Arlington, VA

Salary
Posted
Jul 26, 2026
Location
Arlington, VA
Last confirmed open
Jul 28, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A Senior Application Developer role supporting a federal agency enterprise data management program, building and maintaining enterprise web applications and search capabilities for roughly 12,000 users. The work centers on ASP.NET C# MVC back-end development, search integration with ElasticSearch/AWS OpenSearch, message-queuing-based decoupled components, and modern front-end frameworks. The position is contingent on contract award and requires an active Secret clearance.

Senior level · 8+ years · Secret clearance · Full-time

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Must have (7)
ASP.NET C# MVC · 5+ yrsVisual Studio · 5+ yrsAgile · 5+ yrsElasticSearch or Aws Opensearchmessage queuingReact or Angular · 2+ yrsASP.NET Core · 1+ yrs
Nice to have (1)
AWS

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

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What won't set you apart
React40%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (6)

This posting is contingent on contract award — any offer of employment depends on the federal contract being won.

The 'Work Environment' and 'Physical Demands' sections describe an executive/Navy leadership setting with classified communication systems and extensive travel, which appears to be boilerplate copied from a different role and is inconsistent with the rest of the application developer job description. The 'Travel' section separately states no travel is expected.

ElasticSearch/AWS OpenSearch is listed in the Competencies section as 'strongly preferred' rather than flatly required, but it appears in the Essential Functions as a core integration task; treated as a hard gate given the dual placement and the role's explicit search focus.

AWS is surfaced only as the hosting platform for OpenSearch clusters; listed as preferred rather than a standalone gate.

Bachelor's degree is listed but the posting explicitly states experience can be considered in lieu of education, so no minimum degree is hard-required.

Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.

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