Principal Software Engineer

4 weeks ago


Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States Arka Service Full time
Job Description

As a Principal Software Engineer at ARKA Group L.P., you will be responsible for leading technical direction and oversight, including requirement decomposition into features and epics for development. This role will offer some work from home flexibility and require up to 20% travel.

You will be in a key role to define the "what" aspects of what the system will do, fostering customer intimacy to ensure full understanding of the customer's needs and working with the chief architect to realize that vision.

We are looking for someone who is customer mission-focused and passionate about providing technical leadership in software architecture and design of complex government systems.

This candidate will be joining our team of distributed engineers to help shape the development and delivery of custom applications and advanced R&D solutions for our customers.

In addition, you'll have the opportunity to grow and hone your skills with other talented members at ARKA.

Responsibilities:
  • Leading engineering teams in all aspects of program development to achieve program and technical success through the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Continuously applying technical knowledge to determine and set technical objectives to analyze, investigate, and resolve advanced engineering problems
  • Chairing all engineering boards on program
  • Evaluating the integration of the engineering solution development, documentation, and deployment to ensure compliance with program statement of work in terms of content and schedule
  • Communicating engineering status, risks, or issues involving system performance, availability, or security to program leadership and the customer
  • Holding technical exchange meetings with government customers to brief engineering design for government review and approval mechanisms
Basic Qualifications:
  • Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance
  • Prior experience as a Principal Engineer, Associate Principal Engineer, or proven track record of providing technical leadership for teams throughout the whole software development lifecycle and transitioning capabilities into a classified government operational environment
  • Effective cross-organizational communicator with the ability to work well on a small team in a fast-paced environment that includes the ability to multi-task across efforts and still ensure program milestones and deadlines are met
  • Proven track record of leading agile software and systems engineering efforts across the entire lifecycle including operational analysis, requirements generation, design, configuration and integration, testing, requirement verification and demonstration with the end user and customer
  • Ability to perform in-depth system engineering activities and then translate those into actionable software development concepts
  • Proven track record of successfully deploying new capabilities into a classified government operational environment
  • Proven track record of supporting and coordinating factory test support of Enterprise Test activities and delivery of complex government systems: Factory Acceptance Test (FAT), Site Acceptance Test (SAT), Enterprise Integration Test (EIT)
  • Experience chairing various engineering review boards: Engineering Review Board (ERB), Discrepancy Review Board (DRB), Risk & Opportunity Management Board (ROMB)
  • Demonstrated experience working projects across dispersed organizations and geographical locations
  • Demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills and engagement with virtual teams
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Demonstrated business acumen and ability to balance technical requirements with business needs
  • Familiarity with software development in AWS, AZURE, or a similar cloud and architecture concepts that dedicate those system designs and architecture
  • Familiarity with cloud services for a Kubernetes software deployment and management solution, virtual machine management, object management, serverless function management, etc.
  • Experience in software application deployment, virtualization, and containerization
  • Experience with any of the following concepts: Satellite communication planning for both individual satellite scenarios and constellations, SIGINT and GEOINT data processing, Satellite command and control / C2, Satellite tasking for GEOINT / SIGINT collection concepts, Advanced mission planning for satellite base operations and payload operation / integration layers


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