ASRC Federal is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to support the Prime NASA contract at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA, and provide technical leadership to ensure contract compliance and implementation of best practices for quality procedures.
Requirements
- BS degree, 10+ years of experience overseeing federal contracts/work in an IT environment.
- Experience with day-to-day oversight of IT professionals, software engineers, systems engineers, and task managers involved in designing, integrating, testing, documenting and implementing systems in an R&D environment.
- Demonstrates proven skill sets, including in-depth technical knowledge of software development life cycle methodologies.
- Technical project management experience with initiating, planning, execution, monitoring and control and closure of technical projects.
- Direct experience in coding, scripting and software development on multiple platforms.
- In-depth understanding of software development, testing, validation and best practices to meet customer requirements and Agency standards.
- Familiarity with the Agency’s standards for software development, IT security and configuration standards.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership to 20 to 40 software engineers, systems administrators and subject matter experts to work on multiple tasks in the Human Systems Integration Division.
- Work with the Task Requestor (TR) researchers to define, organize projects and workloads within budget and within scheduled guidelines.
- Assist the Task Requestor and TH Division management to define and to establish budgets, cost estimates, forecasts, manpower estimates, equipment and supply needs for their assigned area of responsibility.
- Provide technical oversight to ensure technical performance, contract compliance and implementation of best practices for quality procedures across all assigned tasks.
- Leverage Agency and contract resources to improve group performance.
- Provide in-depth technical guidance for platforms and knowledge for coding, application development, testing, and operating system support in a dynamic R&D environment.
- Demonstrate a technical understanding of the Agency’s standards as set by the Agency’s Cybersecurity Standards and Engineering Team (CSET).
Other
- Onsite presence at ARC is required.
- Must be a US Citizen.
- Demonstrates excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to work with customers, guiding them through task order development and execution.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work with all levels of technical and research staff and customers.
