Senior Principal Software Engineer (Architect)
1 week ago• Bedford, MA
Overview
Position Summary:
Under minimal supervision, leads software development activities including software requirements, architecture, design, implementation, and integration.
Responsibilities
Key Accountabilities
Essential Functions:
- Provides software technical leadership on a software development team. This includes participating in requirements review, design reviews, code reviews, test case reviews, and team meetings.
- Participate as an active member on a project development team: This includes requirements change control, defect management, risk analysis, and release management.
- Creates/Maintains software requirement/functional specifications.
- Creates/Maintains software architecture documentation.
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Creates/Maintains software (component) design documentation.
Creates/Maintains software source code that adheres to design documentation.
Performs unit testing and/or code reviews as per project policy.
Performs integration testing to ensure software functions within application and with electrical and mechanical devices.
Evaluates, investigates, and implements fixes to assigned software defects.
Evaluates, investigates, and implements assigned software change proposals.
Provides level of effort for assigned software activities
Tracks personal estimates over time in order to improve accuracy.
Follows project and corporate software plans, standards, and procedures to perform software development
Management:
- Creates/Maintains software project plans.
- Creates/Maintains software configuration management plans.
- Coordinates, schedules and supervises software developers for a project
Technical:
- Brings new software technologies into the company.
- Creates/Maintains applications (utilities) for the project to improve team efficiency, such as hardware control for other engineering disciplines or automated data analyzers for software test.
- Must have the ability to handle many software components and take ownership for a large percentage of the code base.
- Must have the ability to take ownership for high complexity implementations.
- Perform other related duties as assigned
Budget Managed (if applicable):
- N/A
Internal Networking/Key Relationships:
- TBD based on departmental/project needs
Skills & Capabilities:
- Leadership, Management, Team, Individual, etc (for e.g.: holds people accountable, teamwork, delegation, communication, impact and influencing, etc)
- Consult dictionary of competencies on Manager's Database Ability to administer software engineering tools: configuration management, requirements management, and defect management.
- Ability to operate instrumentation.
- Possesses strong written and oral communications skills.
- Ability to work in a team environment of software developers and testers.
Qualifications
Min Knowledge & Experience required for the position:
- Bachelor's Degree plus a minimum of 17 years of related experience or Master's Degree plus a minimum of 15 years of related experience or waiver based on experience.
- Degree should be in a technical discipline such as Chemistry, Math, Physics, Engineering, or Computer Science.
- Proficient in code languages (Assembly, C, C++, Java, C#, .NET, etc.) found in product development.
- Proficiency with a personal computer and software packages
- Language: English
International Mobility: Required: No
Travel requirements:
- <5 % of time
Client-provided location(s): Bedford, MA
Job ID: 92689395
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2025-09-26T15:46:00
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
Parental Benefits
Work Flexibility
Office Life and Perks
Vacation and Time Off
Financial and Retirement
Professional Development
Diversity and Inclusion