Software Engineer, Senior

Torch Technologies

Thank you for your interest in employment with Torch Technologies. We are a 100% employee-owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL with over 1200 employee-owners. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of Defense. As one of the nation’s top 100 defense companies, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country. Our corporate mission sums up the pride our employee-owners take in the work we do: “Lighting the Pathway of Freedom”. And, as a Certified Evergreen ESOP, we have made the commitment to grow and sustain our company for the next 100 years! Come grow with us!

Torch Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer (Senior) with Oracle EBS, SQL, and Cloud Migration experience to join a team to support the development and sustainment of systems assigned to the Air Force Human Resources Systems Division. The person that fills this position will apply their software engineering expertise to provide testing support for the acquisition of the Air Force Integrated Personnel and Pay System (AFIPPS). The ideal candidate will understand topologies, architecture, design documentation, and work in coordination with the development team, other engineers, project managers, as well as test team members.  They will be responsible for ensuring HR and PAY partners provide files in a timely and efficient manner. The role will primarily focus on designing and implementing the Oracle pay functionality and will require experience with technical planning, acquisition, and sustainment of Personnel and Payroll Web Applications.

As a Senior Software Engineer your duties will include the following, but are not limited to:

• Preparing/creating, reviewing, and analyzing all types of documentation for: Planning, Requirements, Design, Coding, Support, and Test;

• Source code, configuration files and engineering resolution support;

• Determining operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions;

• Demonstrating solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, and code comments;

• Determining and designing system specifications, and standards, and programming/coding and installing solutions;

• Improving operations by conducting systems and process analysis plus recommending changes in policies and procedures;

• Advising (licensed) software procurements by researching, analyzing, comparing, and documenting results of vendors and products, which may include installation, configuration and testing (of products);

• Providing information and recommendations by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service related issues;

• Accomplishing engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed;

• Developing software solutions by studying requirements/user stories, user/system/data needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, and following an Agile software development lifecycle;

• Evaluating software technologies such as containerization and the use of Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, configuration as code, micro services, standard application program interfaces (API), continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), and maximizing the automation of the software development lifecycle (SDLC); and/or,

• Ensuring the rigorous application of information security/cybersecurity policies, principles, and practices to the delivery of application software services.

Required Qualifications:

• U.S. Citizenship

• Master’s or Doctorate Degree in a related field and 10 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, 5 years of which must be in the DoD.

• OR, Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 12 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, 5 of which must be in the DoD.

• OR, 15 years of directly related experience with proper certifications as described in the PWS labor category performance requirements, 8 of which must be in the DoD.

• Technical skills in systems and software engineering pertaining to full acquisition life cycle (i.e., pre and post-award, development, testing, and fielding).

• Experience with Agile methodologies and knowledge of Agile tools (JIRA, Confluence, and BitBucket).

• Experience with the implementation of new IT/Business System technologies to include but not limited to Cloud Infrastructure and Enterprise Resource and Planning (ERP) systems.

• Experience with IT/Business System technologies to include but not limited to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Cloud One, AWS, and MS Azure.

• Knowledge and proficiency with Oracle EBS, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Integration Cloud and Oracle Fusion Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) Human Capital Management (HCM) offerings and implementations.

• Experience and knowledge incorporating new technology (i.e., APIaaS, IAP, Oracle Fusion Apps, OIC) into legacy applications/systems.

• Experience with DoD IT networks and services to include connectivity requirements, i.e., GCDS, SCCA, BCAP, Cloud Computing SRG, etc.

• Knowledge with building automated integrations and maintaining integrated data exchanges (i.e., API) between Oracle EBS (on-prem) & HCM (Oracle Fusion SaaS).MS Office Applications – MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Outlook

• Unix, .NET, Java, Java, JavaScript, etc.

• Experience and knowledge of Digital Engineering practices and processes (i.e., Artificial Intelligence (AI), serverless architecture and microservices applications, etc.)

• Experience in Air Force Program system/software engineering policies, procedures, and practices.

• Knowledge and understanding of Federal and DoD Cybersecurity regulations and policies.

• Experience with the Risk Management Framework (RMF), and Federal DoD Cybersecurity regulations, policies and best practices.

• Secret clearance is required. Must maintain clearance at required level.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Oracle (EBS)

• SQL

• Cloud migration experience or OCI

• Auditing and accounting

• RHEL and Solaris O/S

• JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket

• Intrinsic motivation

• OAS and reporting

• Interfaces

• Certifications

  • IAT/IAM level II certification (Minimum of Security+; equivalent or higher certification). (Highly Desired)

Schedule: (M-F; 8-5)

Work Location: Randolph AFB, TX

Travel: No

Relocation Assistance Available: No

Position Contingent Upon Award of Contract: No

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Benefits: 

Torch Technologies is proud to offer a stable and professional work environment, a competitive salary, and an excellent, comprehensive benefit package including: ESOP participation, 401(k) match and safe-harbor contribution, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, Health Saving Accounts and Health Reimbursement Accounts, EAP, education assistance, paid time off, and holidays.  

Applying to Torch Technologies: 

Only those candidates invited for an interview will be contacted. Employment at Torch Technologies is contingent upon the successful completion of a comprehensive background check. 

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