Software Team Product Owner

Job Description

Job Description

Clearances Required: Active DoD Secret

Location: Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Job Description

TCS is searching for a Software Team Product Owner to join our strong team of Engineers supporting our Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) customer in Huntsville, AL. The GMD program is a portion of the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) system to protect the US and our allies from ballistic missile attacks. The selected candidate will use modern tools to further the development and sustainment of the GMD system.

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This is an in-office position. Remote work is not available.

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Essential Functions:

This is an Agile Product Owner (PO) role for a software development team developing software primarily in Ada but with a potential for new development to be done in a modular hybrid approach developing new modules in C++ being called from the Ada core software. This program’s expectation of a Product Owner includes being responsible for the team’s roadmap, the vision of the team’s products, the estimation of work required to complete capabilities, the planning of the work for the scrum team, producing the metrics that show the team's progress and briefing those metrics to program leadership. Also, importantly, the activities just listed are expected to be less than half of the POs typical workload with the lion’s share being technical performance in writing/developing software. The software product we are developing is for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system on GMD weapon system (GWS) contract.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM related field, and 8 years of related experience, or a Master’s degree with 6 years of related experience, or 4 years with a PhD not to exceed 14 years
• Recent and extensive Experience Developing Software in Ada or C++ or Java
• Willingness to become highly proficient with Ada software development
• Experience leading a technical team of 5 or more employees
• Strong technical presentation skills
• Experience in estimating, planning and scheduling software development work for a technical team
• Eager to learn and absorb new concepts and information
• Must have an Interim or Active Secret Clearance
• Unix/Linux Operating System Experience
• Must be able to support an in-person / closed-area work environment
• Experience with Agile Project Management tools (Jira/Confluence) and DevSecOps tools and methods (Jenkins, Ansible, Git/Gitlab) of continuous integration/continuous delivery and deployment (CI/CD) automation
• Proven experience in understanding complex algorithms and implementing them in software
• Proven team player willing to understand multiple aspects of the project

Preferred Qualifications:

• Recent MATLAB and Python Experience
• Highly experienced with Linux, scripting, and operations
• Experience with the MDA GMD program.
• Very solid background in math and physics
• Advanced degree in Mathematics or Physics
• Math Skills: Linear Algebra, Statistics, Algorithms
  • Can be from coursework or work experience
• Physics Skills: Astro or Orbital mechanics
  • Can be from coursework or work experience
• Experience with optimization algorithms
• Experience with planning/scheduling algorithms
• Experience with sensor modeling, communication modeling, and/or missile modeling
• Battle Management or Fire Control experience

Benefits:

• Highlights of our benefits include BC/BS Health, Dental, Vision, 401(k) match, Profit Sharing, Flexible Time Off, STD/LTD/Life Insurance, Referral Bonuses, professional development reimbursement, vacation, sick leave, and maternity/paternity leave.

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TCS, Inc. is an EEO Employer.