Lead Software Engineer

RTX; Winnersh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension Scheme

25 days holiday + buy/sell 5 days

Company bonus scheme

Flexible Benefits (Health Cashplan, O)

Enhanced sick pay

Enhanced family leave

Job summary

RTX is recruiting a Lead Software Engineer in Winnersh (Hybrid) to design, develop and deliver high‑quality software within an agile team. The role focuses on integrating hardware, software and courseware components for UK armed forces projects, with collaboration across suppliers and end users.

You will drive technical direction, contribute to the product roadmap and ensure robust testing through unit and integration tests, while maintaining focus on security and performance in a defence

Qualifications

• Strong experience in high level languages such as C#, Java or C++.
• Experience using development lifecycle tools like GitLab or Atlassian suite.
• Experience delivering to gov/defence customers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and run code using industry best practice.
• Contribute to the completion of features within the product roadmap.
• Perform first line peer reviews and provide direction and guidance around the review.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of practice and code within the team.
• Provide technical direction within the team.
• Design and develop new product functionality.

Skills

C# / Java / C++

Tools

GitLab

Atlassian suite

Job description

Location: Winnersh, Wokingham Position Role Type: Hybrid Lead Software Engineer Permanent Winnersh

Winnersh Benefits:

• £: Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution) 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture

37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements. Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early! Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role. Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year. Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.

About us

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence. As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers. With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development. Through advanced technology and our people’s expertise, our Training Transformation Services is modernising what’s possible in the training and preparation of our armed forces. With a real blended approach to learning and using the latest innovative systems and technology, we ensure our service men and women really are prepared for any situation.

Role & Responsibilities

This role is based within the Training Transformation business unit, who provide training systems and simulators to the whole of the UK armed forces. The initial project will be within the Submarine Training simulation & emulation team. The software engineer is responsible for the design, delivery and integration of innovative and high-quality software products within an Agile software delivery team. This is an opportunity to innovate and try new things; to fearlessly challenge and question; to learn and progress in an inclusive and supportive culture; to be rewarded for the vital contribution you make. This project requires the managed integration and delivery of a complex device, consisting of hardware, software and courseware components, interacting with multiple stakeholders from suppliers (who may be within Raytheon UK, or external) to the customer and end-users within UK MOD and is key to the success of the integration activity. You will achieve this through working as a multi-disciplined team to deliver innovative and high value software products, to achieve the desired business synergies and value realisation. Personnel assigned to this role possess the basic knowledge, skills and experience but the organization desires the following additional knowledge, skills or experience: Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Design, build and run code using industry best practice. You will help in defining the evolvement of best practice and in the supporting of estimation activities.
• Contribute to the completion of features within the product roadmap. Your decisions will be of significant value and will contribute to the overall success of the programme
• Perform first line peer reviews and provide direction and guidance around the review
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of practice and code within the team
• Provide technical direction within the team
• Design and develop new product functionality
• Contribute and produce test artefacts including unit tests and integration tests that will form part of the continuous delivery mechanism

Required experience

• Strong experience of working and delivering in high level languages such as C#, Java or C++.
• Experience of using development lifecycle tools such as GitLab or the Atlassian suite.
• Experience working on classified security classifications and delivery of solutions to gov/defence customers
• Ability to quickly form effective working relationships with all stakeholders required.
• Configuration management processes and systems.

Desirable experience

• Experience of Python scripting
• Knowledge of GUI toolkits such as React, WPF etc
• Knowledge of Secure by Design (SbD) principles.
• Experience building enterprise level applications or services
• Experience of working in a simulation and/or training environment
• Experience using TDD, BDD and working understanding of SOLID, DevOps or DevSecOps principles
• Experience of working and delivering within an Agile software delivery team

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.