MSS Developer - Falls Church
Agile Defense20 days ago
Falls Church, VA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$135k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain operator-facing dashboards, applications, decision surfaces, and self-service analytical capabilities.
- Develop automated workflows, data pipelines, ontology, access controls, and external data integrations on MSS and the Palantir stack.
- Create data visualizations, interactive exploration tools, alerting systems, monitoring systems, KPIs, and mission-performance metrics.
- Optimize data models, queries, caching, aggregation, scalability, and dashboard/application performance.
- Provide operator support, document data sources and analytical methods, contribute reusable platform content, and support validation for future command extensions.
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 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 able to obtain and maintain higher-level clearances when required.
- Preferred qualifications include Palantir FDE/FDSE or comparable customer-embedded experience, MSS/AIP agent or large language model workflow exposure, DoD data-environment and classified-network familiarity, Combatant Command support, and Python, SQL, JavaScript, or TypeScript skills.
Benefits
- Onsite work in a SCIF in Falls Church, Virginia.
- Requires U.S. citizenship and an active Secret clearance, with potential requirements for TS/SCI or higher clearances.
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.