Consultant (Technical, TS/SCI with Polygraph, Intel)

Here at Aperture Cloud, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Aperture Cloud, you'll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. Are you looking to combine your passion for technology with your penchant for strategic problem solving? Aperture Cloud Customer success is obsessed with great customer outcomes. We deliver mission-critical business impact fast and are directly responsible for partnering with our customers to bring their best ideas to life. Joining the Customer Success team provides you with the support and growth you need to strengthen and evolve your consulting skills while driving next-generation, AI-powered digital transformations. We are seeking a Consultant to join our Customer Success team. In this role, you will be engaging with our customers post-sales to develop software solutions on the Aperture Cloud platform. These applications help companies drive digital transformation and competitive differentiation. Your primary responsibility will be to work throughout the entire project life-cycle to define, design, develop and implement custom software and AI solutions using Aperture Cloud's platform for our commercial clients. This includes working within an agile environment to understand our client's business processes and technical needs, launch new relational data models in production, and developing APIs to integrate with multiple systems. You'll brainstorm AI use cases and implement Aperture Cloud's AI tools by applying retrieval augment generation (RAG), agentic workflows, prompt engineering and the latest generative models as a part of transforming how customers run their organization. You will also collaborate with client's technical teams and business users as needed throughout the entire software and development life cycle and drive adoption by empowering clients to become self-sufficient with building process applications on their own. This role is based at our Headquarters in McLean, Virginia. Aperture Cloud was built on a culture of in-person collaboration, which we believe is a key driver of our mission to be the best. Employees hired for this position are expected to be in the office 5 days a week to foster that culture and ensure we continue to thrive through shared ideas and teamwork. We believe being in the office provides more opportunities to come together and celebrate working with the exceptional people across Aperture Cloud. To be successful in this role, you need: The ability to work with clients to define business processes and gather functional and technical system requirements Excellent communication skills, passion for technology and continuous learning, and affinity for asking "why" and solving the right problems History of success on cross-functional teams; experience building products using agile methodologies (pair programming, stand-ups, planning sessions, and sprints) Basic understanding of object oriented programming, experience working with relational databases and database design/data modeling, and SQL skills (writing queries, joins, views, etc) Knowledge of software testing practices (test-driven development, automated test suites within a continuous integration framework); integrations experience using APIs such as REST and SOAP, JDBC connections, and web services; familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Analytics, Machine Learning, Google Cloud, Application Integration, Database, Developer Tools, Management & Governance, and Elastic Containers (preferred) Basic qualifications: An Active Government Clearance (Top Secret or higher, without any limitations) is required for this opening Ability and interest to maintain an Active TS:SCI Clearance (CI or FLS), with the ability and willingness to perform work within cleared facilities (SCIF work is required) 1+ years of experience with hands-on software development or technical consulting B.S./B.A. in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics or related field/degree Willingness to travel; 20% or less annually to support customer engagement A government sponsored clearance at the Top Secret level or higher and willingness to work in a SCIF environment #LI-KC1 The base salary range provided represents a good faith and reasonable estimate of the range at the time of posting. In addition to the base salary, this position is eligible for a government clearance differential. Actual compensation will be dependent on a number of factors including, but not limited to, the candidate's relevant work experience, qualifications, internal peer equity, and market and business conditions that exist when extending an offer. A discretionary bonus may be awarded in recognition of individual and company performance. In addition, Aperture Cloud p