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Established in 1998, SNAP, Inc. (SNAP) is an SBA-certified Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) and certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) in Maryland and Virginia. SNAP employs more than 150+ professionals. SNAP has office locations throughout the United States including our beautiful headquarters in Chantilly, Virginia. Our other locations include Newport News, Virginia; Rockville, Maryland; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. SNAP is externally appraised at CMMI Level 3 for both Services and Development, holds ISO 9001, 20000, and 27001 certifications, and a Top Secret facility security clearance.

SNAP is a trusted partner to many Government agencies, holds several key government contract vehicles, and provides a variety of IT services including: Application development and System Integration, Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security & Information Assurance, Operations and Maintenance, Help Desk, eLearning, and mission-critical training support services. SNAP's ability to identify and define the needs of our customers, our record of accomplishment for meeting those needs, and our reputation for total customer satisfaction results in a continually growing a top-tier customer list www.snapinc.net/clients).

Proposed Work Location: Census Bureau Headquarters, Suitland, Maryland

SNAP is pursuing a contract with the U.S. Census Bureau to provide an experienced Sr. Lead Developer. The preferred candidate will possess Census Bureau experience, excellent people and
leadership skills, and great communication and presentation skills. This position will lead and will serve as a mentor for a team of Developers on a large program supported by more than 100 full-time employees.

The selected candidate will perform the following duties (this is not a comprehensive list of all duties to be performed):

• Provide software development services including designing, developing, implementing and, maintaining software applications and databases necessary to access, process, manipulate, manage and store data used to support the 2020 Census, ACS, EDS and GSS programs and other ADDC supported Census Bureau programs. Support will be for new and existing systems

• Provide an application architecture services that focuses on how to create overarching modules, designs, and standards for the software

• Provides architecture services that determines the proper coding language, the coding library approaches, and operating systems

• Work as part of a collaborative team with the DITD technical staff, subject matter experts, and other Census Bureau contractors to support software/database/system development for the following existing and future systems supporting Decennial programs. This includes but not limited to systems within the Decennial Directorate.

• Quality control operations by providing the mechanism for selecting quality control samples as well as validating production interview data against administrative records sources and by providing a tool for clerical matching to compare the production interview data against re-interview data.

• Automated systems for processing the comparison of address and person data collected and
  processed by Decennial Census and surveys. The systems will include both interactive and non-interactive processes for clerical and computer matching.

Technical Qualifications/Requirements

Qualified candidates should have:

• Previous experience working as a Lead Developer on a similar-sized project with the one or more skills in the following developer language(s) and tools:

• Software (required to proficiency at least one or more):

  • Oracle Database 11g or higher; MYSQL; SAS; PL/SQL; SQL (ANSI); ORACLE APEX; JAVA; JAVA Script; Ajax and/or other front-end skills; ERSI ARCGIS for desktop; ESRI
    ARCGIS for SERVER; ESRI ARCGIS for PORTAL; ESRI ARC SDE geo database (ORACLE); ORACLE WebLogic; ORACLE OBIEE; ORACLE OID; ORACLE ACCESS MANAGER; SAFE SOFTWARE FME DESKTOP SERVER AND ENGINE; Apache; JBOSS; IIS; JDEVELOPER; ECLIPSE; Shell Scripting; Perl Scripting; PBS Pro Workflow; Tomcat.

• Software/Applications Tools:

  • HP UFT/Selenium (Automated Testing); Hewlett Packard Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM) Tool; Microsoft Professional Suite including VISIO and SharePoint (2010 or newer); JIRA Agile/Version One; TOAD; Jama/Rally (Requirements Management; Just In Mind/Axure RP (Rapid Prototyping); Subversion; GIT; MAVEN; JENKINS; Serena Version Manager; Serena Business Manager (SBM)

Education/Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field plus a minimum of 5 years of related experience

• Proposed Work Location: Census Bureau Headquarters, Suitland, Maryland
• Contract Length *upon contract award*: 6 years (1 year plus 5 option years)
• Tax Terms:  W2 Only / Salary: Competitive salary with benefits package
• Clearance: Active Public Trust clearance
• Please indicate current immigration status and desired salary range when applying
• SNAP, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)

Why be a SNAP Employee?

SNAP is an employee-focused, forward-thinking technology company that delivers quality, innovative, and agile solutions to our customers. We have always believed that our success comes first and foremost through delivering on our commitments and ensuring our customers meet their business and mission objectives.

We are passionate about what we do and have cultivated a team-oriented collaborative organization with a collegial atmosphere that encourages participation, innovation, and entrepreneurship for all employees.

We recognize that in order to achieve our vision, we must attract highly qualified professionals that share our passion and spirit of excellence. To that end, we are proud to offer exciting and rewarding contract and corporate opportunities, a full and generous compensation package which includes highly competitive
salaries, 100% company paid group medical/dental insurance (employee) and 50% company-paid
for dependents, and multiple paid leave opportunities (10 holidays and 15 days PTO).

We also offer life and disability coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, and Relocation Assistance (for qualified and pre-approved employees).

To learn more about our culture of employee engagement, our plans for continued exponential growth, new and existing contract vehicles and clients, or our excellent benefits offered to employees and W2 contractors, please visit http://www.snapinc.net/careers.html.