Senior Software Engineer, Analytic Services Lead

Parsons • Reston, VA

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About The Position

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Software Engineer, Analytic Services Lead to join our team! In this role you will own the design, delivery, performance, and operational evolution of the analytics services domain for a large-scale, globally distributed mission platform.

Requirements

• TS/SCI minimum clearance required.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Systems (or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree)
• 15+ years of software, data platform, search, or analytics engineering experience, including 4+ years owning a major technical service domain
• Strong hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana/Grafana, and Java-based microservices
• Proven ownership of analytics/search architecture across indexing, query design, aggregation patterns, and UI visualization
• Strong troubleshooting skills across ingestion, indexing, query performance, UI layers, and distributed systems
• An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Vue.js 3 or similar frameworks for analytics dashboards
• Experience building analytics or observability solutions in distributed microservices environments
• Experience with telemetry pipelines, distributed tracing, or APM-driven analysis
• Experience optimizing Elasticsearch clusters for mixed workloads (user analytics + operational telemetry)
• Experience integrating event pipelines or stream processors into analytics workflows

Responsibilities

• Owning the analytics services portfolio, including search, aggregations, event rollups, telemetry analytics, and user-facing visualization services
• Leading the design and delivery of Java-based analytics microservices and supporting ingestion, indexing, and reporting workflows
• Defining indexing, sharding, retention, and query strategies across operational telemetry and business-facing analytics workloads
• Tuning and optimizing queries and service interactions to meet strict performance and latency requirements in real-time mission workflows
• Ensuring analytics microservices remain scalable, observable, and reliable across globally distributed deployments

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• paid time off
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 401(k)
• life insurance
• flexible work schedules
• holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior