Mid-Level Forward Deployed Engineer
Green Key ResourcesAbout the role
Mid-Level Forward Deployed Engineer
📍Arlington, VA - Onsite
***Must Have Active Secret Clearance***
The Role
As a Mid-Level Forward Deployed Engineer, you will contribute directly to the development and deployment of mission-critical software capabilities supporting government customers. You'll build analytical applications, dashboards, data workflows, and AI-enabled solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Provide embedded engineering support within a mission-focused software environment, partnering with operational users and senior engineers to deliver capabilities aligned with customer needs.
Design and maintain data integration pipelines, data models, and semantic data structures to enable consistent interpretation and analysis across the platform.
Develop applications, dashboards, workflows, and AI-enabled capabilities using modern low-code and custom development frameworks.
Participate in requirements gathering, solution design, and technical planning by translating user needs into well-defined engineering tasks.
Contribute to production readiness by supporting CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment processes, and release management.
Support ongoing platform sustainment through troubleshooting, defect resolution, and continuous enhancement of deployed capabilities.
Produce technical documentation, including system configurations, implementation guides, and operational runbooks.
Participate in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and stakeholder demonstrations.
Perform testing and validation to ensure applications, workflows, and data products meet functional and quality requirements.
Identify technical risks and integration challenges early while collaborating with teammates to develop effective solutions.
Qualifications
Experience building data-intensive applications, analytics platforms, or enterprise software solutions.
3+ years of software engineering experience.
Proficiency with Python, TypeScript, Java, or similar programming languages.
Experience developing data pipelines, ETL processes, APIs, or cloud-native applications.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern software delivery practices.
Experience supporting government, defense, or other highly regulated environments is preferred.
Ability to independently develop, test, and deploy production-quality software.
Comfortable working in small, fast-paced, cross-functional engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Provide embedded engineering support within a mission-focused software environment.
- Design and maintain data integration pipelines, data models, and semantic data structures.
- Develop applications, dashboards, workflows, and AI-enabled capabilities.
- Participate in requirements gathering, solution design, and technical planning.
- Contribute to production readiness by supporting CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
- Support ongoing platform sustainment through troubleshooting and defect resolution.
- Produce technical documentation, including system configurations and operational runbooks.
- Participate in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning and daily standups.
Qualifications
- Experience building data-intensive applications or enterprise software solutions.
- 3+ years of software engineering experience.
- Proficiency with Python, TypeScript, Java, or similar programming languages.
- Experience developing data pipelines, ETL processes, APIs, or cloud-native applications.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience supporting government or highly regulated environments is preferred.
- Ability to independently develop, test, and deploy production-quality software.
- Comfortable working in small, fast-paced, cross-functional engineering teams.
Skills mentioned
About Green Key Resources
Green Key Resources cares deeply about developing personal, lasting relationships with our clients. Our recruitment team consists of seasoned, passionate professionals who leverage intricate industry knowledge and an incredible network to find talented people and align them with the right career. People, not just candidates. Careers, not just jobs. We look at recruitment as a philosophy, and our recruiters are dedicated to a holistic approach in which we first consider the big picture and then go on to match skills, goals, dreams, corporate culture, and more. Our business, and yours, is changing and growing every day. That’s why we’re constantly investing in the newest analytical tools available. New, innovative departments like our in-house Research & Development team is available to provide customized solutions for both career seekers and companies. As the recruiting world begins to rely more and more on technology to find and match talent, we will always remain loyal to the power of the human touch - never underestimating how far it can take both our candidates and clients.