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Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Overview of the role

Thales have an exciting opportunity and are looking to recruit an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a background in embedded engineering to join our growing software community across our Glasgow and Reading sites. Working as part of a growing and diverse team, you will work across a diverse product portfolio that encompasses cutting edge land, sea and air products and fulfil an integral software engineering role, involved in many aspects of software development across the full software

life-cycle.

You will be in a hands-on software development role as well as collaborating with and influencing the software leadership team, reviewing and improving the software development process throughout the Thales software function. Thales operates a hybrid working model where it is possible to blend working from home and on site. This role is open to full or part-time candidates.

Responsibilities

You will:

• Provide technical leadership and ownership for a software design and be comfortable in customer facing situations

• Write software in C++/C that follows software design and interface control descriptions/specifications and adheres to the software architectures written in UML

• Working collaboratively with other engineering functions to analyse solution/product level requirements and operational concepts, perform trade studies and contribute to a solution level architecture

• Lead the generation/specification of high quality software system and lower level requirements (for larger software systems), lead/contribute to the development of software architectures that consider the constraints placed upon the system, write clear and concise software design definitions and record/capture design decisions/rationale

• Experience in writing unit tests to exercise the software written and where appropriate automating these tests in line with the project/business strategy and Continuous Integration process

• Proactively be part of an Agile Scrum team and attend and contribute to Agile meetings, maintaining and progressing own backlog items in Jira, in-line with personal and team commitments made in sprint planning sessions

• Support peer reviews of others work and generation of materials for major gate reviews their work

• Provide coaching and technical support to junior engineers

Requirements

We would love to hear from you if:

• You are a self-motivated software professional with seven to ten year experience in

• Experience in IBM DOORS and Rhapsody/Artisan/Enterprise Architect and Visual Studio

• Proficient in Jira for backlog management and metrics generation

• Experience in developing with languages C++ and C are essential, as well as experience of working with RTOS/OS

• Static analysis tool experience (e.g Klockwork or Coverity)

• Experience working within a software team in an Agile environment with exposure to Continuous Integration and desirably Continuous Deployment

• Developing software systems to meet international safety systems such as IEC 61508 or DO-178C is desirable

• Developed software systems to meet the security needs of the customer and other stakeholders

This would be an excellent opportunity for an individual with aspirations to develop technically with routes to specialist and expert.

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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