Global Software Engineer

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency, is seeking a Global Software Engineer to join our Client's team.

Security Clearance Required: Secret

The Software Engineer's primary responsibility is to work as a member of the Global Track Processing software development team to design, develop, test, and investigate innovative solutions contributing to the Missile Defense program. Non-standard work hours are possible during key events, and a small amount of travel may be required.

The Global Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications program is a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Critical to the mission is the Global Track Processing (GTP) team, which strives to present accurate global situational awareness via raw sensor data to the warfighter.

GTP is seeking a software engineer who will thrive in an environment requiring maintenance and development of Java-based applications heavily reliant on efficient algorithm development & linear algebra. Candidate engineers are eager to tackle difficult problems through collaboration and camaraderie. This engineer jumps at the opportunity to “drag” his team across the finish line and accept, on occasion, to be dragged! Collaboration mandates excellent written and communication skills; well-articulated documentation in the form of clearly documented software, technical memoranda, white papers, software modeling, and technical presentations is part of daily activities.

• The Software Engineer should understand the software development life cycle.
• The Software Engineer should understand object-oriented software development and automated testing.
• The ability to analyze high-level needs and define a structured and logical approach to refine the capability into an integrated set of requirements that lead to a fielded product would be a significant addition.
• The Software Engineer should communicate effectively, clearly present technical approaches and findings, and have experience in writing and implementing project reports, plans, and status. 

GTP software engineer is expected to have the following professional practical experience:

• 3+ years of Java development experience writing
  • unit-testable operational code 
  • and unit tests exercising said code
• 2+ years in a Linux-based (preferably Red Hat / CentOS / Oracle Linux) environment
• 2+ years with GIT in Linux
• 2+ years with Jira and Confluence
• 1+ years of software modeling using UML
• 1+ years writing & presenting technical documentation to audiences ranging from team members to non-technical customers

REQUIRED THEORETICAL EXPERIENCE

• Object-Oriented paradigms
• Software Design Patterns

DESIRED PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE

• The following are desirable but not required experiences
• Use of Eclipse, Matlab, Visio, & Enterprise Architect
• Software design using Systems Modeling Language (SysML)
• Fluent in BaSH (Bourne-Again Shell) or similar scripting
• Automated test-driven & continuous integration development

DESIRED THEORETICAL EXPERIENCE

• Linear algebra
• Agile methodology

Security Clearance Required: Secret

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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