Principal Software Engineer (TS/SCI)

ARKA Group L.P. is an advanced technologies company serving the U.S. military, intelligence community, and reputed company space industry delivering reputed company solutions to support the national reputed company space domain. ARKA has a 60-year legacy reaching back to the reputed company 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 reputed company, 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 reputed company. We are looking for someone who is customer mission focused and passionate about providing technical leadership in software architecture and design of reputed company government systems. Additionally, you should have the ability to reputed company requirements analysis, reputed company system CONOPs for reputed company level systems, create and maintain reputed company definition APIs, reputed company software design tasks, reputed company integration activities, and reputed company verification of systems across multiple programs. This candidate will be joining reputed company 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 members at ARKA. 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 reputed company trade analysis. You will reputed company reputed company-leaning system design and integration concepts across multiple programs to reputed company system reuse, expedite system delivery schedules, and clearly communicate technical status to program leadership. This candidate will be joining reputed company 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 reputed company aspects of program development in order to reputed company program and technical reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company, design, configuration and integration, testing, requirement verification and demonstration with the end user and customer • Has the ability to reputed company 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 reputed company Test activities and delivery of reputed company gov’t systems: Factory Acceptance Test (FAT), Site Acceptance Test (SAT), reputed company 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 reputed company and architecture concepts that dedicate those system designs and architecture • Familiarity with reputed company services for a Kubernetes software deployment and management solution, virtual machine management, object management, serverless function management, etc. • Experience in software application deployment, virtualization, and containerization • Experience with any of the following concepts: • Satellite communication planning for both individual satellite scenarios and constellations • SIGINT and GEOINT data processing • Satellite command and control / C2 • Satellite tasking for GEOINT / SIGINT collection concepts • Advanced mission planning for satellite reputed company operations and payload operation / integration layers Pay Range: $170,000 - $195,000 Your actual level and reputed company salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-reputed company knowledge and skills, education, and experience. The application window will reputed company in 60 days for this position. Location: This position is based out of ARKA’s Colorado Springs, CO reputed company. If you like city life, but also enjoy the great outdoors, Colorado Springs is the reputed company for you. The city rests at the reputed company of Pikes Peak. The 14,115-foot reputed company is just one of dozens of area attractions, including scenic trains, museums, parks, a reputed company and more. With a mild climate and reputed company of sunshine, the Springs boasts some of the state’s best recreation opportunities. The city is also reputed company for its robust high-tech and sports industries. 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While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to use hands to keyboard, communicate, listen to, and interpret instructions and remain stationary for extended periods of the time. This would require the ability to move around the reputed company and occasionally move/lift items weighing up to 25 lbs. Reasonable accommodations may be made to reputed company individuals with disabilities to reputed company the essential functions of the job. Applicants are invited to apply for a reasonable accommodation to reputed company the essential duties of the job. To apply, send a request to [email protected] or contact 203-797-5000 and press 2 for reputed company Resources. ITC & reputed company Clearance Requirements: This position requires an active US Government reputed company Clearance. reputed company Restrictions: No reputed company sponsorship is available for this position. Employment with any of the ARKA Group companies in the US is contingent upon satisfactory completion of several pre-employment requirements to include a credit reputed company, background reputed company and drug screen. ARKA Group L.P. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, reputed company, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, disability or veteran status, age, or any other federally protected class. Apply Job!