Software Systems Engineer - Defence and Space

Recruiter
Datasource Computer Employment Ltd
Location
Bristol
Salary
Excellent Salary
Posted
18 Jun 2017
Closes
24 Jun 2017
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Job Role: Software Systems Engineer - Defence and Space

Location: Bristol

Type: Permanent

Salary/Rate: Excellent Salary

Start Date: ASAP

Clearance: SC Clearance

Software Systems Engineer - Permanent - Bristol -Excellent Salary

Our client seeks a versatile, knowledgeable and experienced senior software or systems engineer for its spacecraft ground segment activities. The successful candidate will become part of the successful operations group with the responsibility for supporting the overall specification, design, deployment and acceptance of spacecraft ground software systems.

The first assignment involves performing a customer facing onsite role and will interface with all levels of the project from the end customers, users and sub-contractors. The role is strategically important for our client's business and will allow the successful candidate to progress their career within the company.

Key Responsibilities:

- Taking responsibility for key elements of the system, implemented and delivered by a sub-contractor
- Maintaining the requirements baseline for those elements
- Ensuring design and implementation meet the requirements
- Analysis/preparation of change requests and processing of sub-contractor change responses
- Review of documentation (datapacks) including, design, test plans, test reports, user manuals etc.
- Attendance of acceptance campaigns both at the sub-contractor site and end user sites
- Analysis and disposition of Software Problem Reports
- Technical support to provide input to customer documentation/datapacks
- Interfacing with the customer and users to discuss problems and changes as needed
- Travel to the customer site or other offices as required to assist with workshops, testing or providing support

Essential Skills:

- The successful candidate will have a software engineering background and be able to demonstrate a thorough systems engineering approach from requirements through design and verification of delivered and accepted systems
- The project standards must be adhered to and therefore an understanding of good software standards are required and an ability to work within project guidelines
- The role will be customer facing, so the candidate must be fluent in English and confident in their role representing the company and interfacing with the customer and operators

Desirable Skills:

- Software engineering background on large scale/complex projects
- Experienced in software/system design including architecture and interface design
- Experience in requirements specification and management
- Experience with formal verification processes
- Understanding of Product Assurance and adherence to project standards
- Linux systems

You will be required to hold a minimum of SC security clearance. If you do not hold an active SC clearance please familiarise yourself with the vetting process before applying.

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