The FBI's Operational Technology Division is seeking a Forensic Toolkit Lead Developer to support the development and maintenance of forensic software solutions, specifically the MXU code base, to address the challenges associated with processing and analyzing petabytes of digital evidence from various sources.
Requirements
- Technical experience in software development with a specialization in digital forensics and forensic tool development.
- Expert knowledge of forensic analysis techniques, file systems, data recovery, and evidence handling best practices.
- Proficiency in .Net programming languages as well as thin client front-end technologies.
- Familiarity with forensic standards and protocols, and an ability to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements for digital evidence handling.
- Extensive experience delivering forensic software deployed in the commercial cloud and capable of distributed processing.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing projects that span software development, cybersecurity, and IT infrastructure.
- Relevant certifications related to technical architecture, software development, or forensics referred.
Responsibilities
- Act as a subject matter expert for forensic tool portions of the MXU code base and provide senior level design guidance while leading a team of developers to implement new features and resolve software issues.
- Lead the design, development and analysis of customer operational and application systems.
- Lead the maintenance efforts of MXU, including system enhancements, bug fixes, and security enhancements.
- Integrate bug fixes, security enhancements and new capabilities as approved by the government.
- Deliver forensic tool builds using agile processes to deliver incremental builds based upon agreed upon MXU requirements.
- Develop mechanism to seamlessly share results with other MXU applications using common databases, schemas and object storage methods.
- Develop intuited interfaces to exploit and discover relationships between multiple collections of data stored across multiple databases.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in an IT related discipline
- Top Secret Security Clearance
- Strong communication skills; must be able to articulate complex technical issues to a non-technical audience, including law enforcement officers, analysts, and government officials.
- U.S. Citizen
- Less than 10% travel required
