Software Engineer

Software Engineer - 3 positions available

£53.51 per hour (inside IR35)

6 months initial term

3 days per week on site (New Malden KT3) - SW London

Join our client and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

As a Software Engineer, you will be developing and maintaining a range of products that shape and bring together the software that will be used throughout the Royal Navy fleet. You will be actively engaging in describe an aspect of the team or role experiences, support internal and customer testing and get involved in the evaluation of new and emergent technology and the potential insertion of such technology to keep our product portfolio competitive in the marketplace.

Typical duties include

• Implement fixes and functionality updates of relevant software products in line with project priorities
• Carrying out relatively complex technical analyses and investigations, including evaluation and selection of technical options, and prepare reports with suggested recommendations to support the resolution of problems and the improvement of engineering capability
• Preparing and developing designs in line with specifications and all quality and technical standards, and carry out design appraisals in assigned areas to ensure all standards are maintained
• Address operational problems or developments and develop and prepare solutions, individually or as a member of a project team
• Participating in the integration and testing of software products on local target rigs
• Undertaking design, development, integration and test of the assigned Software Products in line with all relevant processes and quality requirements under the direction of the Software Engineering team leaders

Knowledge:

• Ability to operate in a large, complex multi-project environment in cross-functional, distributed teams
• Software engineering background
• Strong analytical thinking to debug complex issues
• Able to document low level design and rationale solutions
• Previous experience working with Agile development process
• Experience with many of the following:
• Experience as a Software Engineer with particular focus to development and testing using C#
• WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) experience
• Powershell
• Unit, regression and system testing

Skills:

• Demonstrates good communication skills (oral, written and presentation) in both formal and informal settings.
• Good people interaction skills and experienced in a multi-disciplined engineering environment
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing to management and peers
• Displays flexibility in response to changes in tasking & priorities
• Good understanding of the Engineering Lifecycle
• (Desirable) Experience in defence engineering or related industry
• (Desirable) Knowledge of the Naval domain