Software Solutions Engineer

Job description

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Thales Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) UK is a principal supplier of UAS, EW and Radar equipment to the UK armed forces, as well as an exporter of these capabilities world-wide.

We are a forward looking business that develops cutting edge products:

Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) which are revolutionising modern warfare Radars that are capable of detecting foot prints in the grass when someone has walked across a field Digital Radar Electronic Support Measures (RESM) that provides situational awareness and identify threats even in busy Electronic Transmission Environments Radar Electronic Countermeasures (RECM) that can protect assets by denying tactical advantage and distracting incoming threats.

You will be a key member of the Software Development team based at the Thales site in Crawley, and will have the opportunity to collaborate with Thales sites in the UK and overseas.

Key responsibilities range from the design, implementation and test of Human Computer Interface, to Signal processing and middleware products, always keeping in line with the best industry standard tools and methods.

As a People 1st Employer, we are enthusiastic about providing you with opportunities to advance your engineering career and are committed to giving our employees the support they need to reach their professional goals. We offer opportunities for people with ambition to attain greater levels of responsibility, either in a Technical or Managerial capacity, providing development pathways towards roles such as Engineering Manager, Architect or a recognised Thales Specialist or Expert.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

Undertake software development, test and integration activities to verify programme requirements as identified by the Engineering / Software Lead.

• To specify and prove designs to meet project operational requirements.
• Supporting the generation of relevant development plans.
• Contributing to the generation of project cost and schedule information.
• To ensure the product is delivered on time and to budget
• Support the management of project risks.
• Ensure that the project safety and airworthiness requirements are addressed in a manner consistent with company processes.

Skills:

Appreciation of the software life cycle and processes.

DOORS

UML / Rational Rhapsody

Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 / 2005, QT

Ada 95

Jira / Subversion / GIT

Microsoft Windows 10 / 7 / XP, Server 2016 / 2003, Linux

Customer Acceptance

Experience:

• Experience in full software lifecycle (requirements, development, test, integration)
• Desirable - Industry knowledge
• Desirable - Knowledge of Agile - Scrum

Qualifications:

Degree Level: Computing/Software Engineering discipline.

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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