Software Engineer (Developer) at Ardent Principles, Inc.
Herndon, VA
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Jul 16, 2026
Herndon, VA
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-time, fully onsite software engineering role requiring an active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph. The work centers on building and maintaining applications across SharePoint, ServiceNow, and Salesforce, including requirements validation, UI/accessibility design, performance optimization, and cloud automation on AWS. Candidates should bring experience across a broad stack spanning Java, JavaScript frameworks, Python, REST/SOAP services, and DevOps tooling such as Jenkins and GitHub.
Mid level · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105).
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 (8)
An active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph is explicitly stated as required and is a hard gate for this role.
The posting lists a very large number of technologies under the 'Key Responsibilities' / required skills section, framed as 'you must have the following required skills.' In practice, this is an unusually broad list and likely reflects a wish list rather than strict rejection criteria for every item — but all are marked required per the JD's own framing.
The salary is described as 'highly competitive' but no specific figures are provided, so no compensation range could be extracted.
The role is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) given the primary emphasis on building and enhancing applications; Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) is a plausible alternative given the requirements-validation and SharePoint Designer duties.
No overall years-of-experience requirement is stated anywhere in the posting.
AngularJS is listed alongside Angular in the JD; Angular is captured as the canonical skill since AngularJS is a legacy predecessor and Angular is the current framework — both are implied by the listing.
XSL and SOAP Web services appear in the required list; SOAP is captured as an alternative to REST (one requirement covering both web service styles). XSL is omitted as it is a data-transformation syntax subsumed under the XML skill.
Requires a TS/SCI 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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