Principal Software Engineer Job at GD Mission Systems, United Kingdom

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  • GD Mission Systems
  • United Kingdom

Job Description

Responsibilities for this Position


Location: Oakdale Ct, Oakdale, Blackwood NP12 4AD, UK

Employment Type: Employment Type: Permanent

Company Description

General Dynamics Mission Systems engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services that enable customers to successfully execute missions across all domains of operation. With a global team of more than 13,000 top professionals, we partner with the best in industry to expand the bounds of innovation in the defence and scientific arenas. In the UK, we are leading the way in avionics and communication systems. Given the nature of our work and who we are, we value trust, honesty, alignment and transparency.

Job Description

This role is for a lead engineer experienced with Microsoft solutions and frameworks including architecting and developing solutions based on these technologies as well as developing applications utilizing the underlying Microsoft ecosystem.

This role requires both working individually and leading a small team of engineers to oversee the project delivery through the full development and test lifecycle.

This role is for a Principal Software Engineer to work primarily on Research and Development projects in the tactical communication domain. The 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

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 and .Net) 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 59,200 to 75,000 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 disabilityconfident@gd-ms.uk 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

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Job Tags

Permanent employment, Full time, Flexible hours, 2 days per week,

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