Software Developer

Software Developer

Portsmouth

Brief

We have an exciting opportunity to join the team as a software developer for a variety of Defence and Commercial programmes.

We'll provide you with meaningful work and education opportunities that will allow you to develop your skills and enhance your career with us, but equally important you can also enjoy a strong work life balance. To ensure this we offer a flexible work schedule, hybrid work and a comprehensive benefits package to enable you to live a healthy fulfilling life in and outside of work.

Our 4Flex working fortnight is a particular favourite amongst the team, giving you every Friday off, to spend more time doing the things you enjoy.

Initialled focused on delivering bespoke leading edge postal sortation solutions to our Postal customers, this role will be part of a Dev Ops team responsible for delivering software changes and enhancements to Programmes across the RMS portfolio.

This position involves a range of activities relating to software change for end users, and while not exhaustive, the key skills and activities are:

• Design, contribute to architecture and develop software to critical postal sortation services.
• Bring your imaginative, creative thinking and problem solving skills to the team and contribute your ideas to ensure we deliver innovation to our customers.
• Your curiosity will see you research new technologies for use and adaptation in programmes and R&D projects.
• Take requirements and transform them into appropriate software design and code.
• Identify and employ suitable software modelling and development tools and techniques.
• To investigate issues arising in the field or during testing and to provide solutions.
• Write documentation for software such as User Guides, Design Documents, Configuration Management plans and Coding Standards.
• Collaborate with your colleagues and manage your time effectively to support requirements capture and testing of software, and to ensure an integrated approach to meet cost and schedule targets.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients across all levels of the organisation both internally and with the customer.
• Support customer demonstrations of current change work as it is developed.
• Any additional Programme related tasks assigned that are within area of expertise, competence and skill set.

What's in it for you?

• To be part of something challenging that gives you a chance to make a difference
• Working with a supportive team who wants to see you thrive and grow
• The opportunity to learn and master new skills
• Corporate membership of Professional Bodies
• Support in attainment of Professional Certification and Continued Education

What the role entails:

Some of the main duties of the Software Developer will include:

• Natural curiosity and imaginative problem solving skill. You might be the person who is described as having 'out of the box' thinking.
• Proven skills in software design and development using Java (J2EE) and/or C/C++.
• Demonstrable experience in DevSecOps techniques and concepts.
• Modelling in UML using such tools as Enterprise Architect or Rhapsody.
• Thorough understanding of mocking and unit testing frameworks.
• Ability to work accurately from detailed System Specifications Software Requirement Specifications and to be able to trace requirements coverage.
• Experience of working using Agile development principles and methods.
• Capable of self-motivation and direction, able to work flexibly with minimal guidance
• Confidence and ability to communicate with a wide range of audiences on sometimes complex

What experience you need to be the successful Software Developer:

• Experience of Message Driven Architecture such as Apache Kafka.
• Experience using Hibernate, Spring, Jenkins and Maven.
• Experience in mentoring junior team members.
• Knowledge and experience in Machine Learning, especially object detection/recognition, as well as use of VR/AR.
• Experience working in an integrated project team delivering under and Agile framework.
• Experience in PL/SQL in Oracle RDBMS
• Experience in GitLab CI/CD Pipelines
• Experience with HTML5 and AngularJS
• Appropriate Security Clearance.

This really is a fantastic opportunity for a Software Developer to progress their career. If you are interested please apply as soon as possible as this position will be filled quickly so don't miss out!

If you are interested in applying for this Software Developer position you must eligible for UK security clearance up to SC level.

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