Senior Principal Software Engineer – (Secret Clearance Preferred – Onsite Required)

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Secret

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Software Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

C++ STL, Data ETL, Data Warehouse, Linux Bash, Multithreaded Application Development

Certifications:

None

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

SOFTWARE ENGINEER SR PRINCIPAL

GDIT is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our team.

This challenging and interesting software engineering and development position is a chance to participate in the development and operation of a high-performance big data system, and join a longstanding, stable program consisting of a team of individuals using defined Agile software principles and practices.

As a Senior Principal Software Engineer, you will lead and perform software requirements analysis, design, development, testing, maintenance and participate in research of an operational big data system. The Senior Principal Software Engineer focuses on proficiency and quality of software and application development and programming to deliver solutions to complex problems. You will tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients.  Additionally, the Senior Principal Software Engineer may mentor and coach other software engineers.

US Citizenship is required. DoW active Secret clearance is preferred. If candidate does not have an active clearance, GDIT will sponsor the clearance upon contingent offer. The work must be performed onsite (no remote work).

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your engineering expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The Software Engineer Sr Principal must have:

• Demonstrated understanding and technical expertise in applied software engineering concepts, principles and applications

• Experience with database technologies, SQL, ETL, indexing and performance including contextual data

• In-depth understanding of object-oriented and functional programming, design patterns, data structures and algorithms

• Proven ability to create high performance applications using Modern C++ (versions 11/14/17/20) applied in a Linux development environment

• Proven experience in scripting languages including Bash, Ruby and Python

• Experience with data modeling and NoSQL database technologies such as MongoDB

• Experience with parallel and multi-threaded programming and multi-process applications

• Proven experience with very large databases/big data/enterprise data warehouses

• Experience with memory architectures (NUMA) and caching

• Expertise in applying techniques for improving performance such as profiling, avoiding memory allocation/de-allocation, parallelization and algorithms

• Required Experience: 10+ years of related experience

Preferred Skills:

• Education: Bachelor's (4 year) degree in software engineering or related technical field OR a minimum of 14 years of equivalent work experience

• Experience with Azure Cloud development

What sets you apart:

• Ability to interact and collaborate effectively with project teams, managers, and end users

• Maintain commitment to ongoing professional development

• Be able to grasp and apply new information quickly and handle increasing responsibilities with growing complexity

• Be a creative and innovative thinker with the ability to multi-task

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Onsite

Work Location:

USA VA Oakton

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.