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BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: London - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

TEAM LEADERSHIP ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Build a team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation;
• Create an inclusive, empowering and physiologically safe space for engineers to work;
• Manage the team – which may be a group of managers themselves;
• Motivate the team – create physiological safety;
• Takes a view on the performance of team members;
• Identify any training needs of team members;
• Nurture and guide the technical ability of the team members;
• Provide input into the performance reviews of any team member

The ideal candidate will have consistently demonstrated personal mastery of all the accountabilities as a Software Engineer and wants to progress their career by managing teams and delivery timelines. With this as a critical foundation, the Senior Software Engineer will:

• Have experience with Backend Development (Java, Spring, Elastic Search)
• Track record of being able to produce code, write code and test code
• Demonstrate competency of working with Java technologies
• Monitors and reports on the progress of development, communicating technical risks and dependencies effectively;
• Oversees the development cycle and ensuring outputs are developed to specification and the required quality standard, including documenting and evidencing this where required;
• Is the ambassador and team advocate of good technical practice;
• Is comfortable taking calculated risks to push the envelope for what is possible;
• Mentors the team in the application of engineering techniques (for example in software development: unit testing, CI/CD, TDD and static analysis etc.)
• Works effectively with other Technical Leaders to provide clarity and focus;
• Work closely and effectively with other roles to provide coherent leadership, for example, Agile Coaches, Engineering Managers, Project Managers;
• Supports building the company’s delivery capability by conducting technical interviews for candidate staff

The ideal candidate will have consistently demonstrated personal mastery of all the accountabilities as a Software Engineer and wants to progress their career by managing teams and delivery timelines. With this as a critical foundation, the Senior Software Engineer will:

• Have experience with Backend Development (Java, Spring, Elastic Search)
• Track record of being able to produce code, write code and test code
• Demonstrate competency of working with Java technologies
• Monitors and reports on the progress of development, communicating technical risks and dependencies effectively;
• Oversees the development cycle and ensuring outputs are developed to specification and the required quality standard, including documenting and evidencing this where required;
• Is the ambassador and team advocate of good technical practice;
• Is comfortable taking calculated risks to push the envelope for what is possible;
• Mentors the team in the application of engineering techniques (for example in software development: unit testing, CI/CD, TDD and static analysis etc.)
• Works effectively with other Technical Leaders to provide clarity and focus;
• Work closely and effectively with other roles to provide coherent leadership, for example, Agile Coaches, Engineering Managers, Project Managers;
• Supports building the company’s delivery capability by conducting technical interviews for candidate staff.