| Location: Havant | Salary: Negotiable |
| Sector: IT & Telecoms | Specialism: |
| Type: Contract | Contact: Jack Gardner |
Job Title: Software Engineer
Contract duration: 6 months
Job Description: This role is for a Software Engineer to work as part of the RMS UK Engineering & Technology (E&T) Team on a variety of Defence, Commercial and Cyber programmes.
Duties include:
* Design and develop Airborne Mission Systems, Tactical Mission Systems and ground-based training systems.
* Provide creative technical solutions to commercial business challenges.
* Conduct research into new technologies for use and adaptation in programmes and IRAD projects.
* Convert requirements into appropriate software design and code, documented in adherence to relevant standards.
* Contribute, where appropriate, discussions on architectural decisions to create solutions to requirements.
* Identify and employ suitable software modelling and development tools and techniques.
* Provide estimates for work and contribute to the production of metrics to track progress.
* Ensure software is developed through the SDLC according to the relevant engineering processes.
* Develop software in accordance with requirements and agreed design, with consideration for software quality and future maintenance.
* Produce the required documentation for software such as User Guides, Design Documents and Coding Standards.
* Ensure collaboration with other engineering disciplines to support requirements capture and testing of software, and to ensure an integrated approach to meet cost and schedule targets.
* Ensure Configuration Management documentation is produced accurately.
* Be active in transferring knowledge to staff using documentation and modelling of design and code, user guides, development guides, white board sessions, seminars and 1-2-1 training.
Required skills, qualifications and experience:
* Experience of Airborne Mission Systems, Training Systems, Postal or Cyber domains.
* Proven skills in software design and development using some of: Ada 95, Java (J2EE), C/C++, C#.
* Experience in Real-Time Embedded Systems.
* Experience and understanding of safety-critical systems and constraints.
* Ability to work accurately from detailed System Specifications Software Requirement Specifications and to be able to trace requirements coverage.
* Ability to support testing and to resolve issues arising.
* To investigate issues arising in the field or during testing and to provide solutions.
* Strong background in software development techniques including e.g. design patterns.
* Ability to develop software fulfilling requirements to optimise software for speed, memory constraints, maintainability etc.
* Ability to design metrics for work and to use them to track progress.
* Proven ability to produce innovative, technically compliant and cost-effective solutions.
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