Senior Software Engineer

Russell Tobin is recruiting for a global public sector client seeking a Senior Software Engineer. The role leads and supports complex application design, development, testing, implementation, documentation, and maintenance, while collaborating with customers and stakeholders. It also focuses on cloud engineering, DevOps, systems integration, security, compliance, and infrastructure optimization.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and/or work on complex IT application design, development, testing, implementation, documentation, and support
• Analyze and refine system requirements and translate them into application prototypes and solutions
• Plan and design system and application architecture
• Write, debug, maintain, and optimize application code
• Develop, integrate, test, and support software applications
• Design user interfaces and determine application output formats
• Collaborate with customers and stakeholders throughout application testing and implementation
• Ensure software quality, functionality, security, and compliance
• Integrate hardware and software components and support operating-system environments
• Maintain technical and program documentation
• Evaluate new application and systems-engineering technologies
• Apply information security and information assurance policies and practices
• Support operating-system installation, configuration, performance monitoring, optimization, and security compliance
• Evaluate and validate systems software and support hardware/software integration
• Install and maintain compilers, assemblers, utilities, and other systems software
• Design, develop, optimize, and integrate reusable system components
• Apply systems engineering concepts including structured design, supportability, survivability, reliability, scalability, and maintainability
• Analyze infrastructure requirements, including bandwidth and server sizing
• Prepare effective technical documentation and reports while maintaining strong working relationships with customers and stakeholders

Requirements:

• Minimum 7 years of experience in electronic data processing systems study, systems design, and programming
• At least 4 years of experience working in a lead capacity
• Additional qualifying experience may substitute for education on a year-for-year basis
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or Java
• Strong experience developing RESTful APIs and performing system-to-system integrations
• Expertise with relational databases, SQL, data structures, data modeling, data warehousing, and transaction processing
• Experience with data mapping, data transformation, and data validation logic
• Strong cloud engineering experience with AWS and/or Azure
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies
• Strong DevOps experience, including CI/CD pipelines, Git branching strategies, Docker/containerization, and release management
• Familiarity with HL7 standards, including FHIR and HL7 v2 messaging
• Knowledge of application software development principles, methodologies, and software design approaches
• Knowledge of operating-system installation and configuration
• Understanding of optimization concepts and methods
• Knowledge of applicable government regulations and organizational operating environments
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with customers, stakeholders, and technical teams
• Experience ensuring software security, quality, functionality, and compliance
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related IT field preferred