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Senior Level Career (10+ yrs experience)
Aerospace and Aviation
Manhattan Beach, CA (On-Site/Office)
Our aerospace client is looking for a Software Lead with Active Secret Clearance who will drive program execution toward software delivery schedule and should be familiar with software development best practices to right-size the needs of the effort (e.g. configuration management, unit testing).
Location: Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 (On-site)
Position: Software Lead with Active Secret Clearance
Pay Rate: $111 - $125.79/hr. on W2
Duration: 12 months or longer
Schedule: 1st Shift (9/80A)
Travel: Yes, 50% travel to Woodland Hills, CA in managing the execution, development, integration and delivery of the Navigation Payload system for the Space Development Agency portfolio of programs.
Responsibilities:
-Direct a team of engineers and coordinate with stakeholders from different sectors and divisions
-Effectively drive program execution toward software delivery schedule
-Leverage software development best practices to right-size the needs of the effort (e.g. configuration management, unit testing).
-Guide process improvement, especially in configuration management, code quality practices, making optimal tasking assignments, and understanding and documenting the technical baseline and architecture.
-Requirements decomposition and reporting of status and metrics to program leadership
-Design, develop, document, test, and debug applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.
-Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product software.
-Determine overall system and user needs; analyze system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepares operating instructions; designs and develops utility programs.
-Ensure software standards are met.
-Design and execute tests to ensure the software's functionality, performance, and reliability
-The software will typically implement complex data analysis, data routing, and/or control systems algorithms.
Qualifications:
-U.S. Citizenship required.
-Active Secret Clearance
-Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related STEM degree with 12+ years of software development experience OR Master’s Degree with 10+ years of software development experience, OR Ph.D. with 8+ years of software development experience
-Prior management experience directing a team of software engineers effectively driving program execution toward software delivery schedule
-Prior experience guiding process improvement, configuration management, code quality practices
-Experience with VxWorks and Workbench
-Strong proficiency in C/C++ programming
-Prior or current corporate experience in a full time role that requires cross-collaboration with engineering teams
-Experience working in a process-oriented environment utilizing agile processes is also desired.
-The selected candidate should also have strong verbal and written communication skills and be comfortable working on large teams with talented engineers from other engineering disciplines.
-Must be comfortable working in a lab environment.
Preferred Qualifications
-Experience in Agile process and Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, BitBucket, etc.)
-Experience with or familiarity with the technical baseline of Pointing, Navigation, and Timing (PNT), and Global Positioning System (GPS).
-Experience across the various life cycle phases including software systems architecture development, requirements definition and analysis, OO development, code and unit test, system integration and test.
-Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.
Location: Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 (On-site)
Position: Software Lead with Active Secret Clearance
Pay Rate: $111 - $125.79/hr. on W2
Duration: 12 months or longer
Schedule: 1st Shift (9/80A)
Travel: Yes, 50% travel to Woodland Hills, CA in managing the execution, development, integration and delivery of the Navigation Payload system for the Space Development Agency portfolio of programs.
Responsibilities:
-Direct a team of engineers and coordinate with stakeholders from different sectors and divisions
-Effectively drive program execution toward software delivery schedule
-Leverage software development best practices to right-size the needs of the effort (e.g. configuration management, unit testing).
-Guide process improvement, especially in configuration management, code quality practices, making optimal tasking assignments, and understanding and documenting the technical baseline and architecture.
-Requirements decomposition and reporting of status and metrics to program leadership
-Design, develop, document, test, and debug applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.
-Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product software.
-Determine overall system and user needs; analyze system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepares operating instructions; designs and develops utility programs.
-Ensure software standards are met.
-Design and execute tests to ensure the software's functionality, performance, and reliability
-The software will typically implement complex data analysis, data routing, and/or control systems algorithms.
Qualifications:
-U.S. Citizenship required.
-Active Secret Clearance
-Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related STEM degree with 12+ years of software development experience OR Master’s Degree with 10+ years of software development experience, OR Ph.D. with 8+ years of software development experience
-Prior management experience directing a team of software engineers effectively driving program execution toward software delivery schedule
-Prior experience guiding process improvement, configuration management, code quality practices
-Experience with VxWorks and Workbench
-Strong proficiency in C/C++ programming
-Prior or current corporate experience in a full time role that requires cross-collaboration with engineering teams
-Experience working in a process-oriented environment utilizing agile processes is also desired.
-The selected candidate should also have strong verbal and written communication skills and be comfortable working on large teams with talented engineers from other engineering disciplines.
-Must be comfortable working in a lab environment.
Preferred Qualifications
-Experience in Agile process and Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, BitBucket, etc.)
-Experience with or familiarity with the technical baseline of Pointing, Navigation, and Timing (PNT), and Global Positioning System (GPS).
-Experience across the various life cycle phases including software systems architecture development, requirements definition and analysis, OO development, code and unit test, system integration and test.
-Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.
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