Senior Software Engineer, Analytic Services Lead

Parsons is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead Analytic Services for a large-scale, globally distributed mission platform. In this role, you will take ownership of analytics service design and delivery, ensuring performance and operational evolution across real-time workflows and strict latency expectations.

Role Overview

You will lead analytics microservices and analytics/search architecture using Elasticsearch and supporting tooling. The scope includes defining how data is ingested, indexed, queried, and visualized to support both operational telemetry and user-facing analytics experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the analytics services portfolio, covering search, aggregations, event rollups, telemetry analytics, and user-facing visualization services
• Lead the design and delivery of Java-based analytics microservices and the ingestion, indexing, and reporting workflows that support them
• Define indexing, sharding, retention, and query strategies across operational telemetry and business-facing analytics workloads
• Tune and optimize queries and service interactions to meet strict performance and latency needs in real-time mission workflows
• Ensure analytics microservices are scalable, observable, and reliable across globally distributed deployments

Required Qualifications

• TS/SCI minimum clearance required
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Systems (or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree)
• 15+ years of software, data platform, search, or analytics engineering experience, including 4+ years owning a major technical service domain
• Strong hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana/Grafana, and Java-based microservices
• Proven ownership of analytics/search architecture across indexing, query design, aggregation patterns, and UI visualization
• Strong troubleshooting skills across ingestion, indexing, query performance, UI layers, and distributed systems

Preferred / Desired Skills

• Experience with Vue.js 3 (or similar frameworks) for analytics dashboards
• Experience building analytics or observability solutions in distributed microservices environments
• Experience with telemetry pipelines, distributed tracing, or APM-driven analysis
• Experience optimizing Elasticsearch clusters for mixed workloads (user analytics and operational telemetry)
• Experience integrating event pipelines or stream processors into analytics workflows

Technologies

• Elasticsearch
• Logstash
• Kibana
• Grafana
• Java
• Vue.js 3

Location and Compensation

• Location: Virginia (onsite)
• Salary range: USD 148,300 - 266,900 per year

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision
• Paid time off
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 401(k)
• Life insurance
• Flexible work schedules
• Holidays
• Financial Wellness
• Work Life Harmony
• Career Development
• Veteran Support
• Mind & Body
• Health

Security Clearance

An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.