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# Senior Software Engineer, Analytic Services Lead

- **Company:** Parsons Corporation
- **Location:** Reston, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $148,300.0 - $266,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Java (Programming Language), Information Systems, Data Infrastructure, Shard (Database Architecture), Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, Performance Tuning, Logstash, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Grafana, Indexer, Vue.js, Information Technology, Kibana, Dynatrace, Microservices
- **Published:** September 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9182335/senior-software-engineer-analytic-services-lead

## About the Role

* 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

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

 * 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 + operational telemetry)
 * Experience integrating event pipelines or stream processors into analytics workflows

## Description

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Software Engineer, Analytic Services Lead to join our team!

In this role you will own the design, delivery, performance, and operational evolution of the analytics services domain for a large-scale, globally distributed mission platform.

What You'll Be Doing:

 * Owning the analytics services portfolio, including search, aggregations, event rollups, telemetry analytics, and user-facing visualization services
 * Leading the design and delivery of Java-based analytics microservices and supporting ingestion, indexing, and reporting workflows
 * Defining indexing, sharding, retention, and query strategies across operational telemetry and business-facing analytics workloads
 * Tuning and optimizing queries and service interactions to meet strict performance and latency requirements in real-time mission workflows
 * Ensuring analytics microservices remain scalable, observable, and reliable across globally distributed deployments


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