Software Engineer, Senior

starfish; Randolph Air Force Base (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Torch Technologies is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with Oracle EBS or SQL Database experience to join a team supporting the Air Force Human Resources Systems Division. You will provide technical oversight, evaluate architectures, and build automated testing and schema-as-code deployment into the CI/CD pipeline, while ensuring data hygiene and security compliance.

The role emphasizes Agile development, database testing, and modern software practices, including containerization and

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Master's or Doctorate in a related field with 10+ years of relevant experience, 5+ years in the DoW.
• Bachelor's in a related field with 12+ years of experience, 5+ years in the DoW.
• 15 years of directly related experience with proper certifications as described in the PWS labor category, 8+ years in the DoW.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, review, and analyze documentation for planning, requirements, design, coding, support, and test.
• Handle source code, configuration files and engineering resolution support.
• Evaluate feasibility by analyzing requirements and proposed solutions.
• Develop documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, and code comments to demonstrate solutions.
• Design system specifications and programming standards; install solutions.
• Improve operations through systems and process analysis and policy updates.
• Advise on software procurements by researching and comparing vendors.
• Collect, analyze, and summarize development and service issues.

Skills

Oracle database expertise

PL/SQL

Automated testing

CI/CD

Education

Master's or Doctorate in related field

Bachelor's in related field

15 years directly related experience with certifications

Tools

Oracle EBS

SQL

utPLSQL

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

Job description

About Torch Technologies

Torch Technologies Thank you for your interest in employment with Torch Technologies. We are a 100% employee-owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of War. As one of the nation's top 100 defense companies, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country. Our corporate mission sums up the pride our employee-owners take in the work we do: "Lighting the Pathway of Freedom". And, as a Certified Evergreen ESOP, we have made the commitment to grow and sustain our company for the next 100 years! Come grow with us.

Torch Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer (Senior) with Oracle EBS or SQL Database Experience to join a team to support the testing of systems assigned to the Air Force Human Resources Systems Division. The person that fills this position will apply their software engineering and database expertise to provide technical oversight, architectural evaluation and high-performance quality engineering for the Military Personnel Data System database layer and associated Air Force/DoW personnel systems. The ideal candidate will be capable of architecting and building automate testing and schema-as-code deployment into the program's CI/CD pipeline, manage data-hygiene verification, enforce compliance gating, and implement next-generation agentic automated workflows. This position supports the AFLCMC/GB Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate (BES)/GBH Human Resources Systems Division.

Responsibilities

• Preparing/creating, reviewing, and analyzing all types of documentation for: Planning, Requirements, Design, Coding, Support, and Test;
• Source code, configuration files and engineering resolution support.
• Determining operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions;
• Demonstrating solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, and code comments.
• Determining and designing system specifications, and standards, and programming/coding and installing solutions.
• Improving operations by conducting systems and process analysis plus recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Advising (licensed) software procurements by researching, analyzing, comparing, and documenting results of vendors and products, which may include installation, configuration and testing (of products).
• Providing information and recommendations by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service-related issues.
• Accomplishing engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
• Developing software solutions by studying requirements/user stories, user/system/data needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, and following an Agile software development lifecycle.
• Evaluating software technologies such as containerization and the use of Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, configuration as code, micro services, standard application program interfaces (API), continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), and maximizing the automation of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Ensuring the rigorous application of information security/cybersecurity policies, principles, and practices to the delivery of application software services.

Required Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship.

Education

• Master's or Doctorate Degree in a related field and 10 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, 10 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, 5 years of which must be in the DoW.
• OR, bachelor's degree in a related field and 12 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, 5 of which must be in the DoW.
• OR, 15 years of directly related experience with proper certifications as described in the PWS labor category performance requirements, 8 of which must be in the DoW.

Specific Work Experience

• Experience evaluating Oracle database code, PL/SQL packages, stored procedures, triggers, view and schema updates.
• Experience writing production-grade database test routines and automated unit/integration test suites (e.g. using utPLSQL or database native frameworks) to independently validate deliverables.
• Experience developing automated scripts and data factory utilities for synthetic test generation, database state resets, and environment staging.
• Experience in Air Force Program system/software engineering policies, procedures, and practices.
• Knowledge and understanding of Federal and DoW Cybersecurity regulations and policies.
• Experience with the Risk Management Framework (RMF), and Federal DoW Cybersecuri