Senior Software Engineer (Analytics Services)

Parsons Corporation•Reston, VA

About The Position

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Software Engineer to join our team focused on Analytic Services! 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. You will be responsible for a portfolio of Java-based microservices and supporting analytics/search infrastructure built around Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, and Vue.js 3 based user interfaces. This role requires someone who can combine search and aggregation architecture, query performance engineering, telemetry analytics, user-facing analytics design, and operational ownership.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field. 4 Additional years of experience can substitute for a degree.
10+ years of software engineering, data platform engineering, search engineering, or analytics platform experience, including 4+ years leading a major technical service area or team.
Strong experience building and operating analytics or search services in production
Strong hands-on experience with: Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana and/or Grafana Java-based backend services / microservices
Demonstrated ownership of a technical analytics domain from architecture through operations
Experience leading engineering teams or multi-team delivery for analytics/search platforms
Strong troubleshooting skills across ingestion, indexing, query, UI, and platform layers
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain performance, scale, and tradeoff decisions clearly
Proven experience with analytics patterns such as: indexed query optimization field aggregations and composite aggregations nested/document-based aggregations rollups and summary generation caching strategies for query performance
Experience tuning analytics and search services for strict latency and SLA-driven workflows
Experience designing analytics services that serve both: user-facing business/mission use cases internal operational telemetry and APM use cases
Strong understanding of data ingestion, indexing, retention, and search relevance/performance tradeoffs
Experience designing role-based analytics access patterns and user-facing analytics/reporting services
TS/SCI minimum clearance required.
Domestic and/or international project travel may be required.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Data Engineering, Computer Science, Analytics, or related field
Experience with Vue.js 3 or similar frameworks for analytics dashboards and role-based user interfaces
Experience building analytics and observability solutions in distributed microservices environments
Experience with telemetry pipelines for logs, events, and metrics at large scale
Familiarity with APM concepts, distributed tracing, and service health correlation
Experience with Grafana + ELK coexisting in the same observability/analytics ecosystem
Experience with real-time or near-real-time event analysis in mission or operational systems
Familiarity with RabbitMQ, event pipelines, or stream processing supporting analytics workloads
Experience with multilingual analytics interfaces or region-specific reporting requirements
Experience with capacity planning and cost/performance tuning for analytics clusters
Experience optimizing Elasticsearch clusters for mixed workloads (user queries + operational telemetry)
Experience supporting globally distributed platforms with variable network conditions and remote operational support models
Experience with RBAC and multi-tenant analytics access models
Experience building reusable reporting and dashboard frameworks for multiple user communities

Responsibilities

Own the analytics services portfolio for a globally distributed software platform, including: user-facing analytics services search and aggregate query services event roll-up and nested aggregation services telemetry analytics and APM-related services analytics-facing administrative and visualization interfaces
Lead the design and delivery of Java-based microservices supporting analytics, search, aggregation, and reporting workflows
Own analytics architecture across three primary query/analysis patterns: regular queries on cached/indexed data composite aggregations across multiple fields returning aggregated results nested aggregations used for event rollups, hierarchy-based summaries, and other advanced analytical needs
Ensure that analytics services support both: business/mission-facing analytics and reporting operational telemetry analysis across services, infrastructure, and networking
Tune and optimize analytic queries and service interactions to meet strict performance and latency requirements, especially where analytics are embedded in real-time transaction workflows
Lead the design and operation of analytics services built on: Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana Grafana Vue.js 3 based user interfaces
Define indexing, sharding, retention, and query strategy for both operational and user-facing analytics workloads
Establish data models and service contracts that support analytics consistency across distributed deployments
Work closely with data, platform, and software engineering teams to ensure high-quality ingestion pipelines and well-structured searchable data
Own the service-level health, scalability, and observability of analytics microservices
Guide implementation of dashboards, visualizations, role-specific analytics views, and reporting capabilities for different user groups
Partner with operations and engineering teams to use telemetry and APM data to improve system reliability, identify bottlenecks, and support root cause analysis
Lead major incident analysis where analytics or observability performance impacts mission or platform operations