Title:  Specialist Software Engineering

Job Title:  Specialist, Software Engineering

Requisition Number: 39373

Job Location: Nashville, TN

Schedule:  9/80 (Every other Friday off!)

Job Description:

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

The Software Engineer, Specialist Level is a seasoned and experienced professional with proficient job area knowledge and practical knowledge of project management, managing projects and processes under general supervision to achieve operational targets with moderate impact on departmental results.

Essential Functions:

• 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

 Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
• 4 years of progressively advanced object oriented commercial or government software development experience
• 4 year experience in:
  • Relevant technologies, software development methodologies, and programming languages
  • Principles, practices, and techniques of object-oriented design/development in a real-time environment
  • Regulatory standards impact on software development
  • Principles, practices, and techniques of software unit, component, and integration testing
  • Principles, practices, and techniques of source code management and defect tracking
  • Object Oriented development with focus on SOLID principals. 
  • C# development and WPF/XAML experience..
  • A strong understanding of design patterns and UML. TCP/UDP experience. 
  • Hardware/Software API development. 
  • Agile and Scrum methodoligies, valuing procedures principles.
  • Version 1
  • C# and Visual Studio required (Java experience a potential substitute) 
  • Ability to obtain a Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to work in a team environment and highly effective at collaboration.
• 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
• 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
• Basic understanding of UML (Unified Modeling Language)
• Ability to utilize design patterns as appropriate.
• Azure DevOps source control (GIT) experience and YAML pipeline/release development is a plus..
• A basic understanding of SOLID principals.
• Experience with multithreaded application development.

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