Location: Hanover, MD
All work is on-site. This is not a hybrid or remote position.
Mission: Analyze, debug and integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments.
Clearance: Active Top Secret SCI with polygraph.
Certifications: None.
Requirements:- Fourteen (14) years experience as a Software Engineer (SWE), in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
Education and Required Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
- If no degree: four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
Responsibilities:- Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements.
- Debug existing software and correct defects.
- Provide recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards.
- Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features.
- Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments.
- Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories.
- Write or review software and system documentation.
- Serve as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular project.
- Design or implement complex database or data repository interfaces/queries.
- Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards.
- Assist with developing and executing test procedures for software components.
- Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards, confer with users or system engineers; analyze systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigate problem areas.
- 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 algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints; Perform quality control on team products.
- Implement recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards.
- Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project.
- Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
- Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure operational specifications are met.
BENEFITS - Full-time Employees- 401K with employer contribution. Fully vested at 1 year anniversary.
- Five (5) weeks comprehensive annual leave (25 workdays).
- Additional leave can be earned in lieu of overtime.
- 11 Paid Federal Government Holidays.
- Up to $5,000 annually for individually tailored education / training program.
- All education plans must be pre-approved by Advantage Engineering management.
- Life Insurance at 1x annual salary with employee option to purchase additional coverage for self and dependents.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- We contribute a generous portion towards the cost of monthly medical plans for any of the three medical, 1 dental and 1 vision plan provided by CareFirst.
- All employees are eligible to earn generous incentives and performance bonuses.
