Janes enables militaries, governments, and defence companies to make critical decisions. Our expert-driven tradecraft, developed over 120 years, combined with human-machine teaming, delivers assured open-source intelligence across military capabilities and order of battle, equipment, events, countries, companies, and markets.
Linking millions of assured data points, Janes data model creates a framework of interconnected open source defence intelligence. This allows our customers to integrate all relevant data and connections into a single intelligence environment to deliver a more complete and accurate answer. Using Janes, our customers can use their scarce resource more effectively, to get to better decisions with higher confidence, more quickly.
Job purpose
The Solutions Engineer is a key role working within the product team to support the integration and optimization of our new Intara interconnected intelligence products into systems to support national security customers.
In addition, you will work on the development of our demonstration implementations and SDK to enable customers and integrators to extract maximum benefit from their access to Janes interconnected intelligence products to support geospatial, data analytics, machine learning, and graph database applications.
You will support critical customer and partner innovation projects for the defense and national security space. Our graph database, world class intelligence products and supporting infrastructure is expanding, and there will be many opportunities to shape and lead in the design of our evolving estate – you will make a real difference within Janes and for national security.
How you will contribute at Janes
- Support the integration of our ontologies, graph database, and tools into customer systems of record.
- Support the development of customer deliveries of Janes interconnected Intelligence products ensuring standards are implemented and maintained.
- Provide advisory support to customers remotely and deployed on site giving technical support and advisory services on data attributes and integration.
- Identify new data, tools, and technologies to support customer workflows.
- Collaboration with the Janes Data Science and Solution Teams to support innovation, experimentation. and demonstration of leading-edge capabilities.
- Develop and deliver cutting edge demonstrations to showcase Janes Intara supporting a variety of use cases in a variety of technologies supporting business development.
- Support the creation of documentation and instructional material.
- Work in product led, agile environments.
Requirements
- Bachelors in Computer Science/Information Technology or equivalent work experience
- Comfortable working in small, agile, and globally distributed teams
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Innovative, dynamic, and creative approach to problem solving with a willingness to learn and grow
- Experience in designing, architecting, and implementing applications in Python (SDKs, APIs)
- Good knowledge of data engineering tools and best practices using Python
- Good understanding of the Software Development Lifecyle
- Good understanding of graph databases
- Hands-on experience working with Github for code management and versioning
- Experience with 2 or more of the following technologies: ArcGIS, Tableau, Graph Databases such as Neo4J, Rango or GraphDB; and Relational Databases.
- Demonstrate interest in computer vision, deep learning, and willingness to grow expertise in these fields
- US Citizenship
The desirable skills and experience for this role are:
- Experience with JavaScript Libraries such as React or Frameworks such as Vue
- Experience with working on Docker, NodeJS, Django, Elastic Search
- Experience building APIs on NodeJS
- Understanding of TypeScript
- Geospatial JavaScript libraries like ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.x / Openlayers / Leaflet / Cesium
- Experience with Python modules such as ArcPy or ArcGIS API for Python
- Hands-on experience with cloud technology and services such as AWS (EC2, Lambda functions, S3, etc.)
- Relevant experience using current Esri technology and leveraging the full ArcGIS Enterprise suite of tools to demonstrate Esri’s patterns of use, including ArcGIS Knowledge
- Can demonstrate experience with computer vision and deep learning
- Background in testing, architecture, front or backend development
- Experience working with national security and defense organizations
Benefits
- 15 days vacation
- 9 days flexible time off
- 12 paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Health insurance (medical, dental and vision)
- 401k retirement plan with company match and immediate vesting
- Hybrid work schedule/flexibility
- Company paid life and disability insurance
- Healthy Half
- Volunteering time
- Weekly fresh fruit delivery (we just started this and people are liking it)!
- Learning & Development opportunities (GoodHabitz, Mentoring)
