Lead Software Engineer

Are you ready for a rewarding opportunity? We are seeking an ambitious software engineering professional to join our team. The successful candidate will have the ability to take ownership of hard problems and drive to a solution, while working in a team environment and provide leadership for its implementation. This role is for a candidate who is self-motivated and demonstrates a positive approach, strong work ethic, and ownership for their work.

Technical responsibilities include:

Coordinate with other program leads to ensure program completes successfully.

Work in a team environment, throughout the lifecycle of the program, using either Waterfall or Agile methodologies.

Develop software products within all phases of the software lifecycle.

Provide guidance to the project team and ensures project goals are achieved.

Ensure program plans are followed and artifacts needed are created for each phase the delivery cycle.

Actively mentor intermediate and junior engineers

Understand overall knowledge of the software activities for the project.

Experience with task/resource planning, development of BOEs, IMP and IMS planning.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other technical field or equivalent education and work experience

Minimum of 10 years software development experience

Experience supporting military or defense programs.

Demonstrated programming experience in C/C++.

Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management.

Experience with the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Strong critical thinking and logical reasoning skills with the ability to solve issues and predict potential programmatic and technical risks.

Proven track record of building relationships, fostering collaboration and working cross-functionally with multidisciplinary teams.

Must have an active DoD Secret or higher clearance that has been granted or renewed in the last 5 years.

Must be able to obtain and maintain Special Program Access prior to the start of employment.

Flexibility to support occasional overtime, weekend work, shift work and site travel (CONUS)

Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Preferred Skills

Experience using earned value management systems to manage a team's cost and schedule performance.

Experience with Software Change Control, Change Management, and CI/CD tools such as: Atlassian tool suite, GitHub, GitLab, AND/OR Jenkins.

Experience in an Agile/SAFe leadership role (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Release Train Engineer, e.g.)

Experience architecting, designing, modeling, implementing, integrating, and debugging OO C++ software running on Real-Time Operating systems such as: VxWorks, Integrity, AND/OR Real Time Embedded Linux.

Demonstrated mentoring and coaching skills, and excellent 2-way communication skills (upward and downward).

Time management and organizational skills to prioritize across concurrent program and functional responsibilities.

Current Special Access Program (SAP) access.

Security Responsibilities

Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.

Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.

Salary Range: $127,700 - 150,200

Please note: The actual compensation rate is subject to the evaluation of the following factors (but not limited to): the candidate's work experience, qualifications, skills, internal equity, and market

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

CAE USA Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any protected characteristic, including disability and protected veteran status, as defined under federal, state, or local laws.

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