Software Engineering Lead

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Welcome to CAE! We are excited to become a part of your professional journey and to help you discover a career that aligns with your values, experience, expertise, and aspirations! As a leader in the defense and security industry, CAE’s team is passionate about simulation and training and developing the most sophisticated solutions to help our defense and security customers prepare for mission success. With our people at the very heart of our organization, driving innovation and new technologies, we are committed to providing a work environment for employees in which they can thrive and one that values professional growth, teamwork, and engagement. 

Who We Are: 

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, civil aviation, and healthcare by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness. 

• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness. 

• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed. 

What We Have to Offer: 

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance 

• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe 

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions 

• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun! 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

Are you ready for a rewarding opportunity? We are seeking an ambitious software engineering professional to join our team. The successful candidate will have the ability to take ownership of hard problems and drive to a solution, while working in a team environment and provide leadership for its implementation. This role is for a candidate who is self-motivated and demonstrates a positive approach, strong work ethic, and ownership for their work. 

Technical responsibilities include: 

• Coordinate with other program leads to ensure program completes successfully. 

• Work in a team environment, throughout the lifecycle of the program, using either Waterfall or Agile methodologies. 

• Develop software products within all phases of the software lifecycle. 

• Provide guidance to the project team and ensures project goals are achieved. 

• Ensure program plans are followed and artifacts needed are created for each phase the delivery cycle.  

• Actively mentor intermediate and junior engineers 

• Understand overall knowledge of the software activities for the project. 

• Experience with task/resource planning, development of BOEs, IMP and IMS planning. 

Qualifications and Education Requirements  

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other technical field or equivalent education and work experience 

• Minimum of 10 years software development experience 

• Experience supporting military or defense programs. 

• Demonstrated programming experience in C/C++. 

• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management. 

• Experience with the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). 

• Strong critical thinking and logical reasoning skills with the ability to solve issues and predict potential programmatic and technical risks. 

• Proven track record of building relationships, fostering collaboration and working cross-functionally with multidisciplinary teams. 

• Must have an active DoD Secret or higher clearance that has been granted or renewed in the last 5 years. 

• Must be able to obtain and maintain Special Program Access prior to the start of employment. 

• Flexibility to support occasional overtime, weekend work, shift work and site travel (CONUS) 

• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.  

Preferred Skills  

• Experience using earned value management systems to manage a team's cost and schedule performance. 

• Experience with Software Change Control, Change Management, and CI/CD tools such as: Atlassian tool suite, GitHub, GitLab, AND/OR Jenkins. 

• Experience in an Agile/SAFe leadership role (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Release Train Engineer, e.g.) 

• Experience architecting, designing, modeling, implementing, integrating, and debugging OO C++ software running on Real-Time Operating systems such as: VxWorks, Integrity, AND/OR Real Time Embedded Linux. 

• Demonstrated mentoring and coaching skills, and excellent 2-way communication skills (upward and downward). 

• Time management and organizational skills to prioritize across concurrent program and functional responsibilities. 

• Current Special Access Program (SAP) access. 

Security Responsibilities  

Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.   

•  Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.  

Salary Range: $127,700 - 150,200

Please note: The actual compensation rate is subject to the evaluation of the following factors (but not limited to): the candidate's work experience, qualifications, skills, internal equity, and market

Other Duties 

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. 

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