Software Engineering Manager

Peraton is looking for a Software Engineering Manager in Melbourne, FL to lead our satellite ground terminal application development supporting multiple government customers. You will lead our integrated team of talented, high-performing engineers developing, testing, fielding, and maintaining our Java-based ground terminal applications. You will supervise and provide technical leadership to multiple staff to enable critical satellite communications, emerging services, and distributed computing technologies providing reliable data exchange with multiple satellite platforms across several ground terminal locations. Key areas of support include requirements analysis and other systems engineering tasks, customer presentations, CDRL development, oversight of new system interface development, integration of new system hardware, migration to updated infrastructure services, testing of system enhancements, and direct support of emerging customer needs.

Responsibilities of Position:

• Oversee design, development, test, and maintenance of Java software components. Critical technologies include remote systems network communications, event-driven and state-driven response management, hardware interface management, error logging, and exception handling.
• Lead and oversee all aspects of software engineering required to implement highly integrated and internetworked hardware and software systems.
• Analyze software requirements, develop new component architectures, software design, programming, and integration of new services at the unit, module, component, and system levels.
• Work with the customer and application users to identify emerging needs and user interactions to define new system and application-level needs.
• Work with Ground Terminal (GT) Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to design, develop, and maintain GT management software systems.
• Adhere to customer guidance, security requirements, open standards, modern software development best practices, and Industry standards to the extent that operational requirements will allow.
• Present software requirement traceability and system design details to the customer during program milestone reviews
• Provide technical reports, white papers and other documentation as required to document all software engineering service activities

Required Qualifications:

• 12 years of experience, may have supervisory or management experience
• Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain a polygraph
• Must be a US Citizen
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Experience in / knowledge of:
• Java (minimum of Java 17) including usage of Stream APIs, Future APIs, Lambdas, Records, and other modern Java development features.
• Building applications in Spring Framework/Spring Boot and Swing.
• Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) and hibernate.
• SQL relational databases especially MariaDB.
• JavaScript, Angular, and/or Go.
• Cloud application development, especially AWS.

Desired Qualifications: 

• Experience in / knowledge of software development and test that directly interacts with hardware components such as modems, antennas, timing equipment, etc