Position Summary:

Under minimal supervision, leads software development activities including software requirements, architecture, design, implementation, and integration.

Key Accountabilities

Essential Functions:

•  Provides software technical leadership on a software development team. This includes participating in requirements review, design reviews, code reviews, test case reviews, and team meetings.
• Participate as an active member on a project development team: This includes requirements change control, defect management, risk analysis, and release management.
• Creates/Maintains software requirement/functional specifications.
• Creates/Maintains software architecture documentation.
• Creates/Maintains software (component) design documentation.
• Creates/Maintains software source code that adheres to design documentation.
• Performs unit testing and/or code reviews as per project policy.
• Performs integration testing to ensure software functions within application and with electrical and mechanical devices.
• Evaluates, investigates, and implements fixes to assigned software defects.
• Evaluates, investigates, and implements assigned software change proposals.
• Provides level of effort for assigned software activities
• Tracks personal estimates over time in order to improve accuracy.
• Follows project and corporate software plans, standards, and procedures to perform software development

Management:

• Creates/Maintains software project plans.
• Creates/Maintains software configuration management plans.
• Coordinates, schedules and supervises software developers for a project

Technical:

• Brings new software technologies into the company.
• Creates/Maintains applications (utilities) for the project to improve team efficiency, such as hardware control for other engineering disciplines or automated data analyzers for software test.
• Must have the ability to handle many software components and take ownership for a large percentage of the code base.
• Must have the ability to take ownership for high complexity implementations.
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Budget Managed (if applicable):

• N/A

Internal Networking/Key Relationships:

• TBD based on departmental/project needs

Skills & Capabilities:

• Leadership, Management, Team, Individual, etc (for e.g.: holds people accountable, teamwork, delegation, communication, impact and influencing, etc) 
• Consult dictionary of competencies on Manager's Database Ability to administer software engineering tools: configuration management, requirements management, and defect management.
• Ability to operate instrumentation.
• Possesses strong written and oral communications skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment of software developers and testers.

Min Knowledge & Experience required for the position:

• Bachelor's Degree plus a minimum of 17 years of related experience or Master's Degree plus a minimum of 15 years of related experience or waiver based on experience.
• Degree should be in a technical discipline such as Chemistry, Math, Physics, Engineering, or Computer Science. 
• Proficient in code languages (Assembly, C, C++, Java, C#, .NET, etc.) found in product development.
• Proficiency with a personal computer and software packages
• Language: English

International Mobility: Required: No

Travel requirements: 

• <5 % of time