Specialist Software Engineer

About the position

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers' mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do. L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers' mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to planning, design, implementation, verification, deployment, and support activities for custom software components and applications.
• Provide advanced technical, logical, and problem-solving expertise to help create innovative software solutions.
• May perform task management activities for other software engineers.
• Interact directly with engineering team and program management staff to analyze requirements and provide insights and recommendations based on technical subject matter expertise.
• Translate requirements into optimal technical designs.
• Effectively present technical designs to software engineering, program management, and other team members.
• Implement requirements into software components and applications according to technical design.
• Unit and component test software components and applications to ensure quality of deliverables.
• Provide direction, input and effort toward the technical verification of all technical, functional and corporate requirements prior to delivery of software components and applications.
• Investigate and address technically difficult requirement violations in functional testing and production software as needed.
• Track and report status of tasks, deliverables, and issues to software engineering team.
• Help ensure team adherence to corporate processes and standards for all activities and deliverables during all phases of involvement in the software development life cycle.
• Identify innovations and lessons learned within the software engineering team to maximize quality and productivity.
• Manage multiple task assignments and other corporate priorities.
• Mentor all members of Scrum team as needed.
• Perform all job functions with a positive, professional attitude.

Requirements

• Knowledge of relevant technologies, software development methodologies, and programming languages.
• Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of object-oriented design/development in a real-time environment.
• Understanding of regulatory standards impact on software development.
• Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of software unit, component, and integration testing.
• Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of source code management and defect tracking.
• Ability to effectively utilize both written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to identify complex problems and provide multiple solutions.
• Ability to understand, create, and communicate complex design specifications.
• Ability to quickly and effectively breakdown assignments into work tasks and provide effort and schedule estimates and successfully achieve them.
• Ability to use judgment and logic in decision-making considering relative to costs and benefits of potential actions.
• Ability to promote a corporate ethics and exhibit a spirit of teamwork and cooperation within the organization.
• Understanding and ability to implement Agile and Scrum methodologies, valuing procedures principles.
• Ability to work in a team environment and highly effective at collaboration.
• Ability to work in Version 1.
• Experience with C# and Visual Studio required (Java experience a potential substitute).
• Ability to obtain a Secret security clearance, which requires US citizenship.

Nice-to-haves

• Ability to understand and utilize UML (Unified Modeling Language).
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to a changing environment.
• Strong presentation skills.

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Drug-free workplace.
• Pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks.