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The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Founded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $940 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry. GTRI's renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, state, and industry.   

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Project/Unit Description

The Applied Systems Laboratory (ASL) Air and Missile Defense Systems (AMDS) Division of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is seeking an experienced Software Architect to support concept development, design of software features, systems design and system architecture design for new or upgraded capabilities and components (i.e., sensors and weapons) into the Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (AIAMD) architecture. Located in Huntsville, Alabama, ASL conducts world-class applied research in system modeling, simulation, analysis, testing, evaluation, and software development in support of the government sponsors.

Job Purpose

The Software Architect designs, develops, and deploys software solutions for GTRI's applied research sponsors. The Software Architect provides technical leadership, including design documentation that details recommendations and implementation details about software subsystems, hardware technologies, and deployment requirements. The Software Architect is knowledgeable in continuous development / continuous integration (CD/CI) best practices and enabling technology, cloud platforms for deployment, and development environment creation and management. The Software Architect is also able to independently implement any portion of the design/development process as needed for custom implementations.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with various stakeholders to determine software requirements.
• Create high-level product specifications and design documents.
• Provides development team with architectural blueprints to follow.
• Perform software architecture development.
• Decompose system or module requirements.
• Define interfaces, data structures and broad data management approach.
• Create and manage development environment.
• Deploy software to production environment.
• Test the final product to ensure it is completely functional and meets requirements.
• Guide and assist the development team throughout the process.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues with coding or design.
• Ensure team adheres to development schedules and deadlines.
• Contribute to research reports, white papers, and competitive proposals.

Additional Responsibilities

• Support concept and feature development for integration of new or upgraded mission command capabilities, sensors, and weapons into the Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (AIAMD) architecture using Agile methods.
• Provide technical subject matter expertise for underlying mission command, sensor, and weapon technologies.
• Utilize artifacts from previously developed concepts and current AIAMD architecture, requirements, and design to provide context and constrain concept and feature development.
• Perform investigations and develop reports to determine modifications to the AIAMD system architecture, system requirements, software requirements, interfaces and software design to support implementation of features.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to elaborate concepts and solicit feedback.
  Perform analysis trades and develop algorithms to support implementation of features.
• Develop verification criteria for implementation of features.
• Author concepts, capabilities, and feature definition documents and support technical document reviews.
• Support implementation and testing of features by development, test, and integration teams.
• Support planning meetings and working groups.

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in concept and feature Agile development methodologies and structured approaches to documentation.
• Air and Missile Defense experience and knowledge of command and control, sensor, and weapon technologies.
• Coordination, organization, teaming and communication abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance.
• Experience with Army Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) Software and the AIAMD system of systems architecture.
• Experience with designing and improving real time, distributed systems architectures.
• Experience with configuration management and requirements management systems such as DOORS, JIRA, MKS or ClearCase.
• Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) experience and utilization of Magic Draw or Cameo tool suite.

Travel Requirements

• <10% travel.

Education and Length of Experience

This position vacancy is an open-rank announcement. The final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty Extension Professional ranks as outlined in section 3.2.1 of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook

• 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Software Engineering.
• 3 years of related experience with a Masters’ degree in Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Software Engineering.
• 0 years of related experience with a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Software Engineering.

U.S. Citizenship Requirements

Due to our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be U.S. Citizens.

Clearance Type Required

Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain an active security clearance.

Benefits at GTRI

Comprehensive information on currently offered GTRI benefits, including Health & Welfare, Retirement Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Time Off, and Professional Development, can be found through this link: https://benefits.hr.gatech.edu/.

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