Software Team Product Owner

TCS•Huntsville, AL

9d•Onsite

About The Position

TCS is searching for a Software Team Product Owner to join our strong team of Engineers supporting our Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) customer in Huntsville, AL. The GMD program is a portion of the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) system to protect the US and our allies from ballistic missile attacks. The selected candidate will use modern tools to further the development and sustainment of the GMD system. This is an in-office position. Remote work is not available. Essential Functions: This is an Agile Product Owner (PO) role for a software development team developing software primarily in Ada but with a potential for new development to be done in a modular hybrid approach developing new modules in C++ being called from the Ada core software. This programs expectation of a Product Owner includes being responsible for the teams roadmap, the vision of the teams products, the estimation of work required to complete capabilities, the planning of the work for the scrum team, producing the metrics that show the team's progress and briefing those metrics to program leadership. Also, importantly, the activities just listed are expected to be less than half of the POs typical workload with the lions share being technical performance in writing/developing software. The software product we are developing is for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system on GMD weapon system (GWS) contract.

Requirements

Bachelors degree in STEM related field, and 8 years of related experience, or a Masters degree with 6 years of related experience, or 4 years with a PhD not to exceed 14 years
Recent and extensive Experience Developing Software in Ada or C++ or Java
Willingness to become highly proficient with Ada software development
Experience leading a technical team of 5 or more employees
Strong technical presentation skills
Experience in estimating, planning and scheduling software development work for a technical team
Eager to learn and absorb new concepts and information
Must have an Interim or Active Secret Clearance
Unix/Linux Operating System Experience
Must be able to support an in-person / closed-area work environment
Experience with Agile Project Management tools (Jira/Confluence) and DevSecOps tools and methods (Jenkins, Ansible, Git/Gitlab) of continuous integration/continuous delivery and deployment (CI/CD) automation
Proven experience in understanding complex algorithms and implementing them in software
Proven team player willing to understand multiple aspects of the project

Nice To Haves

Recent MATLAB and Python Experience
Highly experienced with Linux, scripting, and operations
Experience with the MDA GMD program.
Very solid background in math and physics
Advanced degree in Mathematics or Physics
Math Skills: Linear Algebra, Statistics, Algorithms Can be from coursework or work experience
Physics Skills: Astro or Orbital mechanics Can be from coursework or work experience
Experience with optimization algorithms
Experience with planning/scheduling algorithms
Experience with sensor modeling, communication modeling, and/or missile modeling
Battle Management or Fire Control experience

Responsibilities

being responsible for the teams roadmap
the vision of the teams products
the estimation of work required to complete capabilities
the planning of the work for the scrum team
producing the metrics that show the team's progress and briefing those metrics to program leadership
technical performance in writing/developing software