Play a trusted role as a technical leader in helping government sponsors apply life-cycle software engineering methodologies and software development technologies to mission critical systems.
Design technical projects utilizing software engineering skills to help sponsors to integrate, scale, consolidate and modernize software systems for solving national security problems.
Lead teams that provide technical advice and solutions to fully integrate software engineering technologies and tools in the sponsors environments.
Provide technical expertise to design, prototype and maintain environments from end-to-end deployment
Serve as project leader, task leader or subject matter expert on projects with supported government organizations related to security, architecture, and engineering support
Conduct analysis of current government and support contractor implementations of software engineering efforts
Collaborate with MITRE experts in software engineering knowledge management, research, and other efforts to grow MITRE’s body of knowledge in software engineering capabilities and disciplines.
Requirements & Skills:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or similar field and 10 + years applicable experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.
Documented success in defining and leading projects or programs greater than themselves with experience in both task leadership and management.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience (architectural and/or hands-on) with one or more commercial cloud offerings (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc).
Practical application of release, sprint planning, and backlog management with related agile tools (e.g., VersionOne, JIRA).
Expertise in agile software delivery (e.g., Scrum, XP).
Fluent in one or more languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Java, C++ or C#).
Candidate understands full software development life cycle and is fully responsible for delivery – including definition, completion, and technical quality.
The position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site
Preference given to qualified candidates with active clearance.
Master’s degree in computer science or Software Engineering or similar field
Experience in software design and implementation in federal and commercial domains
Experience or expertise in 3 or more of the following areas:
Experience with continuous software integration and deployment
Experience with automated testing
Experience with DevOps methodologies and tools (e.g., Chef, Ansible, Maven, Jenkins, Terraform, Gitlab).
Familiarity with enterprise-level models of agile development (e.g., SAFE)
Experience with containerization platforms (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
