Senior Programmer – Alexandria

C3i Protect with NGMSA Job Description

As a Seniors of the Software Engineering, perform diverse work tasks to develop a complex software PSIM system. Independently support technical solutions to complex problems throughout a new product development cycle involving integration with third-party systems. 

Responsibilities typically include: 

• Contribute to and influence efforts of a development team towards defining and achieving project deliverables, keeping in mind the guiding principles and the Software development process
• Customer Focus, Sense of Urgency, Performance to schedule and Quality
• Directly apply technical skills to tasks involving complex features
• Use proven software design techniques, procedures, and criteria to complete a sequence of related engineering tasks (i.e., investigate, design, develop, test) following NGSMA’s quality guidelines
• Participate in creation reviews of documents, designs, code, test cases, and user documentation
• Perform unit or functional testing of developed software to ensure correct operation per functional requirements and compatibility with other components in the system
• Contribute to software development capability improvement by keeping abreast of current trends in the areas of software development practices, technology utilization, and development tools
• Effectively team with others through mutually supportive professional relationships, open and direct communications, honesty, and respect
• Able to cope with and leverage personality differences and differences of opinion

As a Senior person, the employee:

• Does due diligence as far as analysis and design of any projects they undertake
• Owns technological solutions to implement designs made for our customers, including:
  • Content management
  • Content publication, web hosting
  • Translation and localization management
  • Automation of repetitive tasks
  • Tooling for contributors
• Owns solutions to support business strategy and service delivery, including:
  • Manages workflows and set up for new projects
  • Security, both internal and on customer projects
  • Reporting, internal and to customers
  • Automation in all areas
  • Platforms we deliver to customers, e.g., Vodafone, Resilient and similar future solutions
  • Tech stack: Jenkins, repositories, publishing, testing
  • Tech X, the internal support team
  • Use Project Management Tools for Software Development
• Creates and implements a short and long-term strategy in terms of technological growth
• Leads the implementation and support of technical solutions
• Works with other leaders to deliver services within the project estimated time.
• Ensures that NGMSA staff have the necessary software and that it is up to date
• Ensures team follow processes and proposes process improvements where necessary
• Participates in creating new products and services where technology is concerned

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or relevant equivalent experience

Preferred Skills:

• Experience managing projects that require Microservice development and working with API management tools
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; Data driven and results-oriented
• Communication skills and experience working with technical and business management teams
  Organizational and coordination skills along with multi-tasking capabilities to get things done in an environment
• Ability to motivate and focus a collaboration to reach challenging goals
• Interpersonal skills, including relationship building and collaboration within a diverse, cross-functional team
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and recommendations
• Demonstrated experience in defining and measuring team success via data-driven metrics & reporting
• Experience delivering with an agile methodology is a must
• Experience in building and launching a new product or service from the ground up and/or experience with external-facing production systems preferred
• Works with IT leaders to develop overall IT strategy in alignment with business strategy
• Attracts, develops, and retains a high-performing and diverse team
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience. (OOP)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, or similar technical Degree
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience with Qt/C++, QtCreator, and User Interface designs.
• Proficient with lab instrumentation (Simulators, Radars, Sensors, Cameras, etc…)