Title:  Sr. Associate, Software Engineering

Job Title: Sr. Associate, Software Engineering

Job Code: 43442

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 activities for other software engineers.

The Software Engineer, Senior Associate Level is an early career professional with job area knowledge and broad knowledge of project management, managing individual tasks with oversight to achieve operational targets and goals with direct impact on team results.

Essential Functions:

• Interact directly with engineering team, as well as program management staff as necessary, to analyze and understand requirements
• Translate requirements into optimal 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
• Assist in 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
• Required to perform other appropriate duties as requested, directed, or assigned
• Perform all job functions with a positive, professional attitude

Qualifications:

• Master's or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics
• Minimum of 2 years of:
  •  Progressively advanced object oriented commercial or government software development experienc C# and Visual Studio required (Java experience a potential substitute)
  •  Relevant technologies, software development methodologies, and object-oriented programming languages
  •  Principles, practices, and techniques of object-oriented design/development
  • 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
• Ability to obtain a Secret security clearance

Preferred Additional Skills:

• 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 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 understand, create, and communicate complex design specifications
• WPF/XAML experience preferred
• Azure DevOps source control (GIT)
• A basic understanding of SOLID principles

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