Lead Software Engineer

Leidos has a new and exciting opportunity for a Lead Software Engineer in our Intel Sectors Cyber & Analytics Business Area (CABA). Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering Computer Network Operations (CNO) Mission Software Analytical Methods and Modeling Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Cryptographic Key Management. At Leidos we offer competitive benefits including Paid Time Off 11 paid Holidays 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting Flexible Schedules Discounted Stock Purchase Plans Technical Upskilling Education and Training Support Parental Paid Leave and much more. Join us and make a difference in National Security!

Job Summary

Leidos is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join a high-impact multi-agency program serving the United States Space Force (USSF) / Space Systems Command (SSC) the United States Air Force (USAF) and other critical mission stakeholders. The selected individual will play key role in enhancing testing and deploying a large-scale Satellite Communications (SATCOM) system to an existing infrastructure. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in public key infrastructure (PKI) and key management excels at complex problem solving and has a strong record of delivering results as part of a high-performing team in a fast-paced Agile Development environment. This position offers a unique opportunity to enhance the resilience and cybersecurity of mission-critical communications that protect our nation.

• This position is based near Columbia Maryland with possible alternative duty locations in San Diego California Englewood Colorado or Huntsville Alabama. Relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates.

Primary Responsibilities:

The Lead Software Engineer will provide hands-on support and leadership to guide development teams and drive the technical execution of a complex software development and integration this role he/she will architect and implement advanced software solutions while ensuring the codebase remains secure efficient and consistently high quality. The ideal candidate will quickly come up to speed with the existing system establish technical standards and best practices mentor and guide software engineers through regular code reviews and coaching and lead the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) through deployment to ensure on-time in-scope delivery. The Lead Software Engineer will serve as a senior technical resource for debugging and resolving critical production issues and will proactively recommend and implement improvements to both system architecture and development processes.

Responsibilities also include:

• Leading and participating in Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups Sprint Planning Program Increment (PI) Planning and related team events.

• Analyzing and interpreting complex system requirements to inform software design and implementation.

• Appling sound software engineering principles to produce code that is modifiable efficient reliable understandable fault tolerant and reusable.

• Providing software process management and control throughout the coding portion of the software development lifecycle.

• Promoting code reuse and cross-program collaboration by creating common functions and shared actions for developers and testers reducing maintenance costs.

• Engineering authoring optimizing and documenting automation scripts in a development environment and deploy them to test and production benches.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in a technical discipline and 12 years of related experience. Additional experience may be substituted for a degree.

• Must have at least 10 years of experience leading multiple software development teams while also contributing as a hands-on developer.

• Must have extensive demonstrated experience with Java.

• Must have experience or familiarity with multiple Java frameworks: Spring to include Boot and Data Jackson Jersey Swing JavaFX.

• Must have experience or familiarity with multiple languages such as Javascript C/C Structured Query Language (SQL).

• Must have experience with development IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) such as Eclipse Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Rhapsody WebStorm.

• Must have experience with databases such as Oracle PostgreSQL SQL Server.

• Must have experience with Web Application User Interface Development knowledge of databases and structures Spring Framework and/or experience working with AngularJS JSON HTML XML XSLT.

• Must have experience with software source control and configuration management tools.

• Must have experience developing on Windows operating systems.

• Must have documented professional experience with web services.

• Must have a strong understanding of sound software development principles and practices.

• Must have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective working relationships and interface professionally with peers and leadership including developers engineers testers customer points of contact and company management.

Clearance Needed:

U.S. Citizenship with an Active or Current TS/SCI with Polygraph required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with or in military Satellite Communications (SATCOM) organizations such as United States Air Force (USAF) United States Space Force (USSF) or another Agency.

• Experience working with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)/ key management programs and technologies.

• Experience with the following: SQL application servers (Tomcat WebLogic JBoss) Spring framework scripting.

• Certified Scrum Master.

• Experience or familiarity with multiple of the following technologies: XML/XSD/SOAP/WSDL/XSLT REST JSON YAML Containers (Docker Podman Kubernetes OpenShift).

• Experience with Javascript frameworks: AngularJS Bootstrap JQuery.

• Experience with Testing and Mocking frameworks: JUnit Jupiter Mockito Jasmine Karma Cucumber Unified Functional Tester (UFT) Selenium FITNesse.

• Experience with build tools: Maven CMake RPM Jenkins Nexus NPM.

• Experience developing on Linux operating systems.

• Experience with technologies underlying cryptographic systems (symmetric and asymmetric cryptography ASN.1 encoding XML canonicalization digital signatures cryptographic message syntax etc.).

• Experience with high level requirements management including requirements decomposition secure systems engineering and development trade-off analysis interface control and testing and continuous integration.

• Experience in software development on Agile teams using Agile Developer practices such as Pair Programming Test Driven Development (TDD) Refactoring and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD).

• Experience with Behavior Driven Development (BDD).

• Experience with Secure Software development (i.e. Layer 7 Policy).

• Experience with the Scrum Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology SAFe Agilest Certification or experience as a member of an Agile team.

At Leidos the opportunities are boundless. We challenge our staff with interesting assignments that allow them to thrive professionally and personally. For us helping you grow your career is good business. We look forward to learning more about you apply today.

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Pay Range:

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.