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The selected candidate’s primary focus will be Oracle Middleware including implementing, administering, monitoring, and troubleshooting middleware platforms that enable application integration, API delivery, messaging, and identity/access flows.\nAs a member of the Boeing software team, you will be involved in the entire product development lifecycle, from conceptualization and development to the maintenance and support of the delivered system for our customers. These roles provide opportunities for you to significantly influence project outcomes. The Boeing SMS Software team fosters a collaborative mentoring environment, allowing you to learn, mentor others, and contribute to shaping the future of our organization.\nAt Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that is welcoming, respectful, and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. At Boeing SMS we work with commercial, government, and proprietary customers.\n Position Responsibilities:\nLeads the planning of software development tasks including detailed software design, coding, and unit/integration/functional/system testing of customer desired features/user stories, ensuring successful achievement of acceptance criteria\nPartners with appropriate stakeholders to inform system definition and review translation of system-level requirements into software requirements and models that meet customer, operational and performance requirements and have clear traceability to design, code, and test artifacts\nReviews completion of software system-level analyses to identify risk, issues, and opportunities; lead integration and deployment of mitigation actions throughout the software lifecycle\nLeads code reviews to ensure alignment to requirements and standard\nLeads monitoring and reviewing test completion, verification processes and issue resolution for software systems\nLead review of product and process for alignment with project plans and industry standards by tracking and evaluation of internal team and supplier performance\nInstall, configure, administer, and patch middleware platforms (on-prem and/or cloud)\nDiagnose end-to-end integration issues across apps, middleware, and network layers\nAssist development teams with deployment packaging, configuration, and connectivity\nTune middleware settings; analyze thread dumps, heap usage, logs, and connection pools\nSupport CI/CD pipelines for middleware components\nContainerize middleware components where appropriate and support deployments\nSecurity Clearance:\nThis position requires an active U.S. Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). 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Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.\nThe Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.\nThe specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.\nPay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.\nSummary Pay Range for Experienced level (Level 3): USD $135,150 - $182,850\nSummary Pay Range for Lead level (Level 4): USD $171,700 - $232,300\nThe Boeing 401(k) helps you save for your future, with contributions from Boeing that can help you grow your retirement savings. Our best-in-class retirement benefit features:\n1. Best in class 401(k) plan: we'll match your contributions dollar for dollar, up to 10% of eligible pay with immediate 100% vesting\n2. Student Loan Match : The Boeing 401(k) Student Loan Match allows eligible enrolled U.S. employees to have their qualified student loan debt payments counted, along with any match-eligible contributions they make, for purposes of determining the Company Match to employees' Boeing 401(k) accounts.\nLanguage Requirements:\nNot ApplicableEducation:\nBachelor's Degree or EquivalentRelocation:\nThis position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.Export Control Requirement:\nThis position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. 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