Principal Software Engineer Basildon, East of England, England
Leonardo
Full Time
Basildon, East of England, England
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
Closing Date:
This vacancy may close at any time, if this role is of interest to you we recommend you apply as soon as possible.
The Opportunity
At Leonardo, we have a fantastic new opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer. Leonardo is a global high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. Headquartered in Italy, Leonardo has over 45,000 employees, of which 7,000 are based in the UK.
We want to develop a new generation of features and capabilities. We need innovative software solutions to help us with that mission and we need you to create them. You will be a key member of a team and working in a community of world-class software engineers who will continuously improve, collaborate and innovate with other engineers to create market-leading products.
WHAT YOU’LL GET
- Flexible working: We offer our employees the time and flexibility they need to enjoy a balanced life through flexible hours and part time options
- Custom working: The role may be a mixture of home based and onsite
- Flexible benefits: Our company-funded approach to flexible benefits allows employees to make choices appropriate for them. Each employee has access to a wide choice of lifestyle, health and wellbeing options best suited to their individual lifestyle goals.
- Network groups : To support our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion, we have a range of network groups for colleagues :
o Carers (employees caring for family or friends)
o Enable (supporting people with disabilities)
o Equalise (development of a gender balanced workforce)
o Pride (promoting equality for all LGBTQ+ individuals)
o Ethnicity Inclusion (developing a more ethnically based workforce)
o Wellbeing (promoting & supporting employee wellbeing) - Training : Free access to Coursera which provides more than 4,000 online courses
- Continuous Learning : You will be supported in your ongoing professional development through training and mentoring
- Investors in People : We are proud recipients of the Investors in People Silver Award
- Employee Assistance Programme : Providing free and confidential mental health support
- Annual leave: We offer 25 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays and 12 flexi days
To find out about all of our Company benefits please visit: https://uk.leonardocompany.com/en/people-careers/life-at-leonardo/company-benefits
What you will do
- User Interface design and implementation.
- Identifying and exploiting HMI Methods & Patterns for functional decoupling.
- Designing and maintaining a scalability solution incorporating a Librarian component.
- Implementation primarily in C# on Windows.
- Contributing to automated testing / continuous integration / verification.
- Execute a support strategy and manage updates.
- Managing Free and Open Source Software Licensing issues (with legal support.)
- Support for module and system-level integration, execution of testing and analysis of test recordings and results.
- Support the team with real-world integration and trials where applicable.
- Using tools associated with Iterative development lifecycles (Jira / DevOps)
- Interaction as part of a self-organising agile team, through software development stages of design, implementation, test and integration
- Contribution to Software Development Plans, balancing the needs of a given project with appropriate company and external processes.
- Development of software test plans and specifications.
You must be eligible for full security clearance. For more information and guidance please visit : https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels
What we are looking for
Experience that includes following:
- Development of new applications to meet user expectations and within formal constraints.
- Familiarity with the use of patterns, templates and library components.
- Development using C#
- Experience with developing Windows applications.
- Familiarity with Visual Studio.
- Experience of using Iterative development lifecycles (for example tailored Agile.)
- Experience using tools associated with Iterative development lifecycles (Jira / DevOps.)
- Familiarity with development to design and coding standards.
We have a large team and a wide variety of projects and applications under development at Leonardo. You will have the opportunity to contribute and gain experience with a variety of tools and approaches. It would also be an advantage if you have some experience in the following:
- Development in C++ and/or experience with similar OO approaches.
- Embedded and device dedicated applications.
- Model based development approaches.
- Unit Testing and other structured inspection approaches.
Life at Leonardo
Discover life at Leonardo – a company for extraordinary people
Our UK locations
We have offices around the UK, including Basildon, Bristol, Edinburgh, Lincoln, Luton, Southampton and Yeovil
Committed to Inclusion
We are committed to creating a working environment that is designed to provide everyone with the opportunity to succeed.
Leonardo
https://uk.leonardo.com/
London, United Kingdom
Alessandro Profumo
$2 to $5 billion (USD)
5001 to 10000 Employees
Company - Public
Aerospace & Defence
1948
