Software Engineer

Our Client has an immediate requirement for an experienced Software Engineer, to monitor, assess and produce innovative real-time computing product concepts, demonstrators, standards and specifications, both bespoke and 'off the-shelf'. To evolve from the software requirements a design and test philosophy in order to produce a top level and detailed design that will be used as a baseline for the maintainable software implementation including the prediction of software size and performance. To produce unit and integration test descriptions that incorporate the appropriate test philosophies. To produce fully tested code units in the appropriate software language that fully implement all requirements on the target hardware, using the software detailed design as the baseline.

This application (AGMA) is required by the Aircraft Carrier (QEC) programme to manage flight deck and hanger operations, aircraft flight planning, crew assignments and weapon movements.

As a Software Engineer on this application the main responsibilities will involve:

Development of this large, web deployed software application. The initial schedule envisages a development project before moving into a support phase. As a Software Engineer you will build, integrate and conduct evaluations of the existing software and methods used before

developing the next release of AGMA software.

Experience of software development using Agile type methods.

Experience of writing software applications using modern visual, web

deployed tools. C# experience is essential and Silverlight experience desirable.

Experience of MS Visual Studio essential and MS Entity Framework

desirable

Knowledge of database design and associated software architectures.

Proven track record working in a software development team.

Proven ability to accurately estimate software code complexity and size.

You will:

Have Recent software integration activities

HVE Successfully achieved test and acceptance on a complex, multi-disciplined development project.

Be able to present ideas and explain the rationale in both written and

verbal form, including the preparation of requirement and design

documentation.

Preferably have previous experience on a Royal Navy and/or Aviation project.

The role will require some travel within the UK.

To apply for this position, you must be eligible to live and work in theUKand either possess or be able to obtain UK MOD Security Clearance to SC Level.