Title:  Senior Specialist, Software Engineering

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Software Engineering     

Job Number: 29182

Job Location:    Nashville, TN

Schedule:  9/80

Clearance: Must Be Able to Obtain and Maintain a DoD Security Clearance, Which Requires U.S. Citizenship 

Job Summary:

Participate and consistently contribute to planning, design, implementation, verification, deployment, and support activities for custom software components and applications.  May perform task management activities for other software engineers. 

The Software Engineer, Senior Specialist Level is a senior professional with strong job area knowledge and broad knowledge of project management, managing complex projects and processes with general oversight to achieve operational targets and goals with direct impact on team and departmental results. 

Job Requirements:

• Interact directly with engineering team and program management staff to analyze and understand requirements  
• Translate requirements into appropriate technical designs  
• Effectively present technical designs to software engineering, program management, and other team members  
• Implement requirements into software components and applications according to technical design  
• Unit and component test software components and applications to ensure quality of deliverables  
• Provide input and effort for the technical verification of all technical, functional and corporate requirements prior to delivery of software components and applications  
• Investigate and address requirement violations in functional testing and production software as needed  
• Track and report status of tasks, deliverables, and issues to software engineering team  
• Adhere to corporate processes and standards for all activities and deliverables during all phases of involvement in the software development life cycle  
• Effectively manage multiple task assignments  
• Mentor less experienced team members as appropriate  
• Perform other appropriate duties as requested, directed, or assigned  
• Perform all job functions with a positive, professional attitude 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of relevant technologies, software development methodologies, and programming languages 
• Strong knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of object-oriented design/development 
• Strong understanding of regulatory standards impact on software development 
• Strong knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of software unit, component, and integration testing 
• Strong knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of source code management and defect tracking 
• Ability to effectively utilize both written and verbal communication skills 
• Ability to identify complex problems and provide multiple solutions 
• Ability to understand, create, and communicate complex design specifications 
• Ability to quickly and effectively breakdown assignments into work tasks and provide effort and schedule estimates and successfully achieve them 
• Ability to use judgment and logic in decision-making considering relative to costs and benefits of potential actions 
• Ability to promote a corporate ethics and exhibit a spirit of teamwork and cooperation within the organization 
• Understanding and ability to implement Agile and Scrum methodologies 
• Ability to work in a team environment and highly effective at collaboration. 
• Experience with C# and Visual Studio required (Java experience a potential substitute)  
• Experience with WPF/XAML required. 
• Experience with Object Oriented development with focus on SOLID principals.
• Ability to understand and utilize UML (Unified Modeling Language) and understand design patters.
• Ability to obtain a Secret security clearance, which requires US citizenship 

Preferred Skills (beyond required):

• Ability to understand and utilize UML (Unified Modeling Language) 

• Ability to identify and apply design patterns as appropriate. 
• Azure DevOps source control (GIT) and pipeline development (YAML). 
• TCP/UDP experience is preferred.
• Experience with multithreaded application development. 

Education and Experience:

• Master's or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Minimum of 6 years of progressively advanced object oriented commercial or government software development experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

Physical Demands:

• Required to sit for long periods of time
• Infrequent light physical effort required
• Written and verbal communication
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard and mouse
• May require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane
• This is an on-site position

Personal Protective Equipment:

• As required by program needs

Work Environment:

• Work performed in an office environment with people close to each other
• Working with computers, and other computer components
• Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside of normal working hours (evenings and weekends)

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