Lead Software Engineer

Job Role: Lead Software Engineer

Location: Near Portsmouth

Type: Permanent

Salary/Rate: GBP40,000 - GBP50,000

Start Date: ASAP

Clearance: Government Security Clearance or Willing to Undergo

Lead Software Engineer - Permanent - Near Portsmouth - GBP40,000 - GBP50,000

Primarily working with the Product Team that is responsible for a suite of Command and Control software applications. The software is operational within a broad range of architectures, by a number of customers, in countries throughout the world and is used for military operations, homeland defence, crisis management and conflict resolution.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Responsibilities:

• Take full responsibility for a large work packages and development activities
• Responsibility for Requirements Analysis and Definition
• Understand the scope of the customer requirements, and identify if software design meets or is exceeding the requirement
• Identify changes to requirements which may provide an opportunity for additional stretch proposals
• Act as the Principal Design Authority for a work package, providing technical guidance to more junior engineers during the production of Operational Concept Descriptions (Applications Specifications), Design Descriptions and Test Descriptions and during the Implementation phase
• Supervise/assist more junior members of the team to carry out software production activities as required
• Review and comment constructively on other engineers' work; ie design, test and user documentation as well as code reviews
• Take responsibility for ensuring work packages are completed on schedule and within budget
• Take responsibility for configuration management of software
• Assist with the set up/design of a project's software and hardware development environment
• Assist with integration and configuration management within a project
• Take responsibility for maintenance of the project development environment
• Build up technical knowledge of company's existing products and any new product and project developments
• Carry out all above tasks in accordance with our client's Quality System and published Software Production processes

Organisational Responsibilities:

• Assist with the production of technical sections of bids, proposals and studies
• Provide technical assistance to Sales and Capture, particularly in supporting the preparation of bids, and assisting with customer demonstrations
• Take responsibility for the installation and support of fielded systems along with the estimation of work packages and other engineering management activities
• Maintain records of team's progress against plans and provide formal progress reports on the team's activities, including risk status and costs-to-complete, to the Project Manager
• Take responsibility for the Supervision, Training and development of other employees as required. May be requested to act as a mentor to more junior employees; and provide technical management to the team
• Undertake any other reasonable task as requested

Essential criteria:

• Proven commercial experience of architecting, developing and testing complex web applications
• Experience of both and front and Back End development (with a bias towards Front End dev) using the following technologies: Java (J2E), Spring - Spring MVC, HTML, JavaScript - experience with Dojo Toolkit, Service Oriented Architecture - including SOAP, and Restful Services, XML, JSON

Desired criteria:

• Experience of UK Government working practices
• Understanding of developing application for use within secure environments
• The ideal candidate would also have experience of the following technologies/applications: Maven, Ant, Test Driven Development (TDD), Selenium, QUnit, Groovy
• Applicants must be able to hold and maintain UK Government clearances

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