SOFTWARE ENGINEER DEPARTMENT MANAGER
Gibbs & Cox

Job Info

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Overview:

Gibbs & Cox, Inc. is the nation's leading independent maritime services, naval architecture, marine engineering, and design firm. We are seeking a well-qualified individual for a position as the company's Software Engineering Department Manager, based in Arlington, VA.

You must be a United States citizen with a Secret Clearance to qualify.

Responsibilities:

G&C is seeking a Software Engineering Department Manager that is a qualified, energetic leader to lead the software engineering of autonomous systems and associated payload subsystems, and integration of those systems with other manned and unmanned maritime platforms. Current and future projects span concept developed through prototype development and production of small, medium and large unmanned surface vessels.

Personal Attributes:

The successful candidate for Software Engineering Department Manager must be an individual that possesses the following attributes:

• Leadership with great communication skills
• Supervise and coordinate the activities of software engineers as assigned
• Serve as member of a leadership team leading where you will collaborate with Product Managers, Product Owners, agile delivery teams and other software engineers
• Lead all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding, and automated testing within an Agile and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery model.
• Derive and maintain a cohesive program software architecture based on customer requirements, customer interactions, subject matter expert inputs, system architecture artifacts, and business objectives.
• Implement Agile development tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket/Git to manage work and collaborate with your teams.
• Help build, manage and mentor multi-disciplined teams executing Agile and DevSecOps processes using best-of-breed tools
• Work to improve performance metrics through critical planning and execution of development tasks.
• Responsible for coaching and reviewing the work of lower level technical staff.

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 18+ years of highly related experience.
• Capable of leading a team of 30+ software engineers and developers.
• Ability to assess, identify, recruit and retain talent to grow technical expertise on current programs and build talent for future program proposals and execution in a large organization.
• Ability to author, present, and articulate problem sets and associated solution elements in settings supporting customers, business development, program delivery, technical teams, and executives.

Must possess an active SECRET Security clearance

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