Sr. Specialist, Software Engineering 1

L3Harris•Nashville, TN

About The Position

Participate and consistently contribute to planning, design, implementation, verification, deployment, and support activities for custom software components and applications. The role may include task management activities for other software engineers. This is a senior professional position requiring strong knowledge of the job area and broad knowledge of project management. The role manages complex projects and processes with general oversight to achieve operational targets and goals, with direct impact on team and departmental results. The work schedule is a 9/80 schedule: employees work 9 out of 14 days, totaling 80 hours, and have every other Friday off.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics field and at least 6 years of prior relevant experience; or a graduate degree and at least 4 years of prior related experience; or, in lieu of a degree, at least 10 years of prior related experience.
At least 4 years of experience with C# and Visual Studio; Java experience may be a potential substitute.
Experience with WPF/XAML, object-oriented design and development principles, practices, and techniques, relevant technologies, software development methodologies, and programming languages.
Ability to obtain a US Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Ability to understand and utilize UML (Unified Modeling Language).
Ability to identify and apply design patterns as appropriate.
Experience with Azure DevOps source control (GIT) and pipeline development (YAML).
Strong understanding of SOLID principles.
Experience with multithreaded application development.
Strong knowledge of object-oriented design and development principles, practices, and techniques.
Understanding of the impact of regulatory standards on software development.
Strong knowledge of software unit, component, and integration testing principles, practices, and techniques.
Strong knowledge of source code management and defect tracking principles, practices, and techniques.
Effective written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to identify complex problems and provide multiple solutions.
Ability to understand, create, and communicate complex design specifications.
Ability to break assignments into work tasks quickly and effectively, provide effort and schedule estimates, and successfully achieve them.
Ability to use judgment and logic in decision-making while considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions.
Ability to promote corporate ethics and demonstrate teamwork and cooperation within the organization.
Understanding of and ability to implement Agile and Scrum methodologies.
Ability to work in a team environment and collaborate effectively.

Responsibilities

Perform job functions with a positive, professional attitude.
Perform other appropriate duties as requested, directed, or assigned.
Mentor less experienced team members as appropriate.
Effectively manage multiple task assignments.
Adhere to corporate processes and standards for activities and deliverables throughout all phases of the software development life cycle.
Track and report task, deliverable, and issue status to the software engineering team.
Investigate and address requirement violations in functional testing and production software as needed.
Provide input and effort for technical verification of technical, functional, and corporate requirements before delivery of software components and applications.
Unit- and component-test software components and applications to ensure deliverable quality.
Implement requirements into software components and applications according to technical design.
Present technical designs effectively to software engineering, program management, and other team members.
Translate requirements into appropriate technical designs.
Interact directly with engineering and program management staff to analyze and understand requirements.
May perform task management activities for other software engineers.