Principal Software Engineer (TS/SCI) Fairfax, VA ref

Principal Software Engineer (TS/SCI) Fairfax, VA

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or a related technical field is required (or equivalent experience), plus a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; agile experience preferred.

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS:

Department of Defense Top Secret/SCI security clearance is required at time of hire. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will:

1. Provide leadership to cross functional software development teams.
2. Lead small technical proposals and contribute to medium sized proposals.
3. Frequently be responsible for leading collaboration activities with senior management and leadership within the company.
4. Perform software requirements analysis, participate in research, design, develop and test software and tools, including development of new work products or enhancing existing applications.
5. Perform technical planning, verification and validation of others' work, cost and risk analysis, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.
6. Apply the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of technical engineering products.
7. Research and analyze data, such as customer design proposals, market trends, state of technology and industry, specifications and manuals to determine feasibility of design or application.
8. Support and develop our technical culture by being engaged, intellectually curious, friendly, motivated to solve complex problems, and inspired to deliver superior user-centered design.
9. Participate in internal reviews of software components and systems.

Programming Skills:

1. Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms.
2. Solid object-oriented programming and software design skills.
3. Proficient in one of the following: Java, C++, C, or JavaScript (using object-oriented techniques).
4. Web Services knowledge such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and Redux.

Candidates should have demonstrated strengths and experience in the following areas:

1. Strong leadership skills suitable for recruiting, leading and managing teams of engineers to solve challenging problems.
2. User Interface development.
3. Computer science theory (e.g., data structures, algorithms, computational complexity).
4. Appreciation for user-centric design.
5. Full use and understanding of software engineering concepts, principles, and theories.
6. Effective communication and attention to detail.
7. Deep exposure to Unix/Linux systems as well as Windows.

Other beneficial common programming patterns/paradigms:

1. Seasoned, experienced professional having a wide range of professional experience.
2. Experience with version control systems.
3. Experience leading software teams using Agile methodologies.
4. Detailed and fully proficient knowledge of technology trends and champions new ideas and product and process improvements.
5. Concurrent programming and building multi-threaded systems.
6. Memory and CPU profiling.
7. Data modeling and writing efficient data access methods.
8. Experience building large-scale mission-critical applications.
9. Experience with distributed systems.
10. Direct-manipulation user interfaces.

PREFERRED DEGREE TYPES AND EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor's degree in software engineering or a related technical field is required (or equivalent experience), plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience.

APPLICATION QUESTIONS:

1. Please tell us about your Systems Software Engineering experience in the IT industry.
2. Please elaborate on your proficiency in Java, C++, C, or JavaScript (using object-oriented techniques).
3. Please elaborate on your exposure to Unix/Linux systems as well as Windows.
4. An active Department of Defense TS SCI security clearance is required at time of hire. Do you have one?
5. What is the candidate’s highest level of education?
6. What is the candidate’s work authorization status?
7. What is the candidate’s desired compensation?
8. Where is the candidate located? If the candidate is not near job location, please explain relocation.
9. Please provide the link to candidate’s Linkedin profile.
10. What is the candidate's current level of security clearance? Please verify if it is active or inactive and provide the date of the last investigation.
11. Has the candidate directly applied for this job or has had their resume presented for this job to our client, GDMS by another recruiter?