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Our Engineers are among the best in the business, and require equally devoted team members to help develop our advanced systems and products. Use your talent, education and experience to work with the latest in aerospace and defense technology. You’ll literally be defining the future. Bachelor’s degree required plus experience. Top-secret security clearance and U.S. citizenship are required.

Date: 10/29/2009
Location: Lanham, MD
Software Engineer – 188536
Position requires an Active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph.
No relocation is offered with this opportunity.


Software Engineer
Northrop Grumman Information Systems sector is seeking a Software Engineer to join a team of dynamic and highly talented engineering, management, and support personnel responsible for providing state-of-the-art technology insertion, hardware and software upgrades, and full life-cycle support to a strategically important worldwide system. The selected individual will join the software engineering team as a Software Engineer on a large government program with a staff of more than 120 technical professionals from Northrop Grumman and numerous teammates. This position will be located in Landover, MD.

Roles and Responsibilities:
* Designs, develops, tests and debugs database and application software and systems
* Determines computer user needs; analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; utility programs, and operating systems
* Perform corrective, adaptive, and software maintenance on the software baseline
* Prepare and maintain software documentation
* Provide day-to-day software support to integration and test, and field support activities
* Ensures software standards are met
* Administer Sybase relational databases, optimizing database performance, redesigning database structures and/or loading/reloading data into the database, and developing relational database software using SQL.
Minimum Qualifications:
To be considered for this position, you must minimally meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below:
* BS in technical discipline, and two years of technical experience
* Minimum of two years administrating Sybase relational databases

Additional Qualifications:
Candidates with these desired skills will be given preferential consideration:
* Bachelors or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or Math
* Programming experience in C/C++, Objective C, shell, or Java
* Experience with application development for Apple OSX platform
* Experience with Solaris UNIX systems
* Experience with database replication
* Experience with web applications and document management systems
Final Grade determination based upon qualifications of selected candidate.

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