Software Engineer

Software Engineer - Autonomy

Location:             Broad Oak

Duration:             12 months

Rate:                   £50.79 per hour PAYE or £67.02 per hour Umbrella (inside IR35)

The purpose of the role is to perform Software Design, Development, Documentation, Integration and Test activities within the Autonomy team of Underwater Battlespace & Autonomy (UWB&A) within Products. The applicant will be capable of working independently with limited technical direction or as part of a small team working under the Nautomate Scrum Master.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the maintenance and further development and enhancement of multiple software systems within the Autonomy group.
• Designing, reviewing, developing, testing, documenting, configuring and delivering software products to the agreed standards and procedures using the specified tools.
• Testing software products sufficiently to ensure software product quality is maintained and minimal or no re-work is required.
• Investigating and resolving obsolescence issues and problems raised during any stage of the development lifecycle, including software and system integration, qualification, and in-service trials.
• Communicating effectively, identifying early potential risks, seeking clarification and providing feedback to the software and integration lead.
• Ensuring that a good working knowledge of Maritime Services software related processes and product deliverables is maintained.
• Participating in the estimating of bids to ensure that they capture all requirements, customer obligations and acceptance criteria, achievable solutions with acceptable levels of technical risk and conformance with company and product policies and standards.
• Participating in formal Agile Scrum events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective).
• Supporting software integration, test, evaluation and acceptance activities including integration of any sub-contracted software components.

Proven Ability / Key Skills

• Excellent software coding, integration and testing skills.
• Extensive debugging proven ability.
• Good proven ability in writing multi-threaded applications.
• Knowledge of configuration control systems.
• Extensive knowledge of programming languages, Object Oriented programming and design patterns including C++.
• Software development expertise.
• Knowledge of Python would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of MQTT or any message broker is desirable.
• An understanding of the Linux Operating System is desirable.
• An understanding of the Eclipse development environment is desirable.

Additional

Please note, due to the sensitive nature of the project involved all applicants must be capable of gaining a UK MOD Security Clearance to SC level.