience.
- Demonstrated experience with:
- Java 8
- J2EE
- Spring Boot
- Hibernate
- Kafka
- REST APIs
- PL/SQL
- Git/GitLab
- CI/CD pipelines
Preferred Qualifications
- Cloud certification or demonstrated cloud experience
- SAFe/Scrum or other Agile certification
- CSEP
Work Location
This position supports the U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters in Suitland, Maryland under a hybrid work model. Candidates must be located in the DC/MD/VA area or be willing to commute to Suitland.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Essnova Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Essnova Solutions is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and employment process.
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Ranked at 163 in the INC. magazine’s prestigious list of 500 fastest growing companies in the U.S, Essnova is an award winning, and mature small business offering broad range of technology and programmatic support services to the governmental and commercial customers. Essnova’s CEO is proud to be awarded with the Alabama’s SBA 2020 Small Business Person of the Year recognition. We offer specialization in SETA Services, Geospatial, Environmental and Medical Services. Our Technology Integration/VAR reseller unit augments our services with SME Support, products and licensing from hundreds of manufacturers. Essnova offers a highly capable management team, delivering mature management services as demonstrated by our Federal and commercial exceptional past performance. We utilize ISO-registered commercial best practices to deliver highly efficient and responsive solutions. Our team works diligently to ensure that we continue to be the world-class small business in our customers’ vendor portfolio. Comprised of solution architects, engineers, subject matter experts – Team Essnova stands ready to assist our customers with deploying enterprise, agency wide solutions from assessment, concept, design, technology solutions procurement, implementation, training and ongoing maintenance and management. We are the American Dream- a company comprised of normal everyday people who have a shared vision of being a contributing part of how this country and its people communicate, work together, and share together through technology and connection. This vision is what gives us the continued drive and excitement of working with the Federal agencies and Commercial organizations that are our clients, who all share our desire and goal to facilitate the implementation of systems and services that help communication and collaboration expand and be available to all who can benefit.
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