Senior Software Technical Support Team Member in Merrifield, Virginia at General Dynamics Information Technology

USA VA Merrifield - 8409 Lee Hwy (VAC438)
Full time
RQ232091
Type of Requisition:
Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None

Public Trust/Other Required:
MBI (T2)

Job Family:
IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Change Management, Problem Solving, Process Improvements
Certifications:
None
Experience:
8 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
No

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Senior Software Technical Support Team Member supporting the United States Postal Service. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitoring technical and operational risks
• Identifying application, infrastructure, integration, vendor, and organizational dependencies
• Assessing the effect of dependencies on business-driven delivery timelines
• Performing critical-path and schedule-feasibility analysis
• Supporting risk-burndown planning and reporting
• Coordinating subject-matter experts to investigate and resolve issues
• Supporting/Investigating production incidents, performance problems, defects, and maintenance activities
• Reviewing technical requirements, proposed changes, and cross-system impacts
• Supporting release readiness, implementation coordination, and operational readiness
• Providing evidence-based recommendations to management
• Explaining why a proposed timeline is achievable, achievable with conditions, or not achievable

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education

• A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is required.

Required Certifications:

• One of the following:
  • SAFe RTE (Release Train Engineer)
  • SAFe Architect
  • PMI ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner)
• Or the ability to perform the following tasks:
  • Performing critical-path and schedule-feasibility analysis
  • Supporting risk-burndown planning and reporting
  • Identifying application, infrastructure, integration, vendor, and organizational dependencies
  • Assessing the effect of dependencies on business-driven delivery timelines

Required Experience:

• 8+ years of relevant experience
• Minimum of 7 years' experience in enterprise software development

Required Skills:

• The Senior Software Engineer will heavily be using these skills:
  • Governance and coordination
  • Requirements and technical-review support
  • Coordination of supplier and USPS technical teams
  • Change and release-management support
  • Dependency and risk management
  • Readiness assessments
  • Test and implementation coordination
  • Documentation and status reporting
• Must have experience working with, and developing complex enterprise software environments, including the ability to understand:
  • Application and server architecture
  • APIs and system interfaces
  • Databases and data flows
  • Windows and/or Linux environments
  • Network and infrastructure dependencies
  • Production and test environments
  • Cloud or hosted-system dependencies
  • Release and implementation processes
  • Third-party and vendor integrations

Occasional After-Hours Support

Required for:

• Planned software releases
• Implementations
• High-priority production incidents
• Emergency issue resolution
• Critical stakeholder or operational events

Required Technical Skills:

• Understand complex enterprise applications
• Identify technical dependencies and risks
• Evaluate whether proposed timelines are realistic
• Apply critical-path analysis
• Coordinate technical subject-matter experts
• Support production issues and application sustainment
• Explain technical constraints to the PMO and business stakeholders

Security Clearance Level:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting.
• This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows:
  • U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions).
  • Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.

Location:

• Merryfield HQ
  Engineering Building
  8409 Lee Hwy, Merrifield, VA 22116

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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The likely salary range for this position is $92,307 - $124,887. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:
Onsite

Work Location:
USA VA Fairfax

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work:
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