Senior Software Engineers (C#)

General Dynamics Missions System International; Wales; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor in the UK is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on Research and Development projects in tactical communications. This role involves collaborating with various engineering functions, analyzing and implementing software, and ensuring security and human factors are considered. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from £45,600 to £60,000, along with excellent flexible benefits, while promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Benefits

Compressed nine-day fortnight

Personalized career development plan

Flexible working environment

Qualifications

• Strong Microsoft Windows Platform development experience.
• Recent experience developing C# applications.
• Familiarity with containerisation and virtualisation.

Responsibilities

• Analyse requirements and implement software components.
• Work with System Engineering to meet design requirements.
• Capture software design and document changes.

Skills

Microsoft Windows Platform development

C# (including WPF)

Containerisation and virtualisation strategies

DevOps practices

Job description

These roles are for Senior Software Engineer to work primarily on Research and Development projects in the tactical communication domain. This role will entail requirements elicitation design peer reviews implementation test and delivery for projects of differing maturity levels from prototypes to production quality.

This role requires working collaboratively with other engineers from several functions that are developing and maintaining the currently deployed system. In addition to Research and Development projects this role occasionally requires developing and supporting the underlying product software.

Typical responsibilities include :

• Analyse requirements design implement and test software subsystem components validating designs against requirements and assumptions.
• Work proactively with System Engineering and specialist areas to ensure software design and implementation meet requirements including security safety and human factors considerations.
• Capture software design and modelling using OO MBSE and investigate and debug software integration issues on target hardware and software environments.
• Identify and document specification and interface changes supporting product and integration testing including on-site customer demonstrations when required.
• Drive best practice and continuous improvement in software development processes.

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Qualifications : Essential :

• Strong Microsoft Windows Platform development experience including a good understanding of Windows Operating System architecture development frameworks services and security features
• Recent experience developing C# (including WPF ) software applications or Windows components and services within a software team with Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft frameworks and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with / experience of containerisation and virtualisation strategies and their applications; preferably with hands on experience.
• Experience of full development lifecycle

Additional Information :

Salary for this position is 45600 to 60000 depending on experience plus our excellent flexible benefits package.

We offer hybrid working - for this role ideally we are looking for an average of 2 days per week per month on site.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose offering impressive benefits :

• A compressed nine-day fortnight and compressed hours - which means every other Friday off.
• A personalized career development plan alongside regular progress reviews - supporting and valuing your progression within the Company.
• A flexible working environment where your contributions are recognized and rewarded with flexible benefits

We believe in maintaining a diverse workplace - inclusive of beliefs cultural background job experiences thoughts and ideas. If who we are and what we do resonates with you we welcome you to join our inclusive team!

Our success is fuelled by our colleagues and the wide variety of backgrounds perspectives and skills they bring to the Company.

We are a Disability Confident Employer as such we offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.

Please email if you would like your application to be considered under the DC Scheme.

All successful / appointed applicants must be able to obtain a level of UK Security clearance that is appropriate for the role and undertake suitable Right to work checks

Remote Work : No

Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

Robotics,Electrical Engineering,GIS,C / C++,Technical Writing,Visio,Special Operations,Telecommunication,Geometry,Oil & Gas Experience,MPLS,Systems Analysis

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1