Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Senior Software Developer with NASA Contractor

Summary: Experienced software developer sought to join the staff of INNOVIM, to work on a project at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA/GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. The position calls for software development and Web applications experience.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities: Provide programming, web application development and deployment support for an Earth science data project at NASA/GSFC. This work will encompass:
• Develop and implement a Web service and client to provide data archive interrogation, retrieval and processing services.
• Lead deployment and software testing efforts. Support end-user community.
• Support the existing code base and improve current functionality.
• Fix defects associated with the application and potentially prototype new architectural features.
• Interface with network and system administration staff.
• Author technical documentation such as API and user manual.
• Coordinate and lead client status meetings and author status reports.
• Mentor and lead junior engineers
• Conduct configuration management on code, technical documentation and libraries
• Handle the technical aspects of development; implement necessary functionality from a technical specification such as UML.
• Work directly with customers, users, and management to help determine and solve the customer needs in the development of future versions of project objectives.

Required Qualifications Experience:
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred
• High level of proficiency with Java, SOAP and REST, AXIS, XML. (5+ years)
• Hands-on experience in full software development cycle. (5+ years)
• Experience interfacing with external customer
• Experience with Ant build/deployment scripting is a plus.
• Experience with OGC specifications a plus, such as WMS, WCS, and OpenSearch
• Experience with remote sensing data, technologies a plus
• Experience with Perl or PHP a plus
• Solid grasp of relational database systems such as Postgres, configuring Apache/Tomcat
• Experience with source control tools such as Subversion or CVS
• Experience conducting testing w/ external user community
• Professional skills: ability to work independently and with a team.
• Ability to understand and master new technologies quickly.
• Ability to quickly understand and solve unique and undocumented programming problems.
• Strong desire to learn new technologies
• Must be energetic and self-starting

Special Conditions:
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident

For more information and to apply, visit the INNOVIM website.

2 comments:

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baster said...

Looks like Goddard has developed more instruments for planetary exploration than any other organization, among them scientific instruments sent to every planet in the Solar System research papers buy