Lead Software Engineer with Security Clearance

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Job description

We are seeking an ambitious software engineering professional to join our team. The successful candidate will have the ability to take ownership of hard problems and drive to a solution, while working in a team environment and provide leadership for its implementation. This role is for a candidate who is self-motivated and demonstrates a positive approach, strong work ethic, and ownership for their work. Qualifications REQUIRED: • BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other technical field or equivalent education and work experience
• Minimum of 10 years software development experience
• Experience supporting military or defense programs.
• Demonstrated programming experience in software languages Ada, C/C++, FORTRAN, C#
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management.
• Experience with the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Strong critical thinking and logical reasoning skills with the ability to solve issues and predict potential programmatic and technical risks.
• Proven track record of building relationships, fostering collaboration and working cross-functionally with multidisciplinary teams.
• Must have an active DoD Secret or higher clearance that has been granted or renewed in the last 5 years.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain Special Program Access prior to the start of employment.
• Flexibility to support occasional overtime, weekend work, shift work and site travel (CONUS) PREFERRED: • Experience using earned value management systems to manage a team's cost and schedule performance.
• Experience with Software Change Control, Change Management, and CI/CD tools such as: Atlassian tool suite, GitHub, GitLab, AND/OR Jenkins.
• Experience in an Agile/SAFe leadership role (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Release Train Engineer, e.g.)
• Experience architecting, designing, modeling, implementing, integrating, and debugging OO C++ software running on Real-Time Operating systems such as: VxWorks, Integrity, AND/OR Real Time Embedded Linux.
• Demonstrated mentoring and coaching skills, and excellent 2-way communication skills (upward and downward).
• Time management and organizational skills to prioritize across concurrent program and functional responsibilities.
• Current Special Access Program (SAP) access. Responsibilities TECHNICAL: • Coordinate with other program leads to ensure program completes successfully.
• Work in a team environment, throughout the lifecycle of the program, using either Waterfall or Agile methodologies.
• Develop software products within all phases of the software lifecycle.
• Provide guidance to the project team and ensures project goals are achieved.
• Ensure program plans are followed, and artifacts needed are created for each phase the delivery cycle.
• Actively mentor intermediate and junior engineers
• Understand overall knowledge of the software activities for the project.
• Experience with task/resource planning, development of BOEs, IMP and IMS planning. SECURITY: • Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures.
• Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form.
• Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know.
• Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval.
• All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.
• Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.

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