Senior Specialist, Software Engineering

About the role

L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers' mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Responsibilities

• Interact directly with engineering team and program management staff to analyze and understand requirements
• Translate requirements into appropriate technical designs
• Effectively present technical designs to software engineering, program management, and other team members
• Implement requirements into software components and applications according to technical design
• Unit and component test software components and applications to ensure quality of deliverables
• Provide input and effort for the technical verification of all technical, functional and corporate requirements prior to delivery of software components and applications
• Investigate and address requirement violations in functional testing and production software as needed
• Track and report status of tasks, deliverables, and issues to software engineering team
• Adhere to corporate processes and standards for all activities and deliverables during all phases of involvement in the software development life cycle
• Effectively manage multiple task assignments
• Mentor less experienced team members as appropriate
• Perform other appropriate duties as requested, directed, or assigned
• Perform all job functions with a positive, professional attitude

Qualifications

• Master's or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• 6 years experience in progressively advanced object oriented commercial or government software development experience.
• 6 years experience in relevant technologies, software development methodologies, and programming languages
• 6 years experience in the principles, practices, and techniques of object-oriented design/development
• 6 years experience in regulatory standards impact on software development
• 6 years experience in the principles, practices, and techniques of software unit, component, and integration testing
• 6 years experience in the principles, practices, and techniques of source code management and defect tracking
• 6 years experience in Agile and Scrum methodologies
• 6 years experience in C# and Visual Studio required (Java experience a potential substitute)
• 6 years experience with WPF/XAML required.
• 6 years experience with Object Oriented development with focus on SOLID principals.
• 6 years experience with UML (Unified Modeling Language) and understand design patters.
• Able to obtain a Secret security clearance
• Travel 10%

Preferred Additional Skills

• Ability to work in a team environment and highly effective at collaboration
• Ability to effectively utilize both written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to identify complex problems and provide multiple solutions
• Ability to understand, create, and communicate complex design specifications
• Ability to quickly and effectively breakdown assignments into work tasks and provide effort and schedule estimates and successfully achieve them
• Ability to use judgment and logic in decision-making considering relative to costs and benefits of potential actions
• Ability to promote a corporate ethics and exhibit a spirit of teamwork and cooperation within the organization
• Ability to understand and utilize UML (Unified Modeling Language)
• Ability to identify and apply design patterns as appropriate.
• Azure DevOps source control (GIT) and pipeline development (YAML).
• TCP/UDP experience is preferred.
• Experience with multithreaded application development.

Physical Demands

• Required to sit for long periods of time
• Infrequent light physical effort required
• Written and verbal communication
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard and mouse
• May require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane

Work Environment

• Work performed in an office environment with people close to each other
• Working with computers, and other computer components
• Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside of normal working hours (evenings and weekends)