Eqlipse Technologies is looking for a Senior Principal Software Engineer who will focus on research and development, technology evaluation, and the creativity piece of agile software development on our prime contract. Eqlipse's team seeks problem solvers, innovators, technologists, and operators looking to remain at the forefront of driving meaningful change and make an enduring impact on the national security mission. As a member of the Eqlipse team your work will align the most innovative solutions to evolve and transform how our customers accomplish their most complex challenges. 

As a Senior Principal Software Engineer, you will work in a highly experienced agile team solving critical R&D challenges, while engaging in experiments to develop and deliver innovative solutions for our customer. Functional themes for the effort include data ingest/normalization, filtering/selection, enrichment, machine learning, query federation, cross-domain capabilities, alerting, and many more.

 

A typical day in this role may require you to:

• Design, implement, deploy, and maintain Java based solutions using common standards and frameworks for mission-critical applications.
• Conduct software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging.
• Document software and ensure that technical documentation (i.e. configuration guides, install guides) meet requirements.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• Work in an Agile development environment.
• Analyzing user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements.
• Debug existing software and correct defects.
• Provide recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards.
• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features.
• Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments.
• Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories.
• Write or review software and system documentation.
• Serve as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular project.
• Design or implement complex database or data repository interfaces/queries.
• Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards.
• Assist with developing and executing test procedures for software components.
• Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards, confer with users or system engineers; analyze systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigate problem areas.
• Modify existing software to correct errors, to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance.
• Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.
• Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints; Perform quality control on team products.
• Implement recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards.
• Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project.
• Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
• Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure operational specifications are met.
• Recommend new technologies and processes for complex software projects.
• Serve as the technical lead of multiple software development teams.
• Select the software development process in coordination with the customer and system engineering.
• Ensure quality control of all developed and modified software.
• Delegate programming and testing responsibilities to one or more teams and monitor their performance.

• Twenty (20) years experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Strong implementation skills with Core Java, Spring Boot, Object Oriented Programming concepts and patterns.
• Experience in SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) that includes Requirements Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, Implementation, Maintenance with the Agile Methodology.
• Proficiency and comfort using multiple frameworks (e.g. Spark, Hadoop, Angular).

Nice to Have's:

• Experience in API development (e.g. Swagger).
• Good understanding of Software project management tools (Maven, JIRA, Confluence).
• Strong Python scripting skills are desirable.
• Experience with Kubernetes to deploy, scale, load balance and manage Docker containers is a plus.
• Skills around provisioning of infrastructure (cloud or otherwise) in support of prototyping and development is desired.

TS/SCI with Poly

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