Lead Software Engineer

QuEST Global Engineering Limited ,
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh
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Salary: £76000 to 81000 DOE + pension matched up to 8% + life assurance

Overview

Post Covid Permanent positions with QuEST Global within the UK Defence sector. QuEST are actively recruiting Engineers for when we reopen our co-located office in Edinburgh. We have a Permanent vacancy for a Lead Software Engineer to provide services to one of our major UK clients. Role Overview: You will be initially working as a software engineer within an integrated project team and be responsible for creating high quality and robust designs and code; for fully documenting and recording your work products; keeping them under configuration management and providing plans and progress reports. Once you have gained sufficient domain experience, you will be responsible for the technical leadership and people management of a small team of software engineers. This position is for applications and middleware software development. Skills and Experience required: A proven track record in leading a software team in the design and delivery of a complex software solution Ability to provide technical leadership, guidance and mentoring as necessary. Able to work well within a multi-discipline team Experience of software project management activities including: software planning, estimation, tracking, and reporting. Experience of the full software lifecycle including: Requirements Management, Design, Implementation, Test and Integration. Programming in an object-oriented programming language. C++ is mandatory. Confident in Object Oriented Design and UML (Unified Modelling Language) Experience of developing software for a real-time embedded environment Experience with real time operating systems; VxWorks would be ideal. Familiarity with Model Driven Engineering Experience in some of: Rhapsody, MatLab/Simulink, DOORS, Dimensions similar tools is beneficial Some of the teams are moving towards agile so familiarity with Agile and Scrum techniques and JIRA, BitBucket, Git is desirable but not essential Preferred background in Automotive, Rail, Transportation, Aerospace or other domains that are tightly regulated and safety critical Due to the nature of this work, Candidates must have a current UK passport and able to achieve UK Security Clearance – SC level. Some travel to other customers and/or QuEST sites in the UK depending on requirements. Excellent benefits package for Permanent engineers include: Pension, Life assurance and re-location package where applicable. In this current climate, we are holding Telephone and Video interviews in preparation for hire. To apply please follow the link or visit our website https://www.quest-global.com/careers/ QuEST Global are an engineering solutions company with a proven track record of serving the product lifecycle needs of high technology companies. A pioneer in offshore product development engineering, QuEST Global is one of the largest engineering service providers catering to diversified industries such as Aerospace, Defence, Rail, Automotive, Space and Oil and Gas, with electronics, software and mechanical engineering solutions. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89937544

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