Posting Duration:

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs:

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.

Salary Range:

$142,600 - $242,300

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking a manager to join our multidisciplinary team, partner across our space and ground systems programs, and provide leadership and guidance to this highly capable department of 14 software engineers and computer scientists. While the department is currently fully committed to Sandia’s nuclear detonation detection mission, increased demand within Sandia's Space Mission Program may necessitate growth and engagement in new mission areas.

Core responsibilities for this position:

• Provide leadership for existing software development teams extending and enhancing mission applications of over 1M source lines of code.
• Assume primary responsibility for cost estimation, development, and delivery of new-start development projects.
• Partner across the Modern Systems leadership team to support complex operational information systems and meet the needs of mission users.
• Work alongside mission partners in laboratory centers 2600, 5300, 5400, 6300, 6700, and 9300 to define and implement both short and long-term strategies for successful program execution.
• Advance software development competencies within the department and across the center through hiring and the strategic injection of new technologies and approaches.
• Maintain a working environment for the engineers in 6361 that promotes purposeful productivity, mutual respect, and a state of flow.
• Bring personal perspective on the current and future needs of laboratory missions to influence the future of the group and center.
• Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant will be required to work on-site at the Albuquerque, NM location at least 80% of the time.

Qualifications We Require:

• Master’s degree, or higher, in a related STEM discipline
• Eight (8) or more years in related software development experience
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

• A minimum of two years of demonstrated leadership experience.
• Proficiency in translating high-level direction into action
• A strong background and years of proven experience in large-scale software systems architectures and software development and testing of applications written in modern programming languages (e.g. C++, Java, Python)
• Proficiency with software development lifecycle activities (such as specification, development, integration and test, and long-term support) and with structured software development methodologies, tools, and processes, including Agile team structures
• Experience with team leadership and project management (cost, schedule, performance)
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively and excel in a collaborative and interdisciplinary team management environment, including sound technical verbal and written communication
• Experience collaborating with internal or external organizations and building trust-based relationships
• Experience working in large scale, multi-team, multi-disciplinary environments
• Experience with the recruiting and hiring of computer scientists and IT professionals
• Enthusiasm for discovering innovative, forward-looking approaches that solve unmet mission needs
• Experience developing in Unix/Linux operating environments
• Experience using configuration management and CI/CD pipeline tools
• Strong presentation skills including demonstrated successful experience in customer engagement
• Ability to travel on occasion
• Current Q/SCI clearance or equivalent

About Our Team:

Modern Systems Actualization excels at innovating ways to transform sensor data to knowledge, enabling our customers to take action with confidence. The keys to our success are reusable, flexible architectures and generic data components which enable us to model R&D concepts, exploit existing data streams, orchestrate new solutions and insert them into high assurance operational environments.

About Sandia:

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov*These benefits vary by job classification.

Security Clearance:

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

Job ID: 693025