Manager, Software Engineering

Role and Responsibilities

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

Seeking an engineering manager to lead software engineering developers creating containerized micro service applications with disciplines in simulator synthetic environments, flight training, or mission planning and awareness. This individual will act as a lead contributor for the Application Development team, focusing on training, hiring, solution development, software design standards, best practices, and architectures.

This position will require candidate to apply for a DoD security clearance. This position is a flexible hybrid position with ability to work from home for a portion of the week and be in the office a portion of the week. Since this position covers our three (3) locations, Arlington, TX, Orlando, FL and Tampa, FL, the candidate can have their office at either of these locations. Relocation assistance is available upon request.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Directly managing and coaching a high-performing engineering team using agile methodologies
• Supports the interview process and staffing based on skillsets
• Works with cloud based full-stack application development
• Using cutting edge software to solve complex problems for company IR&D and Department of Defense projects
• Resource management within Engineering, including training and career development
• Contributes to the technical design solutions for proposal of contracts
• Interfaces with the customer to provide technical direction, documentation, and iterative demonstration of capabilities
• Supervisory and performance responsibility for direct reports, and oversight of performance of secondary reports
• Oversight of execution in compliance with company policies and procedures

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in engineering, software, or computer science
• Minimum of 8 years of software engineering experience or a Master's degree in engineering or computer science with 5 years of software engineering experience
• Must be eligible for DoD Security Clearance

PREFERRED SKILLS

These following skills will be used in this position based on the task. These are nice to have skills and the candidate will have training opportunities to gain these capabilities if needed.

• Experience working with at least one modern JavaScript framework, Angular, React, Vue, etc.
• Experience working with RESTful APIs such as Flask, Node.js, or C# ASP .Net
• Familiarity working with geospatial data using GDAL, Geoserver, OpenLayers, Leaflet, or Cesium
• Familiarity with database systems like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.
• Experience with container runtime environments such as Docker and container-orchestration systems such as Kubernetes
• Experience with event messaging brokers such as Kafka and RabbitMQ
• Deploying software to cloud platforms using containerized software modules in DevSecOps pipelines

Security Responsibilities

Must complywith 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.

Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Work Environment and Physical Demands

• May be required to sit down for long lengths of time.
• May be required to climb stairs.
• Must be able to travel periodically to customer locations

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Moderate to high levels of stress, associated with technical, schedule, and customer issues are to be expected with this position.

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 EEO is the Law poster.

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

CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. With no exception.

As captured in our overarching value "One CAE", we're proud to work as one passionate, boundaryless and inclusive team.

At CAE, all employees are welcome regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity or age.

The masculine form may be used in this job description solely for ease of reading, but refers to men, women and the gender diverse.