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Senior Software / Systems Engineering Consultant

Home-based, United Kingdom (UK), TP Group [TPG-SS/SEC-001]

Field(s) of expertise
Software Engineering Space Systems Engineering
Job type
Permanent
Education
BachelorDiploma
Deadline
Closed

About this job

Due to continued expansion of the business, we have a great opportunity for a Senior Software / Systems Engineering Consultant to join our friendly software / systems engineering team, which works to support the successful delivery of a wide variety of complex solutions across a number of sectors. The successful candidate will spend time supporting our clients to deliver, develop, procure and validate complex systems with a high proportion of software.

Company benefits include:

  • 25 days’ holiday
  • Discretionary annual bonus scheme
  • Company pension scheme

 

Responsibilities

  • Providing technical advice to ensure solutions are developed in accordance with requirement and commercial constraints.
  • Supporting positive customer-satisfaction through ensuring that customer technical needs are both understood and delivered.
  • Reviewing and advising on technical software / system requirements.
  • Supporting the production of technical reports and proposals.
  • Implementation of Real-Time embedded software for safety critical and/or mission critical applications.
  • Implementation of Desktop / Web .NET solutions.
  • Able to work as part of an Agile team, supporting colleagues and accepting support from others.
  • Working across the full software development lifecycle, including the production of artefacts to evidence adherence to a quality controlled process.
  • Either working on customer sites (predominately in the South West of England or at our offices in Wincanton or Fareham.

Profile

Essential Requirements:

  • Have strong mathematical and software engineering mind-set.
  • Proven experience in delivering a wide variety of software solutions as part of complex systems.
  • Outstanding oral and written technical reporting / communication skills (MS Office), comfortable engaging with customers / stakeholders.
  • Experience of working with industry standards. g. those associated with Software quality and safety.
  • Proficient at writing SMART System / Software Requirements.
  • Proficient and efficient at writing code that is understandable by others and testable.
  • Able to work and collaborate as part of a larger team.
  • Proven problem solver.
  • Have 5 (or ideally more) years prior software experience.
  • Experience in supporting other engineers to build their skills.
  • Believer in the Agile processes that promote regular feedback, evolution of features and continuous testing.
  • Comfortable with working on Defence projects.

 

Preferred but not essential:

  • 5+ years of experience of Real-Time software.
  • Experience of MISRA C++.
  • Experience of software that executes on both PC and non-PC hardware.
  • 5+ years of other software technologies e.g. C#, WPF (XAML).
  • Experience of data storage / exchange technologies and protocols.
  • Experience of configuration management and requirements management (and associated tools).
  • Experience of software design, e.g. UML.
  • Able to contribute towards process improvement initiatives.
  • Hold a HND or Degree preferably one of: Computer Science, Electronics, Maths, Physics, or similar.
  • Flexible and able to support long stints on customers sites (across the South West) as part of a blended team.

 

Other requirements:

  • Candidates must have an existing right to live and work in the UK.
  • Candidates will need to undergo an internal BPSS check prior to gaining site access.
  • Candidates will also need to either hold a current SC clearance or be willing and eligible to undergo a Security Clearance check (SC level) upon starting their employment with the company. To gain SC clearance you will normally need at least 5 years’ UK residency.

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