Senior Specialist Software Engineering

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Participate and consistently contribute to planning, design, implementation, verification, deployment, and support activities for custom software components and applications.
• Perform task management activities for other software engineers.
• Manage multiple task assignments effectively.
• Adhere to corporate processes and standards throughout all phases of the software development life cycle.
• Track and report status of tasks, deliverables, and issues to the software engineering team.
• Investigate and address requirement violations in functional testing and production software as needed.
• Provide input and effort for the technical verification of all technical, functional, and corporate requirements prior to delivery of software components and applications.
• Unit and component test software components and applications to ensure quality of deliverables.
• Implement requirements into software components and applications according to technical design.
• Effectively present technical designs to software engineering, program management, and other team members.
• Translate requirements into appropriate technical designs.
• Interact directly with engineering team and program management staff to analyze and understand requirements.

Requirements

• Experience with C# and Visual Studio required (Java experience a potential substitute).
• Strong knowledge of relevant technologies, software development methodologies, and programming languages.
• Strong knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of object-oriented design/development.
• Strong understanding of regulatory standards impact on software development.
• Knowledge of software unit, component, and integration testing principles, practices, and techniques.
• Knowledge of source code management and defect tracking.
• Ability to effectively utilize 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 break down assignments into work tasks and provide effort and schedule estimates.
• Ability to use judgment and logic in decision-making considering costs and benefits.
• Understanding and ability to implement Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Ability to work in a team environment and collaborate effectively.
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant object-oriented software development experience or equivalent experience.

Nice to Have

• Ability to understand and utilize UML (Unified Modeling Language).
• Experience with WPF/XAML.
• Ability to identify and apply design patterns as appropriate.
• Experience with Azure DevOps source control (GIT) and pipeline development (YAML).
• Strong understanding of SOLID principles.
• Experience with multithreaded application development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics with a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience.
• Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.