JOBS VA, MD, DC -Hire or Contract federal funded projects.

Washington, DC area. The developers will work in an Agile Scrum team environment on full lifecycle projects. The systems environment is quickly evolving and cutting edge. The development environment leverages technology from the open source Hydra project, as well as Solr/Lucene, Python and JavaScript. Java expertise and working in a Linux environment are desirable. The developers will be involved in evaluating user requests, analyzing requirements, developing technical specifications, performing feasibility analysis, developing analytic applications and data management solutions and assisting users to solve operational problems. The developers should be experts in GUI development and need to be able to perform with minimal supervision. Requirements Gathering and Analysis Application Design Application Prototyping and Development Perform demos of application At least 2 years of experience developing applications with Ruby on Rails (experience must be recent!) Rails development for more than one customer Experience working in a full systems development life cycle projects Demonstrated experience working independently to deliver web applications Ability to drive solutions to problems by identifying and evaluating alternatives Excellent communication skills Ability to set up, configure, and deploy Java applications. Experience working in a Red Hat Linux environment (preferably RHEL 6) Training or certifications in Hadoop is a plus Strong data analysis skills Strong SQL skills Knowledge of big data technologies, including Hadoop and NoSQL databases Working knowledge of jQuery, HTML and CSS Strong JavaScript background Experience with Python