MSS Developer - Fort Meade
Agile Defense20 days ago
Fort Meade, MD, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$135k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain operator-facing dashboards, applications, decision surfaces, self-service capabilities, and automated workflows.
- Develop data pipelines, ontology, access controls, data models, and integrations with external data sources on MSS and the Palantir stack.
- Ensure AI/AIP workflows use well-modeled data foundations and surface model outputs in operationally useful ways.
- Create data visualizations, interactive analytical tools, alerting and monitoring systems, KPIs, and success metrics.
- Optimize queries, caching, aggregation, dashboard performance, scalability, and reporting reliability.
- Provide day-to-day operator support and escalate complex platform issues to senior engineers.
- Document data sources, metric definitions, and analytical methodologies while contributing reusable ontology patterns, dashboard templates, and integration recipes.
- Support validation of the FDE&T model and remain current with MSS and Palantir technologies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a quantitative discipline, or extensive Palantir experience as a substitute.
- At least 4 years of software or data engineering experience, with data analysis or data science experience considered.
- At least 1.5 years of hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry, Gotham, AIP, or MSS.
- Experience building dashboards, applications, or pipelines for operational end users.
- Working proficiency in ontology design and pipeline authoring using PySpark, Code Repositories, or Pipeline Builder.
- Active U.S. government security clearance; candidates must be U.S. citizens and possess at least an active Secret clearance.
- Ability to work onsite in a SCIF.
- Preferred qualifications include Palantir FDE/FDSE or comparable customer-embedded experience, MSS experience, AIP agent or large language model workflow exposure, familiarity with DoD data environments and classified networks, Combatant Command support, and Python, SQL, JavaScript, and TypeScript skills.
Benefits
- Onsite work at Fort Meade, Maryland, in a SCIF.
- Requires U.S. citizenship and an active Secret clearance, with potential requirements for TS/SCI clearance depending on project assignment.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Agile Defense
Agile Defense provides IT services and cybersecurity solutions for U.S. defense and federal civilian agencies, including digital transformation, systems integration, C4ISR support, data analytics, and cloud. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, the privately held company is owned by Enlightenment Capital and operates across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Its work centers on securing sensitive missions and modernizing government technology environments through managed services and mission-focused engineering.