Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a Software Engineer to join our team at our client’s site in Colorado Springs, CO.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, or related field from an accredited college, with 9 years of professional experience; or 6 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree
• The successful candidate must have a demonstrated ability to lead a team of high-performing individuals across a multi-site, multi-discipline organization
• Ability to analyze high-level needs and through a structured and logical approach refine the need into an evolving architecture that leads to a fielded product
• Excellent communications skills required (written and oral)
• Able to communicate effectively and clearly present technical approaches and findings
• Able to write and implement engineering plans within a project
• Proven interaction in a team environment a must
• Previous experience should demonstrate the technical skills and position responsibilities cited here
• Ideally, the candidate will have previously architected automation pipelines to enable effective development within environments with rapidly changing requirements, design challenges which require novel solutions, fast-paced activities, and tight deadlines
• The successful candidate must possess a substantial understanding of system software design and development, Java development, Object-Oriented development patterns, principles and implementation, Service Oriented Architecture development principles and implementation, software architecture and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)
• The candidate must have demonstrated leadership skills over software projects

The candidate should have an understanding of and possess demonstrable skills including:

• The ability to develop and refactor Java code for reusability, readability, and maintainability in an object-oriented codebase
• The ability to understand and decompose new system capabilities into a series of components and requirements to support verification and validation testing of software components
• The ability to generate detailed impact analyses of proposed baseline changes
• The ability to extract data to support analysis requirements and document baseline changes in a digital twin model
• The ability to generate procedures that test functionality
• The ability to apply Agile and Lean Product Development principles as well as training others through a DevOps-type environment
• The background should include all aspects of the software development life cycle
• Experience with Enterprise Architect, DoDAF, VMware, Linux, and windows operating systems, Git, Ansible, JIRA, Confluence and other open-source development tools
• Candidates must have experience working in an integrated team environment with other systems, software, and specialty engineers to develop solutions

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, or related field from an accredited college, with 9 years of professional experience; or 6 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.
• Java
• CI/CD
• Linux

Pluses:

• Git
• Ansible
• Jira

Security Clearance Required: Active Secret clearance

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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