Scientist, Software Engineer UT

Job Title : Scientist, Software Engineer

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Job Location : Salt Lake City, UT

Job Code : 15786

Work Schedule : 9x80

Essential Functions :

Drive critical decisions about the high-level structure of a software system (architecture), its main components and their interfaces and interactions

Responsible for guiding software product development through analysis, design, development, testing and integration

May serve in a customer facing IPT lead technical role for software focused discussions

Participate in overall bid strategy discussions, cost estimates, and generation of technical documentation artifacts to support software related proposal efforts

Design software architecture with consideration for full product and product line performance, integration, reliability, usability, maintainability, scalability, etc.

Help define product roadmaps and software quality metrics

Raise level of software functional organization proficiency in DevSecOps, CI / CD, Agile Methodology

Recommend tactics and strategies that directly impact the achievement of overall business or functional results

Propose technical standards, including coding standards, tools, or platforms

Provide input to project schedule, financial and technical goals as appropriate

Analyze and assist in the development of requirements flowed down by Systems Engineering

Oversee and / or participate on a software team to design, document, develop and test software in alignment with a unified architectural vision

Help resolve any disputes / design conflicts and make tradeoffs when necessary keeping product performance in mind

Identify risks and propose mitigations when necessary

Participate in software design / code reviews

Participate in Integration efforts / Bug fixes / optimization of existing software systems

Participate in estimating efforts for programs

Deliver highly technical messages / presentations communicating at the level of the audience

Basic Qualifications :

Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior software related experience

Preferred Additional Skills :

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or related field

12+ years of experience developing software applications with an object-oriented programming language

Demonstrated ability leading small to medium sized software development teams through all phases of the software development lifecycle

Broad, extensive and modern knowledge of the software development process and its technologies

Understanding of software metrics and performance measures

Experience estimating and justifying size / cost / schedule of a software development effort

Experience developing and working against a schedule

Experience with executing throughout the full development life cycle including requirements flow-down and allocation, design, development, test, and sell-off

Experience with Agile and Waterfall Methodologies