ARKA Group L.P. is an advanced technologies company serving the U.S.
military, intelligence community, and commercial space industry delivering
next-generation solutions to support the national security space domain. ARKA
has a 60-year legacy reaching back to the very beginning of our country's
space endeavors. We're a legacy of mission excellence built on
ground-breaking technologies. Join the ARKA mission and discover your next
career opportunity now!
Position Overview:
This position is for a Principal Software Engineer. This role will offer some
work from home flexibility. This role will require up to 20% travel.
In this role, you will be responsible for technical direction and
oversight, up to and including the requirement decomposition into features
and epics for development. You will be in a key role to define the "what"
aspects of what the system will do. This responsibility is expected to evolve
over the course of a program and includes fostering customer intimacy to
ensure full understanding of the customer's needs and then working with the
chief architect to realize that vision.
We are looking for someone who is customer mission focused and passionate
about providing technical leadership in software architecture and design of
complex government systems. Additionally, you should have the ability to
perform requirements analysis, develop system CONOPs for enterprise level
systems, create and maintain interface definition APIs, perform software
design tasks, lead integration activities, and perform verification of
systems across multiple programs. This candidate will be joining our team of
distributed engineers to help shape the development and delivery of custom
applications and advanced R&D solutions for our customers. In addition,
you'll have the opportunity to grow and hone your skills with other talented
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Responsibilities:
Our ideal candidate is proficient technical leader that has previous
experience with government mission systems and is passionate about providing
technical leadership to a team of software and system engineers. You should
possess deep knowledge of the system engineering "V" and apply that to
government programs, the ability to create system architecture
definitions, and perform trade analysis. You will leverage forward-leaning
system design and integration concepts across multiple programs to enable
system reuse, expedite system delivery schedules, and clearly communicate
technical status to program leadership. This candidate will be joining our
team of engineers to shape the development and delivery of custom applications
and advanced R&D solutions for our customers.
As Principal Engineer, your responsibilities include:
Leading engineering teams in all aspects of program development in order to
achieve program and technical success through the entire Software Development
Life Cycle (SDLC)
Continuously apply technical knowledge to determine and set technical
objectives to analyze, investigate, and resolve advanced engineering problems
Chairing all engineering boards on program
Evaluating the integration of the engineering solution development,
documentation, and deployment to ensure compliance with program statement of
work in terms of content and schedule
Communicating engineering status, risks or issues involving system
performance, availability, or security to program leadership and the customer
Holding technical exchange meetings with government customer to brief
engineering design for government review and approval mechanisms
Basic Qualifications:
You have an active Top Secret/SCI Clearance
Prior experience as a Principal Engineer, Associate Principal Engineer, or
proven track record of providing technical leadership for teams throughout the
whole software development lifecycle and transitioning capabilities into a
classified government operational environment
Effective cross-organizational communicator with the ability to work well on a
small team in a fast-paced environment that includes the ability to multi-task
across efforts and still ensure program milestones and deadlines are met
Proven track record of leading agile software and systems engineering efforts
across the entire lifecycle including operational analysis, requirements
generation, design, configuration and integration, testing,
requirement verification and demonstration with the end user and customer
Has the ability to perform in depth system engineering activities and then
translate those into actionable software development concepts
Proven track record of successfully deploying new capabilities into a
classified government operational environment
Proven track record of supporting and coordinating factory test support of
Enterprise Test activities and delivery of complex gov't systems: Factory
Acceptance Test (FAT), Site Acceptance Test (SAT), Enterprise
Integration Test (EIT)
Experience chairing various engineering review boards: Engineering Review
Board (ERB), Discrepancy Review Board (DRB), Risk & Opportunity
Management Board (ROMB)
Demonstrated experience working projects across dispersed organizations and
geographical locations
Demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills and engagement with virtual teams
Preferred Qualifications:
Demonstrated business acumen and ability to balance technical requirements
with business needs
Familiarity with software development in AWS, AZURE or a similar cloud and
architecture concepts that dedicate those system designs and architecture
Familiarity with cloud services for a Kubernetes software deployment and
management solution, virtual machine management, object management,
serverless function management, etc.
Experience in software...