Software Developer - Full Stack (Systems Software) with Security Clearance

About Us

We offer advanced services in data science, data engineering, software engineering, AI solutions, cybersecurity, staff augmentation, and IT program management. Passionate Integrity, Driven by Excellence

Ardent Principles offers a competitive salary range and a comprehensive, industry‑leading benefits package designed to support long‑term stability and employee well‑being. We provide more than a position—we offer a workplace committed to excellence, integrity, and mission‑focused impact. Our mission is to act as a bridge between satisfied clients and fulfilled employees, ensuring that your job and well‑being are our top priorities because your satisfaction leads to the success of our clients.

Join us as we continue building the future of secure, high‑impact solutions.

Role

We are looking for a Software Developer with Full Stack experience to join a high-performing, collaborative group tackling some of the most complex data engineering and application development challenges in the intelligence community. Our team works across the full stack — data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, web applications, and analytics tools — and every member plays a critical role.

Key Responsibilities

In this challenging yet rewarding role, you are an integral part of what brings our Company's mission to life. You must have the following required skills, certifications and demonstrated experience in and/or with:

• Recent professional experience engaging directly with data-related issues, including data quality and data curation activities.
• Collaboration tools and technologies such as Confluence, wikis, or similar.
• Ensuring data provenance, pedigree, and lineage for data sharing rules.
• Describing and characterizing datasets for knowledge management purposes.
• Professional experience with cloud services and tools, such as Databricks and EMR.
• Understanding of SQL database structures and mapping them between different SQL databases.
• Professional experience working with Nifi, and and Extract-Transform-Load processes.
• Creating operating system level scripts to perform ETL operations on SQL databases.
• Professional experience with version control systems, preferably Git.
• Testing the development of software solutions for the extraction, transacting, and loading of data using the most efficient languages for the task, e.g. Nifi, Python, and SQL.
• Professional experience in the development, customization, and use of developing applications for intelligence analysis.
• Professional experience using Python, JavaScript, and Postgre SQL stack.
• CSS, HTML, or web based development.
• Using Git for versioning.
• Developing algorithms to support graph theory-based methods.
• Professional experience using containerization such as Docker or developing and deploying containerized applications and databases.
• Working user-centered design principles and practices, web standards, typography and color, and web usability standards.
• Communicating technical issues in clear written and oral formats.
• Tracking projects, plans, and action items through completion.
• Translating business needs to skilled technology officers for future system requirement development.
• Professional experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or closely related discipline.

Highly Desired Qualifications

Other skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not mandatory to perform the work, include:

• On-the-job experience with datasets and data collections.
• Familiarity with data environment and analytic workflow processes.
• Supporting project managers, subject matter experts, and the client by planning projects, developing contingencies, and producing schedules.
• Strong coordination and collaboration skills with ability to work successfully across organizational boundaries.
• Customer service including working and communicating across various levels (peers, technical and mission partners,…