Technical Specialist, Senior - Vital Software

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Key Responsibilities:

• Understand customer needs and lifecycle concerns through studies, simulations, models, prototypes, and other engineering methods.

• Contribute to mission/function definition, architecture design, algorithm development, and requirements refinement.

• Design, code, debug, test, and review software solutions.

• Develop and execute software test procedures and participate in design reviews.

• Review code quality, test procedures, and test results.

• Analyze defects and implement corrective actions.

• Perform engineering testing and investigate issues in field environments.

• Provide input for project cost estimates.

• Support functional managers through training, leadership, and mentoring activities.

• Collaborate with Systems Engineering teams to ensure software consistency, architectural compliance, and proper component refinement.

• Deliver technical solutions in a timely manner and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

• Participate in Work Package Management activities within the assigned technical domain when required.

Required Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in software design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and URS systems.

• Experience working within Agile development environments.

Technical Skills

• Strong software development and engineering expertise.

• Advanced troubleshooting and analysis skills using field logs and event correlation.

• Ability to work independently on medium to large-scale software applications.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Visual Studio and software simulation environments.

• Experience with source control, IDE, and requirements management tools including Git, Jira, Eclipse, ClearCase, ClearQuest, and DOORS.

• Knowledge of railway signaling systems, particularly SelTrac CBTC.

• Strong verbal and written English communication skills.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation.

Preferred Technical Expertise

• C++, C#, Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, Assembly.

• STL, Boost, MFC, WPF, multithreading, socket programming.

• Windows, Linux, and Unix platforms.

• Angular, TypeScript, WebSockets, Java-based back-end development.

• Software build tools such as gmake and MSBuild.

• Embedded systems development.

• Modelling and simulation.

• Control theory and graph theory concepts.

Base Salary Range : $106,000-140,000

The Company provides an extensive benefits program for all full-time employees working 24 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents, including the following: 

• Health, Dental and Vision plans - 100% of premiums are company-paid 

• Retirement Savings Plan with a company match

• Company paid holidays - 3 weeks of vacation

• Company provided Life and accident Insurance,  LTD 

• Worklife programs such as Flextime and a variety of Development and Training opportunities 

This posting relates to an existing vacancy. 

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