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CAE USA INC Software Engineering Manager in Binghamton, New York
About This Role
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PUT YOUR PASSION TO WORK AND PROPEL YOURSELF TOWARDS SUCCESS
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!
Summary
Are you ready for a rewarding opportunity? We are seeking an ambitious software engineering professional to join our leadership team. This position is a dual-role position requiring the successful candidate to perform functional management activities as well as technical program tasking. It is expected that the functional management role will comprise 10% to 20% of the candidate's time and the remaining 80-90% technical responsibilities.
The successful candidate will be responsible to coach, support, train, and motivate team members to ensure a high level of performance. This position will be responsible for personnel management of a software team to include performance assessment, career development guidance, program assignments, merit and salary actions, training plans, staffing and recruiting. This role is for a leader who is self-motivated and demonstrates a positive approach, strong work ethic, and ownership for their work.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
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.
Management responsibilities include:
Promote a productive, engaging and rewarding work environment where employees can contribute, grow & thrive.
Collaborate with the senior manager to guide the entire team in applying the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the development life cycle in support of programs.
Support proposal generation and software process maintenance.
Execute performance appraisals and career goal development.
Participate in workload planning, staffing allocations, and hiring to ensure alignment to overall capability and capacity strategy of the team.
Define team roles and responsibilities ensuring expectations are clear.
Serve as a channel for company communications.
Administer company policies and practices.
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
Demonstrated success in prior leadership roles, with 3-5 years leadership experience.
·Experience supporting military or defense programs.
Demonstrated programming experience in software languages – Ada, C/C++, FORTRAN, 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).
Experience leading a team of 12 employees with a record of on-time performance.
Time management and organizational skills to prioritize across concurrent program and functional responsibilities.
Current Special Access Program (SAP) access.
Proven ability recruiting top talent
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.
Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.
Salary Range: $135,200 - $157,700
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.
CAE USA Inc. is an EOE/AA employer and gives consideration for employment to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you’d like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf) .
PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
Position Type
Regular
CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.
Equal Opportunity Employer
CAE is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As "One CAE," we take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, Veteran status, age, or other legally protected characteristics.
If you don't see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed in the job posting, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please get in touch with us at rh-hr@cae.com .