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# Project Software Engineer III

- **Company:** Deloitte T.T.L.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $95,600 - $188,400
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Performance Tuning, User-Centered Design
- **Published:** October 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://apply.deloitte.com/en_US/careers/Login?jobId=372155

## About the Role

* Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
 * Effective written and verbal communication skills
 * Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
 * Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
 * Ability to lead projects or workstreams
 * Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
 * Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
 * Ability to meet deadlines
 * Ability to provide clear guidance to others, * Bachelor's degree
 * Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
 * 4+ years of experience in Java programming - the language and the JVM, not just a framework built on top of it
 * 4+ years of experience with design patterns and principles - Command, Strategy, Factory, etc., and applying one without overengineering
 * 4+ years of experience in API design - versioning, idempotency, error handling, and the tradeoffs between REST, RPC, and event-driven approaches
 * 4+ years of experience in database management - schema design, indexing, query optimization, and transaction/isolation semantics
 * 4+ years of experience in memory management - can explain heap vs. stack, garbage collection behavior, and how to diagnose a memory leak
 * 4+ years of experience in Cyber Analytics
 * 4+ years of experience in Model Context Protocol (MCP)

## Description

As a Project Software Engineer III on the Government & Public Services team, you will be responsible for backend development to design, build, test, and sustain the services supporting a secure AI-enabled platform that accelerates medical waiver review.

 * Design and develop scalable backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and integrations for document ingestion and AI processing.
 * Support processing of machine-generated and scanned PDFs, including OCR and extraction of structured medical information.
 * Implement workflows for case intake, role-based routing, physician and technician review, feedback capture, and secure export.
 * Integrate AI/ML services that identify relevant conditions, link findings to source documents, and support QUAL, WAVR, and DISQ recommendations.
 * Build audit trails, performance metrics, dashboards, and system logging to support transparency and traceability.
 * Implement secure authentication, authorization, encryption, and data handling for CUI, PII, and PHI in an IL4 environment.
 * Develop APIs and integration patterns that support future connectivity with AFRISS-TF and AFRISS 2.0.
 * Collaborate with AI/ML engineers, frontend developers, cybersecurity personnel, medical SMEs, and government stakeholders.
 * Participate in testing, UAT support, performance tuning, documentation, deployment, sustainment, and knowledge transfer.