Software Program Manager, Washington, D.C. area, Current Job Openings, Valex LLC

Current Job Openings

Software Program Manager, Washington, D.C. area

A challenging position in computer software program management. We are looking for an innovative software engineer who will drive all aspects of the software development lifecycle: requirements, design, development, test, and release to customer success.

Must have a minimum of a BSCS and 3 years of full-time experience in computer software engineering.

The candidates for this position should be able to perform the following duties:

Collaborate with program managers, developers, and prospects to gather and define requirements;
Collect requests for the code releases, negotiate priorities and timelines;
Manage risks, schedules, and resources;
Maintain various software environments and versions;
Maintain stable code branches in SVN (Subversion);
Monitor the development activities for the worthy bugfixes, and propagate them to the stable code branches;
Oversee installation, QA and documentation (including Release Notes) of internal builds, as well as the upload of public releases to FTP;
Oversee the announcements of new releases, important changes, and new features;
Collaborate with technical writers to create customer-relevant documentation;

Essential Skills:

Unix Scripting tools;
Solid understanding of the C/C++ code development process;
3+ years of project management experience, and at least 6 years of experience in a technical field;
Effective verbal and written communication skills;
Strong experience with version control tools: SVN, CVS;
Experience in Perl/Python is a plus;
Working knowledge of JIRA;
Experience in an R&D environment with demonstrated ability to analyze problems and propose multiple solutions;

Knowledge of the following operating systems and platforms:

UNIX / Linux
MS Windows

Other:

Must pass an entry level written test;