Manager Software Engineering 2

About the role

The Software Engineering Manager – Level 2 position is within the Space Systems Central Engineering SW and Electronics Organization supporting the Deep Space Advance Radar Capability (DARC) program. The selected individual will manage up to 15 direct reports and serve as an individual contributor, software product owner, or software team lead within the DARC program.

Responsibilities

• Directly contribute to the software development, integration, testing, sustainment, and process improvement efforts on the DARC program
• Collaborate with cross-functional discipline leads and program management to develop, plan, and execute current and future project efforts of the program
• Manage and support staff career development
• Ensure software engineers have the proper tools, training, and assignments required to meet program objectives
• Support proposal efforts and develop software engineering labor estimates
• Be responsible for hiring and staffing actions
• Employee performance management
• Brief program and customer leadership
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 10 years of professional experience in a STEM field – OR – Master’s degree with 8 years of professional experience in a STEM field.
• Requires an active U.S. Government Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope.
• Recent software development experience within microservice based architectures
• Expert in Agile software development principles
• Fluent in a variety of software programming languages (i.e., Java, Java Script, C++, Python)
• Ability to deploy and debug code
• Experience across the entire software product life cycle
• Atlassian Tool Set (JIRA, Confluence)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Top-Secret Clearance
• Computer Science or Computer Engineering degree
• Current or previous functional management experience
• Experience with proposal efforts and software labor estimating
• Experience developing software development on RADAR programs
• Radar Signal Processing knowledge and algorithm implementation
• Familiar with DevSecOps principles
• Familiar with real-time processing
• Familiar with software cybersecurity compliance
• Software development within a RedHat Linux environment
• MBSE principals

Qualifications

• Master’s degree with 8 years of professional experience in a STEM field
• Bachelor’s degree with 10 years of professional experience in a STEM field