Senior Software Engineer

at  BAE Systems

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Isle of Wight (Full time onsite)
Salary: Circa £55,000 commensurate with skills and experience

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:

Essential:

• Hold a BEng/BSc in Computer Science or other relevant Engineering or Numerate subject (technology, engineering or science related discipline)
• Have considerable experience of using at least one high level programming language (Ada is desirable) and a high-level design methodology (UML is desirable)
• Have experience of all stages of the software lifecycle and good knowledge of software lifecycle models (e.g. Waterfall, Agile)
• Have a comprehensive understanding of configuration management and experience of a configuration management tool
• Have good knowledge of appropriate software standards (e.g. ISO/IEC/IEE 12207)

• Under limited technical supervision apply experience to design & develop solutions, resolve engineering issues and problems for a range of software products as part of a 30 strong software team within the Sampson Radar Software team of BAE Systems Maritime Services
• Responsible for supporting the ongoing maintenance of software that is part of the naval radars that are in service with the Royal Navy on multiple platforms
• Responsible for the requirements, design, implementation, testing and verification of the software subsystems on the Naval radars
• Responsible for the design and development of subsystems including replacement of obsolete hardware and software to maintain and enhance the capability of the radar products for the RN
• Work as part of a cohesive team of software engineers across multiple projects and products