Senior Engineer - Financial Systems Modernization

Senior Engineer - Financial Systems Modernization
Washington, DC 20420

Security Clearance Requirement: U.S. Citizen with Public Trust or ability to obtain Public Trust

Location Note: REMOTE
This is a remote position (even after COVID-19). Candidates must be located in the DC Metro Area for occasional on-site meetings.
Remote work environment should be conducive to making phone calls, attending teleconferences, and communicating with external team members as part of the everyday job duties. 

We are recruiting for a Senior Systems Engineer to provide Technical SME support for the Department of Veteran Affairs’ effort to modernize legacy financial systems. Qualified candidates will have prior experience supporting a federal government enterprise in a cloud environment. Prior experience with interfaces, data cleansing and/or data conversion development is preferred.

Roles and responsibilities include:

• Working with analysts and users to define existing or new interface and/or data cleanse and conversion requirements

• Collaborating with functional team and designing, constructing, and maintaining software programs in one or more of the following areas:

  • Web service interfaces using Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat Fuse technologies;

  • Data cleanse scripts or programs to identify and manage data consistency and quality issues in legacy systems via SQL, excel, or other data comparison or analysis tool; or

  • Data conversion scripts and routines to migrate legacy data to the Oracle-based Momentum ERP application, supporting complex business logic and utilizing database performance optimization techniques

• Developing technical documents, including software implementation guides and designing documentation including Interface Control Documents (ICD’s)

• Working with analysts to ensure software components are properly documented for system users

• Performing unit testing and providing support to functional analysts during system testing

• Managing the installation of software components in the acceptance testing and production environments

• Implementing quality assurance standards and processes for validation and verification efforts

• Implementing software development best practices

• Seeking out and implementing process improvement initiatives

Requirements include:

• U.S. Citizen

• Current Public Trust or ability to obtain Public Trust

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline

• 12 years of systems engineering experience

• Understanding of relational concepts and proficiency with coding and tuning SQL in an Oracle or SQL Server database context

• Experience with DevOps or DevSecOps practices and automated testing tools

• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and written and oral communication skills

• Ability to work both independently and with a team to solve problems

• Ability to learn quickly and put new skills to use

• Ability to efficiently and effectively handle multiple and shifting priorities while meeting deadlines, with flexibility to put in the hours needed to meet tight deadlines

Preferred experience includes:

• Knowledge of financial/acquisitions systems implementations is preferred
• Experience implementing Agile methodologies is preferred
• Technical experience working Momentum Financials and the Momentum database preferred
• Understanding of Momentum tables and relationships and the technical components used to convert from legacy systems to Momentum, specifically approaches to data mapping, PL/SQL, Momentum FormImport and GSOffline processes is preferred
• Experience working with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat Fuse is preferred
• Experience implementing system integrations within an Enterprise Service Bus, including management of web-service and file-based interactions with legacy systems is preferred
• Web Services development experience using SOAP, XML, WSDL, WS-Security, and/or JSON is preferred
• Experience developing and deploying services in Red Hat OpenShift or other container platforms is preferred
• Development experience with Java, Python, or other modern programming language is preferred
• Expertise in developing interfaces and/or executing large-scale data conversions is preferred
• Strong understanding of data reconciliation or migration across a variety of data platforms, formats and technologies is preferred
• Experience with Microsoft or Azure Data services, such as Power BI, Azure SQL, SSAS, Synapse, or Azure Data Factory is preferred
• Experience with Data Analytics or Data Cleansing tools and services is preferred
• SharePoint development experience is preferred