This individual will be preparing quality documentation and reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends including failed processes, stability studies, recalls, corrective actions, and re-validations.

This individual will validate quality processes by establishing product specifications and quality attributes; measuring production; documenting evidence; determining operational and performance qualification; writing and updating quality assurances procedures. The QA is responsible for the design, pilot, and implementation of the software quality assurance review processes. The QA will work with the Application Teams during pre and post assessment periods. For each phase end review the QA is responsible to plan, schedule, execute, and document findings of the review. QA's must have an detailed understanding of processes which support the software development lifecycle.

The candidate will be supporting The New Jersey Department of Transportation’s Applications Team.

The ew Jersey Department of Transportation is requesting the services of a Senior Architect 2 to function as the technical expert assisting the Smart Newark team developing the SCOS (Smart Newark Operating System). The selected candidate will work directly with the SCOS team in researching and developing the computer applications that will fulfill Smart Newark's mission while providing the structure for future AVCV developments across the state.

This position will function as a highly skilled SAR2 with specific responsibilities that include:

• Operate effectively as a big data SME with knowledge of the latest tools, applications and cloud infrastructures necessary to implement a powerful open source system.
• Operate as technical expert with intimate knowledge regarding all components that comprise the entire solution set.
• Serve as the SME on the host of applications and environments required to serve the users.
• Operate as SME in the implementation of Open Source Big data solutions from infrastructure to applications.
• Assist with developing the delivery Epics, Stories and Tasks that will comprise the solution set for BI.
• Operate as the cross technology and platform SME.
• Act as Open Source advocate and practitioner.
• Assist in the execution of the process operating as Agile evangelist and master.
• Mentor teams involved in developing highly technical solutions and promote culture that values input from all team members.
• Promote continuous learning and deliver value to the customer.
• Assist in the development of standards, procedures and operating systems applications.
• Assist with revision of existing solutions to increase operating efficiency or adapt to new requirements.
• Prepare records and reports.

Experience:

• Demonstrated end to end big data environment build leadership and architecture development.
• Creative thinker with experience in implementing Open Source.
• Student of advanced Open Source BI tools, having implemented at least three BI applications end to end. Preference to Tableau, Pentaho, Pentaho, BIRT, JasperReport, SpagoBI, KNIME, ReportServer, Bitnami ReportServer Stack.
• Expert knowledge with a track record of solution delivery using various data integration solutions in situations requiring real time (synchronous and asynchronous) messaging, Publish/Subscribe models, Microservices patterns, Middleware, and other related methodologies in a multi-user, multi-platform, multi-tier environment.
• Strong communication/leadership skills.
• Strong influence, collaboration and negotiation experience.
• Ability to collaborate with supporting resources across business and/or functional lines.
• Ability to mentor teams involved in developing highly technical solutions and value input from all team members.
• Have excellent oral and written skills/possess strong meeting and work session facilitation skills.
• Act as the escalation point for high priority support issues.
• Have the ability to work independently and as part of a team, the ability to manage time and resources to meet assigned deadlines.
• Have excellent organizational skills, proven analytical, planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills.

Skills:

4 year college degree in computer science or related field with advanced study preferred.

• 5 years' experience in Hadoop HDFS Build and administration, considered an expert in this skillset.
• 3 yrs. experience in working with, installing and setting up HBase,MongoDB, Maven, DocumentDB, Amazon DynamoDB, BigTable, Cassandra, or Druid.
• 3 yrs. experience working daily within an Agile team.
• 7 yrs. in Software development as a developer.
• 5 yrs. experience in IT infrastructure deployment.
• 3 yrs. experience in Open Source software deployment.
• 3 yrs. experience in Web systems and application deployment.
• 2 yrs. experience in Requirements Gathering and Use Case development.
• 3 yrs. experience in either Java, considered a journeyman in this language.
• 3 yrs. experience delivering inside of a full TDD, CI, DevOps environment within an Agile framework.
• 2 yrs. experience working within a paired programming environment.

