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LEAD COMPUTER SCIENTIST - LEAD ENGINEER - PRINCIPAL COMPUTER SCIENTIST - Mission Development & Management

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Who We Are

Join the Defense and Intelligence Solutions team; team members support design and development complex and innovative software solutions across a variety customers and platform types. Enjoy a hybrid work schedule out of San Antonio, Texas with excellent benefits and team-members!

Objectives Of This Role

• Highly motivated, proactive, and detailed oriented individual to add to a dynamic team of Software Architects, other Computer Scientists and Engineers that are designing, developing, and documenting next generation software solutions.
• Effectively lead small teams through the Software Life Cycle using Agile Methodologies, to include requirements creation and interpretation, leading design, trade studies, work breakdown, estimations, dev and test, documentation, task tracking and status, and deployment.
• Support/lead design and development for new technical solutions and frameworks for thin client, server side development, OOP, embedded programming and database patterns and implementation.
• Create and contribute to customer required requirements, design and other documentation.
• Understand applied research solutions and contribute to designs that will support more robust scalability, sustainability, and availability to enable moving the solution from a research to an operational environment.
• Support proposals as needed.
• Confident, effective and proactive communicator, both verbally and in writing.
• Give task updates, contribute to project schedules, recommend technical solutions, track risks, ask questions, create technical documentation, and support client interactions.
  
  

Daily And Monthly Responsibilities

• Leading the design and dev of advanced software architectures utilizing object oriented and embedded programming fundamentals, distributing computing, thin clients, and data distribution systems.
• Proactively communicating on task status and communicating with leadership.
• Strong technical leadership skills.
• Leading all phases of the project life cycle: interpreting and deriving requirements, designing and developing solutions to difficult problems, testing and integration with a larger system, and installing and documenting complete solutions.
• Proactively and effectively interacting with team members, working with the team and customer to understand requirements and constraints of the target environment.
• Working with internal teams to support SW side of proposals, to include basis of estimates.
• Strong skills creating task WBS for SW efforts to support Agile development, leading task estimations, creating software schedule, tracking task status.
• Assess and quantify technical debt based on constraints and requirements.
• If tasking permits, working a hybrid home/office schedule.
• Up to 25% travel. Travel to SwRI facilities, short-term travel to government client facilities in the U.S. and overseas.
  
  

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelors or a Masters degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (emphasis on programming and software development) or related such as computational engineering.
• Current DoD security clearance is highly desired.
• 8 years: Experience leading technical teams for software projects or programs, to include planning, estimating and tracking of tasks. Experience in a variety of programming languages such as Javascript, JAVA, C#, C , HTML5, and Python.
• 7 years: Experience for those with a Masters.
• Be able to analyze and translate complex technical requirements into an application design, implementation, unit and integration testing; assess and communicate technical debt associated with constraints and design, create software unit testing, and integration & documentation.
• Be proficient in working with Microsoft Tools, Teams, Various Software Repositories, Various Build Environments, Software Engineering practices, Various Operating systems, Distributed computing, and Computer Science principles.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, proactive communicator, detailed oriented, fast learner, work in a collaborative team environment, and the ability to self-direct.
• A valid/clear driver's license is required.
  
  

Special Requirements

Applicant selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Applicant must be a U.S. citizen.

Job Locations: San Antonio, Texas

For more information about this division, visit the Defense & Intelligence Solutions home page.

For benefits information at our San Antonio location, click here.

For benefits information at all other locations, click here.

An Equal Employment Opportunity Employer: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, and veteran status.

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