Senior Software Engineer

Description

Leidos is seeking a candidate to join and lead our high-performing, agile software team and must be able to work well in a distributed, remote team as well as gathering in a simulation system team as needed. Candidate will have current knowledge of simulation technologies, design innovative solutions for customer problems and keep pace with changing simulation industry technology. Good leadership, interpersonal skills, and ability to work in a predetermined schedule and to specific customer needs. Individual will engage cross functionally with other teams, with systems engineers, cyber-security engineers, systems integration, and test personnel to build software developed for delivery to a dynamic, fast-moving program.

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading small teams, writing simulation software in an agile development software environment.
• Will design, code, unit test and demonstrate software that is integrated into a multiple aspects of a larger software framework, that is built, tested, deployed and executed in a simulated/synthetic environment.
• Works in a larger team, assembling different portions of the overall software application.
• Will lead a small group to execute tasks together.
• Will help define and decompose tasks into a sprint backlog for other software engineers to complete.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors in Computer Science or similar degree with 8+ years of software experience.
• Masters in Computer Science or similar degree with 6+ years of software experience.
• 5+ years' experience in development, modification, and maintenance of software simulation systems
• 3+ years' experience in the development of software technical documentation
• 3+ years experience in leadership of teams developing and contributing software components to a simulation application
• C++ and/or Java programming competence
• Working knowledge of Atlassian Tools (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket), Gitlab, Ansible and Jenkins for software development & deployment activities
• Candidate must be a US citizen and have the ability to obtain a Secret DoD Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in product line development
• Experience with Air Force, Army and/or USMC training systems development
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Certification

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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