Director Of Software Development - Military veterans preferred

Description

Looking for an opportunity to make an impact?

Unleash your potential at Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customer’s success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

If this sounds like the kind of environment where you can thrive, keep reading!

Varec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, is looking for a Director of Software Development. Varec, Inc. is considered the pioneer of inventory tank gauging instrumentation and offers 93 years of service, tracking over 4,000,000,000 gallons of fuel annually, in supporting of over 3,000 airfields with their fuel management product

Today, Varec is a worldwide leader in fuels management systems for total asset visibility and control, supplying integrated hardware and software solutions to oil and gas, defense and aviation markets. The Varec FuelsManager suite of product solutions has been a longtime standard of major oil companies and the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as aviation tank farm operators and service providers. With its headquarters and manufacturing facility outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Varec also has offices in Virginia, Australia and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.varec.com 

The Director of Software Development will direct application architecture requirements and deployment in cloud and on-perm environments for Varec products and solutions. This position will lead Agile teams to design, develop, deploy and maintain quality applications on schedule and within budget. Responsible for planning, coordinating and overseeing the development/test engineering across the entire suite of Varec applications. The Director of Software Development will manage members of the development, DevOps, technical writing and testing teams to deliver quality products

The Mission, Leidos Civil Group helps modernize infrastructure, systems, and security. We are a trusted partner to both government and highly-regulated commercial customers looking for transformative solutions in mission IT, security, software, engineering, and operations. We work with our customers including the FAA, DOE, NASA, National Science Foundation, Transportation Security Administration, Custom and Border Protection, airports, and electric utilities to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient. Our customers take on the toughest challenges out there, and at times need a helping hand from specialists in their fields. We combine our scale as a Fortune 500 company with the deep technical knowledge of our core capabilities and the expertise of our talented and diverse workforce to deliver mission-centric innovations. For each of these core capabilities, we have developed proven, repeatable processes that help us deliver agile, cost-effective solutions to foster a better world.

The Challenge:

• Responsible for hiring, developing, and training talented, creative and innovative development resources
• Establish and enforce the tools, techniques, principles and practices of the development department
• Foster and maintain highly effective internal partnerships with all departments including IT,  Infrastructure, Product Management, Software Quality Assurance, Commercial and different business units
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development teams for project level architectures and design work
• Translate business requirements into functional service designs and create service models along with supporting technical documentation
• Provide a software development plan that meets the future needs of our customers and markets based on new and innovative techniques and technologies
• Provide business, data, application and technology consulting in pre-feasibility and feasibility discussions with IT team members and business partners
• Execute action items resulting from Root Cause Analysis (RCA) sessions to avoid future production defects
• Identify opportunities to reuse enterprise technology services
• Promote the use of innovative techniques and technologies that will provide benefits to Varec
• Lead the introduction of new technologies as well as leveraging enterprise capabilities
• Perform peer reviews of designs and solution proposals to ensure conformance to current practice and quality of work being generated
• As a senior leader within Varec, embrace and enable the Varec core values ? Promote, plan, communicate, and implement employee engagement activities within and across departments/teams that influence a positive work environment
• Drive differentiation into the organization to create long-term competitive advantage
• Support the long-term growth strategy, vision, and mission
• Achieve or exceed Annual Operating Plan objectives
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned

COMPETENCIES

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and project management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to motivate teams to produce quality materials within tight timeframes and simultaneously manage several projects
• Ability to define, structure and plan work independently
• Proven cross-functional relationship building skills
• Ability to interact effectively with all levels of management
• Pro-active leadership style
• Extensive experience with real-time data application development in oil and gas, manufacturing, or similar industry
• Working knowledge of real-time data architectures, applications, controllers, telemetry, and protocols for industry including SCADA, PLCs, OPC-UA, Modbus, and serial device communications
• The successful candidate will have related multiple years of hands-on experience of supporting Commercial Cloud Services such as AWS and Azure, as well as on-perm customer deployments
• Knowledge of cloud-based production application infrastructure and processes (AWS or Azure, DevOps, micro services, containerization, security, networking, load balancing, replication, disaster recovery, etc.)
• Working knowledge of the design and implementation of application architecture using cloud native and data warehousing principles
• Experience/Working knowledge with C#, XML, HTML, Java, Java Script, React, SQL Server Database, Cassandra, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Istio, Kafka and Spark
• Strong knowledge and experience in Agile development methodologies and in effectively leading Agile development teams
• Strong Background in SecDevOps
• Expereince in Test Engineering strategies and optimizing regression testing tactics
• Working knowledge of Selenium, or Similar, to create a test automation framework
• Understanding of best practices to create and mature CI/CD pipelines, minimize build times, and automate artifact generation
   

What Sets You Apart: (Basic Requirements)

• Bachelors Degree from an accredited college in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience eight plus 8+) years of Software Development experience
• Minimum 8 years of supervisory experience leading development efforts in software development or related position, experience managing medium and large project/development teams
• Experience in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle including but not limited to architecting solutions, designing applications, coding, unit testing and implementing utilizing a variety of tools and technologies.
• Expereince in leading DevOps culture and creating zero-to-one CI/CD pipelines
• Expereince in leading QA Engineering or Test Engineering teams to optimize and economize functional testing, regression testing, integration testing, and performance testing

You Might Also have:

• Masters in Computer Science or other relevant field
• Knowledge for Agile frameworks and implementation of Agile Methodologies to multiple teams in large-scale enterprise change projects & programs. Experience should include coaching and enabling scrum team members.
• Demonstrated understanding of IT infrastructure tools, processes and practices, including Cloud resource provisions, deployment, microservices, and DevOps
• Demonstrated success in navigating various development approaches that include waterfall, hybrid, and agile

We take care of our employees. Leidos seeks the best and the brightest, and in return, we invest in you, with an eye on your future, through career advancement, growth opportunities and continuous improvement via mentoring, formal and informal project management training and assistance with obtaining pertinent certifications. We challenge you to help solve some of the world’s toughest problems, and reward you with a welcoming culture that recognizes the importance of a strong work/life balance, as well as competitive compensation and benefits. We believe that diversity and inclusion make us all better and offer the chance to have fun and make a difference.

Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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