The agency is seeking 2 skilled Senior Java Developers to assist with Java development tasks for the maintenance and evolution of their system. The system currently has a .NET front-end, Java backend (Unix/Linux/AWS), Oracle PL/SQL, ARCGIS. This role is to maintain and enhance the backend including JEE, Tomcat and Spring applications.

The Role
The successful candidate must have the following minimum skills:

• Develop enterprise-grade software using Java and RDB technologies
• Design, create and manage solutions on AWS Cloud
• Design data models, translate to physical data models and implement using a database
• Implement CRUD operations on the database using Java Object-Relational Mapping frameworks
• Produce and maintain detailed design artifacts & technical specifications
• Create and work with RESTful OpenAPI specifications, SOAP WSDLs, XML Schemas
• Develop and maintain DevOps workflows using Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Maven

The Candidate
Mandatory criteria:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in analysis, design, planning, support, documentation, and presentation contexts.
• Ability to work autonomously, especially to ask questions, engage with business and gather requirements
• At least 8 years Java experience, enterprise design patterns, JPA, Hibernate ORM, JEE an advantage, data structures, concurrency.
• Technical skills:
  • Broad experience with internal and external data integrations, e.g., SOAP and REST APIs, OpenAPI/XSD Schemas, XML/JSON, JMS.
  • AWS development (EC2, Lambdas, API Gateway, Beanstalk, S3, SQS, CloudFormation).
  • Unix/Linux, Bash.
  • Maven, Artifact Repositories, Continuous Integration, Unit and System Integration testing.
• Major database experience, including data modelling, stored procedures. Oracle preferred.
• Willingness to be 24×7 on-call. Historically calls escalated to the dev team between 10pm and 6am are rare, one per year.

Desirable criteria:

• Reactive programming.
• Spring/SpringBoot.
• Work as a member of an integrated Agile team comprising technical and non-technical personnel
• Strong commitment to software engineering processes and a proven ability to develop robust and maintainable software given complex requirements.

What the role offers:

• Up to $2000/day contracting rate for the right candidate
• A fun, collaborative and productive team.

Successful applicants will be working with leading-edge hardware and ML technologies, demonstrating the art of the possible and working toward bringing ML based technology into the agency’s domain in support of their mission and capabilities.

The Machine Learning Engineers will be required to work as part of an integrated team spanning ICT professionals and engineers, researchers, operators and analysts. They will work as part of a team designing and developing machine learning systems, implementing appropriate ML algorithms, conducting experiments and demonstrating outcomes and ML based opportunities to the agency’s stakeholders. They will be working with data sets to create models, perform statistical analysis, to train and retrain systems to optimise performance with a goal to build efficient self-learning applications and contribute to the agency’s advancements in artificial intelligence.

The Role
The Machine Learning Engineers will work in the design and development of the agency’s focused machine learning and deep learning systems, running machine learning tests and experiments while developing and implementing appropriate ML algorithms. This will encompass:

• study and transformation of data science prototypes;
• design of machine learning systems;
• development of machine learning applications according to requirements;
• selection of appropriate datasets and data representation methods;
• performance of statistical analysis and fine-tuning using test results;
• executing train and retrain systems as necessary;
• extend existing internal ML libraries and frameworks.

They must be willing and able to support the agency in activities relating to its operational mandate and objectives.

Essential Criteria
Mandatory:

• Experience in software development & machine learning.
• Experience in the use of machine learning methods on multi-GPU platforms.
• Extensive Linux knowledge.
• Ability to communicate effectively and tailor presentation style and messaging to be relevant to a range of audience level of knowledge, skills and experience.
• Sound interpersonal skills including the ability to work as a productive member of a team and communicate effectively with colleagues and clients across multiple organisational levels.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Respond strongly and positively to challenging work and deadlines.

Highly Desirable:

• Experience in the use and development of machine learning methods at scale within standalone or multi-GPU and multi-node configurations.
• Experience in MLOps and ModelOps software and associated engineering practices.
• Experience with best practice development methodologies and practices such as Agile, DevOps, and Configuration-As-Code.
• Understanding of data structures, data modeling and software architecture.
• Knowledge of math, probability, statistics and algorithms as applicable to the ML context.
• Ability to write code in Python, Java or R.
• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks (like Keras or PyTorch) and libraries (like scikitlearn).
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills. 

Desirable:

• Previous experience within the Defence environment.
• Familiarity with Defence IT security policies and concepts.

What the role offers:

• Up to $2000/day contracting rate for the right candidate
• A fun, collaborative and productive team.

• 1-2 years Previous experience in creating SharePoint modern webpages and a sound technical understanding of the SharePoint web application.
• Demonstrated experience following documented processes to provide efficient
  outcomes and identify opportunities to improve and add value
• Demonstrated experience contributing to the effectiveness and overall success of the team by effectively managing personal workloads, handling competing priorities, and working autonomously

Desirable Criteria:

• SharePoint Site collection or tenant administration experience
• DevOps Software development application experience
• Experience with Microsoft Visio application and Adobe Acrobat software package

What the role offers:

• Competitive contracting rate for the right candidate
• A fun, collaborative and productive team.