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Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Sr. Principal SW Development Analyst (React.js Developer - Frontend) to support work at the Social Security Administration in Woodlawn, MD.

Roles & Responsibilities include:

• Provide development support to the government client and enable design, development, and implementation for a Disability System.
• Participate in the full life cycle of an agile project; design and develop user interfaces/applications and conduct testing.
• Understands the business problem statement, user scenarios, and technical constraints.
• Plan for and conduct implementation activities.
• Participate in planning, retrospectives, demos and daily stand-ups.
• Continuously develops knowledge and skills on pertinent systems.
• Perform thorough unit and functional testing of the code to ensure high quality bug free code.
• Provide weekly and monthly status to the management.
• Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences, as well as interface with the customer on a daily basis.
• Become knowledgeable on the HIPAA policies and procedures for the program and ensure awareness of HIPAA breach process. Understand your role in HIPAA compliance and be able to execute that role in an effective manner.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 9 years of relative experience, OR Master's degree and 7 years of relative experience, OR PhD and 4 years of relative experience. 13 years of related experience in an IT field is required in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum of 2.5 year experience using React.js, Express with a SQL database (e.g. such as MySQL or PostgreSQL).
• Minimum of 3 year of JavaScript front-end development experience
• Minimum of 1 year of experience in one of the following technologies: NGINX or Redis
• Minimum of 6 months experience in Agile/Scrum methodology and tools (e.g. such as Rally, JIRA, or Version One)
• Minimum of 1 year Proficient in With Serialization Types Extensible Markup Language (XML) & JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
• Must be or US Permanent Resident ( holder)
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a US Public Trust clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior Social Security Administration (SSA) experience
• Experience with relational database systems including PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and DB2; and writing complex SQL queries
• Experience with popular Node.js web frameworks and/or utility libraries such as:
  • Express, Hapi, Underscore/Lodash, Async, Bluebird, and Grunt
• Strong proficiency working with database systems such as MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, and/or PostgreSQL
• Knowledge of HTTP protocol
• Experience in:
  • Building RESTful APIs
  • React.js frameworks (e.g. MOBX or FLUX)
  • ECMAScript 6
  • Designing and developing distributed systems
  • Microservices and respective architecture design principles and scalability best practices
  • Creating API design/technical documentation (Raml, swagger)
  • Using debugging and observability tools for live systems dtrace, strace dtruss
  • Messaging protocols such as AMQP (Rabbitmq, Kafka, Nats

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.