Job Title: Principal Software Engineer
Location: Portsmouth Broad Oak
Salary: Up to £64,600 dependent on skills and experiences + bonus scheme

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:

• Experienced software engineer that has worked in a de-facto leadership or primary role within a software development team
• Ability to manage day-to-day work of engineers within the team and allocate and oversee individual software tasks to ensure a consistent approach
• Experience of using a high-level design methodology
• Strong experience in the application of all aspects of the software lifecycle and good knowledge of software lifecycle models (e.g. Waterfall, Agile)
• Able to seek, assess and prosecute opportunities to improve processes, tooling and infrastructure as well as software design

• Leading a team of software engineers implementing torpedo tactical software against an incrementally defined algorithm specification
• Being responsible for maintaining a configured software design and providing periodic software release
• Implementation of software changes
• Allocation of software implementation tasks to the team and reviewing completed work. Arranging peer review of software implementations as appropriate
• Reviewing of software defects and allocation of resolution tasks
• Working initially with an existing toolset and development approach to support on-going project delivery requirements
• Supporting and influencing migration and modernisation of the current software implementation approach and toolset to support longer term maintainability and spiral development