Tools Developer

The Sponsors production and development services provide high-quality interactive mobile video web and audio products that concisely convey complex topics to a variety of executive customers. The Sponsor manages its own technical cloud-based infrastructure and custom applications and services to support production efforts. The Sponsor requires support specializing in Adobe Creative Cloud scripting. The Sponsor needs polished skills in communication teamwork and collaborative development while managing a moderate to heavy workload.

Responsibilities

• Use Adobe Creative Cloud Scripting to develop maintain troubleshoot document and enhance automation scripts supporting Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop production environments
• Develop modify debug test document and maintain production-quality Adobe scripts
• Troubleshoot scripts following Adobe Creative Cloud application updates operating-system changes changes to source documents and changes to production workflows and assessing the impact of Adobe Creative Cloud version changes on existing automation
• Automate complex production workflows involving document creation or modification graphics and asset manipulation file processing and document export
• Analyze existing or legacy Adobe scripts identify defects or performance issues and modify or refactor scripts while preserving required functionality
• Develop scripts that interact with web APIs local file systems directories and common production file formats
• Create technical documentation describing script architecture dependencies configuration installation operation and known limitations
• Develop test cases and conduct functional regression testing
• Manage project priorities and tasks to ensure accuracy and timeliness clarity of message and quality control for products
• Meet Sponsors requirements for quality responsiveness and accessibility. The Contractor shall comply with Sponsor development standards and employ modern web and application design and development best practices.
• Update assigned project statuses in Sponsors production tracking tool

Requirements

• TS/SCI FSP Clearance
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining automation scripts for Adobe Creative Cloud applications
• Demonstrated experience specifically developing scripts for Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop
• Demonstrated advanced proficiency in JavaScript/ExtendScript and demonstrated experience using Adobe application-specific scripting interfaces and object models
• Demonstrated experience with Adobe UXP CEP or other Adobe extensibility technologies
• Demonstrated ability to develop modify debug test document and maintain production-quality Adobe scripts
• Demonstrated experience automating complex production workflows involving document creation or modification graphics and asset manipulation file processing and document export
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting scripts following Adobe Creative Cloud application updates operating-system changes changes to source documents and changes to production workflows and assessing the impact of Adobe Creative Cloud version changes on existing automation
• Demonstrated ability to analyze existing/legacy Adobe scripts identify defects or performance issues and modify or refactor scripts while preserving required functionality
• Demonstrated experience implementing appropriate error handling validation logging and recovery mechanisms in automation scripts
• Demonstrated experience developing scripts that interact with web APIs local file systems directories and common production file formats
• Demonstrated experience with software development lifecycle practices including requirements analysis development testing deployment maintenance and defect resolution
• Demonstrated experience using source-code/version-control systems such as Git or an equivalent technology
• Demonstrated experience diagnosing and resolving production defects within established service or project timelines
• Demonstrated experience developing maintainable modular and documented code
• Demonstrated experience creating technical documentation describing script architecture dependencies configuration installation operation and known limitations
• Demonstrated experience developing test cases and conduct functional and regression testing

Desired Skills

• Demonstrated experience with Adobe InDesign Server
• Demonstrated experience with automated build deployment or testing processes
• Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale publishing digital media graphic production or prepress environments
• Demonstrated experience maintaining enterprise-level or mission-critical Adobe automation
• Demonstrated experience with sharing of files between InDesign Illustrator and Photoshop
• Demonstrated experience with automated generation of graphics charts and tables for placement in InDesign or Illustrator
• Demonstrated experience with authoring Adobe plugins
• Demonstrated experience with automated processing of linked assets
• Demonstrated experience with coordinating file naming directory and asset-management processes
• Demonstrated experience with batch processing across multiple Adobe applications
• Demonstrated experience integrating Adobe scripting with external files or structured data sources

About Us
For more than 20 years NewGen Technologies has solved our clients toughest IT challenges with integrity security and outstanding service by delivering both technology and talent. We have helped secure borders have used artificial intelligence (AI) to fight terror aided the identification of criminals and have helped to prevent crime through the introduction of team of Highly Cleared Specialists have hard-to-find skills and expertise in a wide spectrum of technologies to provide solutions that transform business processes and solve problems of national significance. #CJ