Software Engineer Lead

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Date: Dec 6, 2024

Location: San Antonio, TX, Maryland, United States

Company: HII's Mission Technologies division

Requisition Number: 21668 

Required Travel: 0 - 10%

Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Hours Per Week: 40 

Security Clearance: TS/SCI with Poly  

Level of Experience: Mid 

Job Description

The Warfare Systems team of Mission Technologies is seeking a motivated Software Engineer to join our team in San Antionio, TX.  Your expertise will enhance the exciting, innovative capabilities brought forth in our partnership with the Intelligence Community (IC).  The support you will provide to our customer will aid in the dissemination of data to various members within the IC, while working together to serve our country and keep it safe for generations to come.

Essential Job Responsibilities

Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

  • Developing, maintaining, and enhancing software systems 
  • Working individually or as part of a team 
  • Reviewing and testing software components 
  • Resolving software problem reports 
  • Utilizing software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment 
  • Debugging existing software and correcting defects 
  • Designing and coding new software or modifying existing software to add new features 
  • Developing data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories 
  • Performing application testing 
  • Assisting with developing and executing test procedures for software components 
  • Writing or reviewing software and system documentation 
  • Providing recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards 
  • Analyzing user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements 

Minimum Qualifications

  • 9 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field
  • 7 years relevant experience with Masters in related field
  • 4 years relevant experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field
  • High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience.

Active TS/SCI w/ Poly (must possess for consideration) 

Preferred Requirements

Python Experience:

  • Ability to demonstrate solid knowledge of Python and XML
  • Experience with Object Oriented Analysis and Design
  • Experience with build environments such as Gradle or Maven
  • Preferred - Experience with SQL and NoSQL database

 

Data Flow/Data Analytics 

  • Exposure to streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka). Log analysis and General Troubleshooting (tuning and optimization, Search and Indexing Operations, mapping, monitoring) understanding of Elastic Stack (Elastic, Logstash, Beats, Kibana, Fluent, etc.) and knowledge of OpenSearch APIs. 
  • Experience in Business Analytics application, support, and troubleshooting concepts 
  • Experience with Python, Groovy and/or Java 
  • Experience with continuous integration environments, such as Bamboo 

 

DevOps/Automation 

  • Ability to demonstrate solid knowledge of Python, Java and/or Groovy. Knowledge of PowerShell and/or Bash scripting is a plus. 
  • Performing system and subsystem definition, preliminary and detailed design, design implementation, and subsystem and system integration and tests for a system 
  • Develop capabilities to automate deployment of updates and fixes 
  • Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience 
  • Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems 
  • Perform root cause analysis for production errors 

 

Knowledge of RDMS, such as Postgres, desired including:

  • Database design, development and implementation
  • Experience with creating and optimizing queries
  • Experience with data parsing and data flow
  • Development of data structures for the overall architecture of a system accounting for performance and resiliency
  • Knowledge of Java and/or Python preferred
  • Knowledge of database storage and retrieval using Cloud technologies 

This opportunity resides with Cyber & Electronic Warfare, a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. HII works within our nation’s intelligence and cyber operations communities to defend our interests in cyberspace. Our deep expertise in network architecture, software and hardware development, cybersecurity and the electromagnetic environment uniquely enables us to support sensitive missions for federal agency partners.

 

HII is a global engineering and defense technologies provider. With a 135-year history of trusted partnerships in advancing U.S. national security, HII delivers critical capabilities ranging from the most powerful and survivable naval ships ever built, to unmanned systems, ISR and AI/ML analytics. HII leads the industry in mission-driven solutions that support and enable a networked, all-domain force. Headquartered in Virginia, HII’s skilled workforce is 44,000 strong. For more information, please visit: hii.com.

 

HII is committed to cultivating an inclusive company culture to promote collaboration and enhance creativity by hiring a diverse work force. HII is an Equal Opportunity/Vets and Disabled Employer. U.S. Citizenship may be required for certain positions.