Senior Principal Software Engineer (Architect)

Werfen • Bedford, MA

55d • $200,000 - $220,000

About The Position

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

Requirements

• Leadership, Management, Team, Individual, etc (for e.g.: holds people accountable, teamwork, delegation, communication, impact and influencing, etc)
• 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.
• 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
• English

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k plan retirement benefits with an employer match
• paid vacation and sick leave
• eligible for participation in a commission plan and our management, and select professional roles, are eligible for a performance-based bonus.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees