Years of Experience: 7 years

Education Requirements:Bachelor’s Degree

Position Description: The Software Engineer develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems (e.g., processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, and business management information systems) based upon documented requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements

• Design and code new software or modifies existing software to add new features

• Debug existing software and corrects defects

• Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments

• Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories

• Make recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards

• Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards

• Assist with developing and executing test procedures for software components

• Write or review software and system documentation

• Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards, conferring with users or systems engineers; analyzing systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigating problem areas

• Serve as a team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular project

• 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 database or data repository interfaces/queries

Requirements

Required Skills:

• TS/SCI FS (Preferred); TS/SCI FS Eligible Accepted

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline; 4 additional years of system administration experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

• 7+ years of relevant Java programming experience to include at least 2 years of Java version 1.7+ and development of presentation tiers

• 2+ years of experience with JSP and servlet programming

• 2+ years of experience with JEE and enterprise web application design and development

• 1+ years of experience designing and writing REST-ful applications

• Ability to create and deploy applications in an Apache Tomcat web server

Preferred Skills:

• 1+ years of experience with JavaScript and Spring

• Familiarity with virtualization

• Experience writing Interface Control Documents (ICDs)

• Experience with Microsoft office tools

• 3+ years of experience programming on Linux platforms

• 3+ years of experience using one or more of the following revision control applications: git, Subversion (SVN), CVS, ClearCase

• 1+ years of experience generating and documenting design specifications of system-level components in a UML-based tool (e.g. Confluence/Gliffy)

• 2+ years of experience with test-driven development

• Familiarity with Perl, Oracle, mySQL, and/or PL/SQL

Soft Skills:

• Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work. Follows tasks to their logical conclusion and makes sure that everything has been done to the right standard. Good attention to detail.

• Team Work: Able to enthuse and maintain project interest. Comfortable working both individually and as part of a team. Prepared to challenge ideas within a group in a constructive way.

• Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently to team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context. Excellent active listening skills.

• Quantitative Management: Ability to determine process measures and track to determine process effectiveness and efficiency.

• Problem Solving: Ability to analyze problems and determine root cause, generating alternatives, evaluating and selecting alternatives and implementing solutions.

• Results oriented: Able to drive things forward regardless of personal interest in the task.

Benefits

SES provides a competitive salary and the following benefits:

• Medical

• Dental

• Vision

• AD&D

• STD

• LTD

• Company paid Life Insurance

• 401k with employer contribution

• Paid Time Off