Software Engineering Specialist

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Summary:

Participate and consistently contribute to planning, design, implementation, verification, deployment, and support activities for custom software components and applications. May perform task management activities for other software engineers.

The Software Engineer, Specialist Level is a seasoned and experienced professional with proficient job area knowledge and practical knowledge of project management, managing projects and processes under general supervision to achieve operational targets with moderate impact on departmental results.

Job Requirements:

• Interact directly with engineering team and program management staff to analyze and understand requirements
• Translate requirements into appropriate technical designs
• Effectively present technical designs to software engineering, program management, and other team members
• Implement requirements into software components and applications according to technical design
• Unit and component test software components and applications to ensure quality of deliverables
• Provide input and effort for the technical verification of all technical, functional and corporate requirements prior to delivery of software components and applications
• Investigate and address requirement violations in functional testing and production software as needed
• Track and report status of tasks, deliverables, and issues to software engineering team
• Adhere to corporate processes and standards for all activities and deliverables during all phases of involvement in the software development life cycle
• Effectively manage multiple task assignments
• Mentor less experienced team members as appropriate
• Ability to acquire a clearance (SECRET), which requires U.S. Citizenship.
• Experience with Object Oriented development with focus on SOLID principles.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience with C# and Visual Studio required (Java experience a potential substitute)
• Proficient knowledge of relevant technologies, software development methodologies, and programming languages
• Proficient knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of object-oriented design/development
• Understanding and ability to implement Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Knowledge and understanding of regulatory standards impact on software development
• Proficient knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of software unit, component, and integration testing
• Proficient knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of source code management and defect tracking
• Ability to identify complex problems and provide multiple solutions
• Ability to understand, create, and communicate complex design specifications
• Ability to quickly and effectively breakdown assignments into work tasks and provide effort and schedule estimates and successfully achieve them
• Ability to use judgment and logic in decision-making considering relative costs and benefits of potential actions
• Ability to promote corporate ethics and exhibit a spirit of teamwork and cooperation within the organization
• Ability to work in a team environment and highly effective at collaboration
• Ability to obtain a Secret security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship

Preferred Skills (beyond required):

• Experience with WPF/XAML and C# development
• A basic understanding of SOLID principles
• Ability to utilize design patterns as appropriate
• Basic understanding of UML (Unified Modeling Language)
• Azure DevOps source control (GIT)
• Prefer a strong understanding of design patterns and UML.
• TCP/UDP experience
• Hardware/Software API development preferred.
• Azure DevOps source control experience and YAML pipeline/release development is a plus.
• Experience with multithreaded application development

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Minimum of 4 years of progressively advanced object-oriented commercial or government software development experience