Role: Software Engineer Level 3

Location: US-MD-Laurel

Required Active TS/SCI w FSP (NSA).

One (1) day of telework per week permissible.

Security Clearance Requirements:

This position requires all candidates to be U.S. Citizens and possess an active TS/SCI Security Clearance with a Polygraph.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements
• Debug existing software and correct defects
• Provide recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards
• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features
• Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments
• Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed datasets or data repositories
• Write or review software and system documentation
• Serve as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular project
• Design or implement complex database or data repository interfaces / queries
• Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards
• Assist with development and executing test procedures for software components
• Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards, confer with users or system engineers; analyze systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigate problem areas
• Modify existing software to correct errors, to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance
• Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design
• Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints; Perform quality control on team products
• Implement recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards
• Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project
• Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces
• Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure operational specifications are met

Qualifications:

Required Education & Years of Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Twenty (20) years experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.

Required Skills

• Two (2) years experience for developing applications using specified programming language per the development requirements.
• Two (2) years of development for Windows or UNIX applications using general purpose languages (e.g., C, C , C#, Java, and Python)
• Two (2) years of experience with DevOps building and deploying technologies (e.g., Artifactory, Dockery, Terraform, Ansible, Packer).
• One (1) year experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins and Bamboo), and building automated CI/CD pipelines.