Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to develop quality software across a range of projects, operating systems and development environments, as well as providing support, leadership and guidance to the wider team.

Principal Relationships

• Project SW Engineering Manager/Team Lead
• Project SW Architect
• Project Systems Engineers

Designing, coding, testing, configuring and supporting fully integrated software solutions that meet customer needs and our own high standards. Working closely with Systems Engineers, Software Engineers and Architects to support the development and review of functional design specifications, high-level system architectures and interface designs Contributing to scrum teams, attending project reviews and ensuring work adheres to established software engineering processes and methodologies Supporting, encouraging and sharing knowledge with other team members.

Key Performance Indicators against Responsibilities and Tasks

• Take pro-active ownership of all allocated tasks, delivering on time and within budget.
• Understand and adhere to design decisions
• Work with Technical Leads to ensure that all work produced is `designed to cost'
• Adopt the agreed business processes

• Significant  Java development experience, supported by strong design principles.
• Previous experience of undertaking a senior role within a software development team. or have an aspiration to undertake a senior role within a software development team, with a proven ability to deliver successful software.
• A deep understanding of configuration management, change control and continuous integration tools such as Jenkins and a passion for producing clean code
• In addition any of the following would be beneficial:
• Spring, Camel, JPA, Sencha, JavaScript, React
• Web services design and development
• Agile methodologies,  i.e. SCRUM
• Luciad or ESRI
• Continuous integration and automated test tools
• HCI/Ux design
• Military software development
• Experience of relational databases and SQL

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant discipline, e.g. Software Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics.
• Relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.