Forensic Toolkit Lead Developer (Software Engineer SME)

Clearance Required:

• Active Top secret or higher

Key Responsibilities

• Technical experience in software development with a specialization in digital forensics and forensic tool development.
• Expert knowledge of forensic analysis techniques, file systems, data recovery, and evidence handling best practices.
• Demonstrated experience in leading the design and architecture of complex forensic software solutions.
• Experience addressing the challenges associated with processing and analyzing petabytes of digital evidence from various sources.
• Proficiency in .Net programming languages as well as thin client front-end technologies.
• Familiarity with forensic standards and protocols, and an ability to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements for digital evidence handling.
• Extensive experience delivering forensic software deployed in the commercial cloud and capable of distributed processing.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing projects that span software development, cybersecurity, and IT infrastructure.
• Experienced strategic planner, with a demonstrated ability to set a vision for a forensic toolkit's development and ensure alignment with organizational mission and goals.
• Strong communication skills; must be able to articulate complex technical issues to a non-technical audience, including law enforcement officers, analysts, and government officials.
• Relevant certifications related to technical architecture, software development, or forensics preferred.

Job Description/ Roles-Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert for forensic tool portions of the MXU code base and provide senior level design guidance while leading a team of developers to implement new features and resolve software issues.
• Lead the design, development and analysis of customer operational and application systems;
• Lead the maintenance efforts of MXU, including system enhancements, bug fixes, and security enhancements;
• Integrate bug fixes, security enhancements and new capabilities as approved by the government.
• Deliver forensic tool builds using agile processes to deliver incremental builds based upon agreed upon MXU requirements
• Develop mechanism to seamlessly share results with other MXU applications using common databases, schemas and object storage methods.
• Develop intuited interfaces to exploit and discover relationships between multiple collections of data stored across multiple databases.
• Establish and maintain an Application Programming Interface to enforce backwards compatibility with original source and streamline development and integration of new functional modules.
• Assess and ensure software performance and reliability for all software modules and components including analytical and databases processes.
• Integrate new data types and analytic tools, techniques, and methodologies for seized media.
• Deploy and maintain software and hardware within customer environments.
• Deploy/maintain forensic tool deployments within all MXU designated development and operational environments, including ensuring the tool remains consistent with all policies, procedures, and requirements.