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Senior User Experience (UX) Software Engineer - TS/SCI w/Poly with Security Clearance
PeratonAnnapolis Junction, MD🇺🇸United StatesPosted 13 Jul 2026
Quick Overview
Salary
$146k - $234k/yr
Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Employee
Level
Mid Senior
Job Description
About Peraton Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure. Program Overview Provides IC data management support to modernize mega data repositories, dataflow management, data provenance and compliance validation, and streaming solutions. About The Role The team is seeking a highly motivated User Experience software engineer to support development and software solutions to support data tracking and metrics solutions. The ideal candidate will: * Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with systems engineers and developers across projects to support the planning, design, development, and utilization of a final product recommendation. * Work directly with the customer and team to evolve requirements and support the creation and presentation of design documents and product demonstrations.
* Product evaluation, integration, testing and design process for data tracking and metrics solutions. * Participate in Agile development activities, to include Sprint planning, scheduling, and Jira ticket management. * Ensure software standards and best practices are utilized.The selected candidate will join an experienced team working on efforts to modernize an existing data tracking and metrics system. The User Experience (UX) developer should be able to focus on developing highly usable end user interfaces, applying UI best practices and UX principles. #MDFSP Qualifications Basic Qualifications: * TS/SCI with Polygraph level clearance is required
* BA/BS and 20 years of experience; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree. * The candidate will need a strong background in Linux, CSS, JavaScript and HTML to be able to develop, debug maintain, and deploy the UI application. The candidate needs to know how to work independently within small team and able to engage with a larger team.
* (5) years of experience and have familiarity with task analysis, user interface design, and usability testing
* Experience in each of the usability and software engineering cycle phases (analysis, design, implementation, and deployment)
* Work closely with users (analysts) to research for and document user profiles, analysis tasks, workflows, and user scenarios
* Work with users to collect and document user performance requirements
* Create user interface design specifications, as required
* Work closely with product designers and process engineers to develop applications
* Conduct usability testing
* Design and develop user surveys to obtain user feedbackRequired Skills: * UI/UX experience
* 508 Compliance
* Experience with React
* CSS, Javascript, HTML
* MVC Full Stack experienceAdditional Desired Qualifications: * Experience with the following:
* GoLang, Python, Java, Hadoop, Accumulo
* core AWS services
* Good background in Linux/Unix administration
* Apache NiFi
* REST
* JMS
* Building or maintaining cloud-native applications
* Docker and Kubernetes. Having used EMR, EC2 and various Databases is a plusBenefits: Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees supporting this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, and eligibility to participate in an attractive bonus plan. Details Target Salary Range: $146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits. Application Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. EEO:Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.
* Product evaluation, integration, testing and design process for data tracking and metrics solutions. * Participate in Agile development activities, to include Sprint planning, scheduling, and Jira ticket management. * Ensure software standards and best practices are utilized.The selected candidate will join an experienced team working on efforts to modernize an existing data tracking and metrics system. The User Experience (UX) developer should be able to focus on developing highly usable end user interfaces, applying UI best practices and UX principles. #MDFSP Qualifications Basic Qualifications: * TS/SCI with Polygraph level clearance is required
* BA/BS and 20 years of experience; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree. * The candidate will need a strong background in Linux, CSS, JavaScript and HTML to be able to develop, debug maintain, and deploy the UI application. The candidate needs to know how to work independently within small team and able to engage with a larger team.
* (5) years of experience and have familiarity with task analysis, user interface design, and usability testing
* Experience in each of the usability and software engineering cycle phases (analysis, design, implementation, and deployment)
* Work closely with users (analysts) to research for and document user profiles, analysis tasks, workflows, and user scenarios
* Work with users to collect and document user performance requirements
* Create user interface design specifications, as required
* Work closely with product designers and process engineers to develop applications
* Conduct usability testing
* Design and develop user surveys to obtain user feedbackRequired Skills: * UI/UX experience
* 508 Compliance
* Experience with React
* CSS, Javascript, HTML
* MVC Full Stack experienceAdditional Desired Qualifications: * Experience with the following:
* GoLang, Python, Java, Hadoop, Accumulo
* core AWS services
* Good background in Linux/Unix administration
* Apache NiFi
* REST
* JMS
* Building or maintaining cloud-native applications
* Docker and Kubernetes. Having used EMR, EC2 and various Databases is a plusBenefits: Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees supporting this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, and eligibility to participate in an attractive bonus plan. Details Target Salary Range: $146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits. Application Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. EEO:Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.
Skills
Docker
AWS
Agile
Apache
CSS
Go
HTML
HTTPS
Hadoop
Java
JavaScript
Jira
Kubernetes
Python
REST
React
SAFe
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