• Experience in developing/maintaining Azure cloud native IT systems -- 2 years.
• Experience in migrating existing .NET application to Azure -- 2 years
• Experience in Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery in Azure -- 2 years
• Azure Technologies (e.g. Azure function, Azure Batch/Web Jobs) -- 2 years
• VSTS Online -- 1 year

Other minimally required technical skills:

• Experience in developing/maintaining IT systems using Microsoft .NET 2.0 and above (C# preferred) -- 10 years
• Experience in Relational database technologies (MS SQL (preferred) or Oracle) -- 10 years
• Experience in architecting IT systems using Microsoft .NET 2.0 and above (C# preferred) – 8 years
• Experience in leading teams through multiple stages of software development (from the system analysis to deployment) – 5 years
• Experience in Test Driven Development and test automation -- 5 years
• Experience in Agile Development Methodologies using TFS -- 5 years
• Angular 2.0 or above with TypeScript, Bootstrap, Jasmine, Karma (or other Angular testing framework) -- 2 years
• Experience with other web UI development tools/languages (JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, MVC) -- 5 years
• .NET CORE 1.0/2.0 using C# -- 1 year
• Mocking framework (MoQ or equivalent) -- 5 years
• Dependency injection (Autofac or equivalent) -- 5 years
• ORM Tools (Entity Framework (preferred) or equivalent) -- 3 years

Other preferred technical skills:

• Reporting using Power BI / MS Report -- 2 years
• ETL using SSIS (or equivalent) -- 2 years
• MS Azure Data Factory -- 2 years
• Other database technology (noSQL/Cosmos DB/MongoDB) -- 2 years

Key skills will be a strong technology and programming background/aptitude with Java, Python, Scala, statistical programming, TensorFlow and exposure to machine learning / AI technologies.

Required skills:

• Advance degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Computational Statistics, Operations Research, Machine Learning or related technical fields.
• Hands on experience developing supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms (regression, decision trees/random forest, neural networks, feature selection/reduction, clustering, parameter tuning, etc.), using relevant programming languages (Python, PySpark, Scala, Java, C++, C#, C, etc.), mathematical/statistical/ML languages and platforms (R, H2O.ai, Octave, Matlab, Weka, SAS, etc.) and big data tools and languages (Spark, MapReduce, SQL, Hive, etc.).
• Advanced knowledge in model evaluation, tuning and performance, operationalization and scalability of scientific techniques and establishing decision strategies. Experience in evaluating and making decisions around the use of new or existing tools for a project.
• Proven track record of strong verbal/written communication and presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
• Experience in projects involving large scale-multi dimensional databases, complex business infrastructure, and cross-functional teams. Three to five successfully launched ML projects.
• 5+ years of relevant employment experience.

Required skills:

• Experience with TensorFlow, Keras, Theano, CUDA, and/or DSSTNE.
• Experience with advanced ML techniques (RNN, CNN, LSTM, GRU, Genetic Algorithms, Reinforcement Learning, etc.).
• Experience with voice recognition, natural language processing, and computer vision.
• Experience building and delivering complex systems that leverage various machine learning algorithms or technologies that integrate well with other organization-wide systems and can scale effectively.
• Experience in developing and/or launching ML algorithms/frameworks using cloud infrastructure. Previous experience in digital-native organizations (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) and/or the Financial Services industry.

Client is currently building the platform to support production systems in both the federal and commercial sectors. They have been working on use cases involving physical supply chain anti-counterfeit, insider threat mitigation, secure workflow management and configuration management.

Overview:

Requires in depth knowledge of focus area technologies. Needs to be skilled in specific areas of development and languages, depending on staffing requirements from Team Leads.

Language Requirements: Proven Experience Java Development practices and execution in production systems.

Proven Experience of:

• Web Services
• PKI
• Rules Engine Development
• RDB and NoSQL database platforms
• Basic security practices and execution
• Basic IdAM principles and practices
• Provisioning Services Development
• Active Directory Integrations
• Smart Card Integrations
• OIM Integrations

Knowledge and understanding of:

• Cloud Native Platforms such as Pivotal
• XML Based architectures such as SAML, XACML, XSD Creation, WSDLs
• AWS Development (AMI, EC2, etc.)
• Azure Development
• SDK Development