Vacancy caducado!
Terrific 12+ months contract opportunity in Annapolis, MD for a Software Lead. The role is a combination of technical leadership and oversight, coordinating, preparing, and presenting technical solutions. This role also consists of managing day-to-day tasking and project plans for the Engineering team. This position is key and will be a senior member of the Rail Software Engineering organization.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:- Act as a leader to the software development team. Provide technical guidance for the software group on an assigned project.
- Provide technical leadership and oversight and when necessary, hands-on coding.
- Oversee design, development, testing, and validation of programming code and products.
- Facilitate daily scrums, stand-ups, and meetings to monitor project progress and remove impediments.
- Organize and track SW team activities while providing schedule support and task decomposition.
- Creation and management of user stories and sprints in JIRA.
- Coordinate and collaborate with the Project Manager and other discipline leads.
- Follow and enforce engineering guidelines set in system development methodology.
- Train junior engineers.
- Review code and triage issues.
- Support Department initiatives.
- Conduct activities professionally and in a forthright manner.
- Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) discipline. Advanced degree highly preferred.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience in progressively more challenging positions.
- Software architecture and design skills.
- Knowledge of at least two and an expert in at least one of the following: C, C, Java, Erlang and C#.
- Knowledge of relational databases of at least one of the following: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL
- Proficient in Atlassian tools: JIRA, Confluence, and Bitbucket.
- Proficient in MS Project.