Senior Principal Software Engineer (Architect)

Werfen • Bedford, MA

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About The Position

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

Requirements

• 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.
• Strong written and oral communications skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment of software developers and testers.

Responsibilities

• Provides software technical leadership on a software development team, participating in requirements review, design reviews, code reviews, test case reviews, and team meetings.
• Participates as an active member on a project development team, including requirements change control, defect management, risk analysis, and release management.
• Creates and maintains software requirement/functional specifications.
• Creates and maintains software architecture documentation.
• Creates and maintains software (component) design documentation.
• Creates and 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 and tracks personal estimates over time to improve accuracy.
• Follows project and corporate software plans, standards, and procedures to perform software development.
• Creates and maintains software project plans and software configuration management plans.
• Coordinates, schedules, and supervises software developers for a project.
• Brings new software technologies into the company.
• Creates and 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.
• Handles many software components and takes ownership for a large percentage of the code base.
• Takes ownership for high complexity implementations.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees