Lead Software Systems Engineer

BoeingKent, WA
$158,100 - $213,900Onsite

About The Position

Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) has an exciting opportunity for a Lead Software Systems Engineer to join the P-8 Missions System Software Engineering team in Kent, WA. The P-8 Mission Systems Software architecture team needs a strong software architect on-site to lead a software product baseline team. The P-8 Poseidon program is the premier Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) platform for the US Navy and several international partners. Candidates will belong to an Agile software engineering development team that supports architecture, requirements, framework, operating system, and application development. This engineer shall lead, oversee, and direct design, development, analysis, and maintenance of software systems, possess applicable domain experience, and work with internal and external teams across the P-8 Program to support a software product baseline. Duties include but are not limited to: developing requirements, creation of design documentation inputs/formatting, technical coordination/cross-training, software development, and software validation and testing.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • This position requires an active U.S. Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)
  • 9+ years’ experience with software development on Windows or Linux
  • 5+ years’ experience with Java or C++

Nice To Haves

  • Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science and 9+ years of related work experience OR Bachelor’s Degree and 13+ years of directly related work experience OR 17+ years of related, relevant experience
  • Strong systems thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Practical experience with requirements decomposition, requirements tracing and configuration management
  • Familiar with standard engineering tools such as requirements management (DOORS or similar), MBSE (MSOSA/Cameo or similar), test management, and common collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, Git)
  • Experience with mission systems, avionics, command & control architectures, embedded systems, sensor systems, or related defense/space programs.
  • Experience with Agile or SAFe practices, including daily standup, User Stories, Sprints, and Release Planning
  • Experience using dependency management and automation services (e.g. Maven, Git, Jenkins, etc.)

Responsibilities

  • Leads the planning of software development tasks including detailed software design, coding, and unit/integration/functional/system testing of customer desired features/user stories, ensuring successful achievement of acceptance criteria
  • Leads and oversees the design, architecture, prototyping, and development of mission computing and software modernization
  • Partners with software and hardware stakeholders to inform system definition and oversees translation of system-level requirements into software requirements to meet Navy customer capability requests
  • Provides cross-team architecture level guidance for P-8 Mission Systems Software including estimation of new business and opportunities
  • Reviews completion of software system-level analyses to identify risk, issues and opportunities; leads integration and deployment of mitigation actions throughout the software lifecycle
  • Leads code reviews to ensure alignment to requirements and standard
  • Mentor’s junior engineers and provide cross-training within the team by implementing and documenting standard design, test, and execution processes and procedures

Benefits

  • health insurance
  • flexible spending accounts
  • health savings accounts
  • retirement savings plans
  • life and disability insurance programs
  • paid and unpaid time away from work
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