Location: Farnborough (3-4 days per week onsite)

This position is with a leading defence supplier, and sits within the Cyber & Encryption Security Realm. Due to the nature of the work, candidates must have sole British Nationality and hold, or be eligible to obtain, UK Security Clearance (SC).

Role details:

Join a Global communications company, where the innovations have helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments, and militaries around the world communicate! - even in the hardest-to-reach places!

Technology Innovators Awards Gold Honoree | 2021

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This company is growing their team and are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to work on their Cyber and Information Assurance projects.

The Software Lead Engineer must have recent experience with embedded software, and can work across the full project lifecycle.

Responsibilities include:

• Analysing software requirements, high level architecture design, low level detailed design, implementation, test and integration.
• Generation of estimates and assisting with the planning process.
• Line management of a team of engineers, including career development and mentoring.
• Lead the team to deliver, assisting with design issues and supervising progress
• Ensuring software developed within the team is of high quality and follows the defined development processes.
• Update and refinement of software development methodologies and tools.

Experience needed:

• Full life-cycle software development experience
• Recent experience using C, or C++ in embedded applications, experience targeting PC environments an advantage.
• A sound understanding of operating system concepts such as multi-threading, process scheduling, inter-process communication, memory management and I/O
• Scripting expertise with bash, python or similar
• Proven experience with Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and programming skills
• Configuration management and version control e.g. GitHub

Desirable experience:

• Experience in the Defence / Aerospace or safety regulated environment would be advantageous
• Design for Security.
• An understanding of:
  • Digital security technology.
  • Continuous integration, unit test and static analysis.
  • x86 architecture, hardware programming and device driver models.
  • Implementation of Graphical User Interfaces.
  • NVMe.
• Experience of developing for microcontrollers, ideally RISC-V.
• Experience of developing encryption or security products.
• Networking technologies, network security and network programming.
• Requirements analysis, capture and management using IBM Rational DOORS.
• Proven C++ programming experience (including the Standard Template Library) on Linux and/or Windows platforms.
• RUST knowledge.
• Familiarity with cross compilation toolchains and on target debugging.
• Previous experience of leading within a software development program, including the mentoring or leading of other software developers is desirable.
• Ideally qualified to degree-level or equivalent experience in a Physics or Engineering based subject, such as; Electronics, Hardware, Computer Science, Software or Systems Engineering etc.

Apply today via the link provided!