Scientist, Software Engineer

Title: Scientist, Software Engineer

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Job-Type: Full Time

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior software related experience

• Must be a US Citizen

• Must have the ability to obtain a security clearance.

 

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or related field

• 12+ years of experience developing software applications with an object-oriented programming language

• Demonstrated ability leading small to medium sized software development teams through all phases of the software development lifecycle

• Broad, extensive and modern knowledge of the software development process and its technologies

• Understanding of software metrics and performance measures

• Experience estimating and justifying size/cost/schedule of a software development effort

• Experience developing and working against a schedule

• Experience with executing throughout the full development life cycle including requirements flow-down and allocation, design, development, test, and sell-off

• Experience with Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.

Roles and Responsibilities: 

  • Drive critical decisions about the high-level structure of a software system (architecture), its main components and their interfaces and interactions

  •  Responsible for guiding software product development through analysis, design, development, testing and integration

  •  May serve in a customer facing IPT lead technical role for software focused discussions

  •  Participate in overall bid strategy discussions, cost estimates, and generation of technical documentation artifacts to support software related proposal efforts

  •  Design software architecture with consideration for full product and product line performance, integration, reliability, usability, maintainability, scalability, etc.

  •  Help define product roadmaps and software quality metrics

  •  Raise level of software functional organization proficiency in DevSecOps, CI/CD, Agile Methodology

  •  Recommend tactics and strategies that directly impact the achievement of overall business or functional results

  •  Propose technical standards, including coding standards, tools, or platforms

  •  Provide input to project schedule, financial and technical goals as appropriate

  •  Analyze and assist in the development of requirements flowed down by Systems Engineering

  •  Oversee and/or participate on a software team to design, document, develop and test software in alignment with a unified architectural vision

  •  Help resolve any disputes/design conflicts and make tradeoffs when necessary, keeping product performance in mind

  •  Identify risks and propose mitigations when necessary

  •  Participate in software design/code reviews

  •  Participate in Integration efforts/Bug fixes/optimization of existing software systems

  •  Participate in estimating efforts for programs

  •  Deliver highly technical messages/presentations communicating at the level of the audience