Software Engineer

Synectics is one of the nation's foremost IT consulting firms, working with a client base that includes some of the leading institutions and Fortune 500 corporations in the United States.

Overview:

This resource will provide SME for the Software Engineering space while assisting to exit the TSA's.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Software engineering community to define overall process and application solution sets

• Define short and long term process and application strategies

• Define overall Software engineering application and process architecture and ensure integration efficiencies with other engineering processes and applications

• Partner with engineering to deploy processes and applications

• Partner with engineering to support processes and applications

• Requirements gathering and documentation to support application design and test activities

• Application configuration and coding to support the engineering business processes

• Application test creation and documentation of results

• Provides operation support to resolution and escalates incidents based on priority and time frame to senior IT management and senior business customers.

• Maintains communications plan with engineering regarding application roadmaps, the status of problems/incidents, and project plans/status.

• Vendor application relationship management, roadmap influence, and ongoing license optimization & management

• Provide specific JIRA SME knowledge

Qualifications:

BS Computer Science or Software Engineering and min 5 years experience

• Experience with administration and deployment of Atlassian Jira and Green Hopper for agile capabilities.

• Experience installing plug ins or add-ons for JIRA to provide enhanced capabilities.

• Experience creating complex reports on historical data found in JIRA.

• Extensive knowledge of open source software engineering tools (GIT, Gerrit, Subversion, JIRA, etc) to include adding new projects, new personnel, data reporting, data recovery, trouble-shooting problems, etc.

• Knowledge of basic system administration of Windows Server OS including software installation, patching, job scheduling, performance monitoring

• Capability to provide training on open source tools and internally developed tools to Operations Support personnel and software engineers

• Researches solutions and coordinates the remediation of deficiencies

• Experience with creating and modifying Shell Scripts