Lead Software Systems Engineer - McLean, United States - MITRE

Description

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Department Summary:

The Software Engineering & Computing Department (SWEC) is seeking a Lead Software Engineer with a desire to work on innovative advanced approaches and technologies to solve our sponsors' most critical technological problems. In this role you will provide technical leadership in the full life cycle and hands-on support to critical sponsor problems in Software Engineering. In addition, you will have an opportunity to work in many different sponsor domains with a wide variety of software engineering and information technology applications, protypes and systems. This Lead Software Engineer should not only excel in software development but also possesses innovation and leadership skills. In this position, you will play a critical role in driving technical innovation, leading cross-functional teams, and collaborating with stakeholders to identify and pursue new opportunities for impact.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Do you want to make the world safer by applying your software engineering skills? At MITRE, work as a trusted advisor to provide thought leadership and problem-solving skills to the government to deliver needed capabilities to address the world's most difficult problems.

Specific responsibilities will include:

• Play a trusted role as a technical leader in helping government sponsors apply life-cycle software engineering methodologies and software development technologies to mission critical systems.
• Design technical projects utilizing software engineering skills to help sponsors to integrate, scale, consolidate and modernize software systems for solving national security problems.
• Lead teams that provide technical advice and solutions to fully integrate software engineering technologies and tools in the sponsors environments.
• Provide technical expertise to design, prototype and maintain environments from end-to-end deployment
• Serve as project leader, task leader or subject matter expert on projects with supported government organizations related to security, architecture, and engineering support
• Conduct analysis of current government and support contractor implementations of software engineering efforts
• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of healthy software solutions that address complex problems in areas such as national security, healthcare, and sustainability
• Collaborate with MITRE experts in software engineering knowledge management, research, and other efforts to grow MITRE's body of knowledge in software engineering capabilities and disciplines.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, related STEM major and 8 + years experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.
• Hands on expertise in software development life cycle and is fully responsible for delivery – including definition, completion, and technical quality.
• Experience with DevOps methodologies and tools (e.g., Chef, Ansible, Maven, Jenkins, Terraform, Gitlab).
• Familiarity with enterprise-level models of agile development (e.g., SAFE)
• Documented success defining and leading projects or programs greater than themselves with experience in both task leadership and management.
• The position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Preference given to qualified applicants holding active clearance.
• Master's degree in computer science or Software Engineering or similar field
• Experience in software design and implementation in federal and commercial domains
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Experience or expertise in 3 or more of the following areas:
  • Experience with continuous software integration and deployment
  • Experience (architectural and/or hands-on) with one or more commercial cloud offerings (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc)
  • Experience in release, sprint planning, and backlog management with related agile tools (e.g., VersionOne, JIRA)
  • Experience in agile software delivery (e.g., Scrum, XP)
  • Fluent in one or more languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Java, C++ or C#)
  • Experience with automated testing
  • Experience with containerization platforms (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

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