Senior Software Engineer

Are you ready to work on projects that can potentially change the world? Join us at Leidos, where your most important work is ahead! You will enjoy great benefits such as paid time off (PTO), flexible schedules, discounted stock purchase plans, unlimited education and training support, parental paid leave and more! If this sounds like a place you can thrive, keep reading!

The Leidos National Security Sector has a career opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer at our Leidos facility in Columbia, MD. Join a collaborative team of engineers that will mentor you and foster career growth!

Program Summary: 
Our program is a large, multi-year contract for the development, integration, deployment, and sustainment of large, collection systems. The work that's being done on this Leidos-led, prime contract is extremely important to the government and offers its team members the opportunity to work autonomously and explore new technologies. Join a tremendous technical team solving hard problems with true mission relevance on emerging technologies. 

Job Summary:

As a Senior Software Engineer you will develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse 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. In this role you will be responsible for hardware and software integration, infrastructure, and provisioning.

Additional duties:

· Review and test software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results.

· Resolve software problem reports. Utilize software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment.

· Provide specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of Commercial Off-the-shelf (COTS)/Government Off-the-shelf (GOTS) in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.

· Ability to perform full lifecycle support to the customer on complex data systems and networks.

· Administration/maintenance experience

· Python Experience

· Some knowledge of SIGINT systems and dataflows

· Provide solutions to the customer applying expertise with systems engineering and networks/components to support.

· Provide technical guidance to the customer in relation to SIGINT systems.

· Ability to perform in a team environment.

· Candidates possessing system administration and/or network engineering backgrounds will be considered if they have the above skillset.

Security Clearance requirement:

· Must possess active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance to be considered for this role.

Basic Qualifications:

· Fourteen (14) years' experience as a Software Engineer, in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity

· Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline from an accredited college or university.

· Four (4) years of additional Software engineering experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

· Self-Motivated, problem solver

 Preferred Qualifications:      

· Ability to perform full lifecycle support to the customer on complex data systems and networks.

· Administration/maintenance experience

· Experience with the follow