Specialist, Software Engineering

Job Title: Specialist, Software Engineer 

Job Code:  41609

Job Location: Nashville, TN

Job Schedule: 9/80 employees work 9 out of 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have 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, 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

Qualifications:

• Experience with C# and Visual Studio required (Java experience a potential substitute)
• Experience in Object Oriented Development
• Proficient knowledge of relevant technologies, software development methodologies, and programming languages
• Proficient knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of object-oriented design/development
• Understanding and ability to implement Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Proficient knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of software unit, component, integration testing, techniques of source code management and defect tracking
• Ability to understand, create, and communicate complex design specifications
• Ability to obtain a Secret security clearance, which requires US citizenship
• Ability to travel up to 10%

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience with WPF/XAML
• A basic understanding of SOLID principals
• Ability to utilize design patterns as appropriate
• Basic understanding of UML (Unified Modeling Language
• 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 4 years of progressively advanced object oriented commercial or government software development experience

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