Defence Software Engineer - Industrial Placement (London)

Leonardo UK Ltd; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 7,800 - 12,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

12 flexi-days

15% pension

Mental health support

Private healthcare

Job summary

Leonardo UK Ltd in London seeks an Industrial Placement Software Engineer to develop and maintain our knowledge management software for the MOD. You will work with a Defence Analytics team in Central London, applying your Computer Science training to real-world problems.

You'll contribute to front-end development in C#/.NET, collaborate across teams, support database tasks, and participate in monthly production runs while travelling within the UK for delivery support.

Qualifications

• Computer Science background or other STEM degree with programming emphasis.
• Front-End technologies include HTML, CSS, JavaScript and frameworks like ASP.NET.
• Software prototyping, design and development using C#, .NET, XAML and WPF.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Principal Software Engineer to prototype, design, develop, and maintain the in-house front-end app and product website.
• Database management: support maintenance, development and querying of the back-end database.
• Participate in monthly production runs to deliver updated assessments to partners and address integration challenges.
• Provide ad hoc support to MOD customers, often on short notice.
• Travel within the UK for customer and delivery support.

Skills

Computer Science

Front-End Dev

C#/.NET

WPF/XAML

Problem Solving

Customer Support

Project Management

Education

STEM degree

Tools

ASP.NET

SQL

HTML/CSS/JS

Job description

Leonardo UK Ltd in London seeks an Industrial Placement Software Engineer to develop and maintain our knowledge management software for the MOD. You will work with a Defence Analytics team in Central London, applying your Computer Science training to real-world problems.

You'll contribute to front-end development in C#/.NET, collaborate across teams, support database tasks, and participate in monthly production runs while travelling within the UK for delivery support.