Organization: Accenture Federal Services
Location: Arlington, VA
Accenture Federal Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture LLP, is a U.S. company with offices in Arlington, Virginia. Accenture's federal business has served every cabinet-level department and 30 of the largest federal organizations. Accenture Federal Services transforms bold ideas into breakthrough outcomes for clients at defense, intelligence, public safety, civilian and military health organizations.

We believe that great outcomes are everything. It’s what drives us to turn bold ideas into breakthrough solutions. By combining digital technologies with what works across the world’s leading businesses, we use agile approaches to help clients solve their toughest problems fast—the first time. So, you can deliver what matters most.

Count on us to help you embrace new ways of working, building for change and put customers at the core. A wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture, we bring over 30 years of experience serving the federal government, including every cabinet-level department. Our 7,200 dedicated colleagues and change makers work with our clients at the heart of the nation’s priorities in defense, intel, public safety, health and civilian to help you make a difference for the people you employ, serve and protect.

We are helping a Federal Government agency turn complex manual processes into simple Digital experiences for the public. We're looking for talented people with experience in human-centered design, agile, DevOps, public cloud, AI, Analytics, mobile and web application development who are creative, innovative, collaborative and passionate about working with other high performers. This is your opportunity to join a modern Digital team that is developing a new experience to streamline services and change how people interact with Government. Do you want to be a part of a team that defines the future of digital government? We are seeking a Junior Ruby and JavaScript Developer for a position in Arlington, VA to support it's ongoing web application development effort. Using multiple open-source frameworks, an continuous integration environment, with automated continious deployments to the public cloud hosting environment, you’ll join our team of developers building the next-generation of customer engagement systems for federal service agencies.
• Work with product owners and colleagues to interpret feature requests and develop software in iterative design/build/test cycles using an Agile development process for a responsive web application
• Drawing on components from the project’s open-source framework, use JavaScript, React.JS, RESTful web services, and Ruby on Rails to design, build and test software components for citizens and employees
• Develop front-end user interface components using JavaScript, HTML and CSS and back-end APIs to support the front-end application
• Regularly check code into our continuous integration pipeline based on Jenkins to incrementally build our overall system and get immediate feedback on build performance
• Develop and expand unit and integration tests which will be automatically run by the build pipeline for developer feedback using JUnit and other tools like Cucumber, Jmeter, and Selenium

Basic Skills & Qualifications:
• 3+ years of application development experience
• 1 year of experience with JavaScript (e.g. React.js)
• 1 year of experience with HTML
• 1 year of experience with Java
• Experience using and managing change management tools, Git, Subversion, TortoiseSVN, and build server software (Jenkins/Hudson/Bamboo)
• Associates degree OR 5 years of experience
• U.S. citizenship
Preferred Skills & Qualifications:
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 1 year of experience with Ruby on Rails (preferred) CSS/SASS
• Automated Testing
• Amazon Web Services Integration
• Understanding and working experience with Git branching and merging
• Understanding of continuous integration and deployment best practices
• Working experience with code quality inspection tools (e.g., Sonar)
• Working experience with monitoring systems, continuous integration systems, middleware & database components with Chef
• Working knowledge of TDD and automation test scripts
• Prior success deploying to production
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple teams and government organizations
• Understanding of HTTP/S and related protocols
• Experience with other open-source DevOps tools
• Experience with a wide variety of testing tools and techniques, ex. JUnit
• Experience with Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, and User Acceptance Testing phases
• Ability to work in a fast paced, constantly changing Agile environment
• Candidate should have ability to learn new techniques and technologies quickly

An active security clearance or the ability to obtain one may be required for this role.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

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