Software Engineer

About the Company

To drive the evolution and deployment of Data and AI capabilities within the businesses and to our customers in order to increase growth in orders and increased customer satisfaction.

About the Role

As part of a newly established software development team, the Factory Software Engineer will work with stakeholders throughout the Thales UK businesses, to implement technology solutions that support an integrated approach to data integration/curation deployed across Thales UK.

Responsibilities

• Deliver solutions that meet the needs of the strategy and design, collaborate with teams to deliver on those designs.
• Support solutions both developed by the team and from other teams throughout their lifecycles enabling multi-deployment of those solutions through a catalogue strategy.
• Create and maintain CI/CD Pipelines to enable efficient deployment of code by automating development and deployment processes.
• Identify solution opportunities that focus on Reuse, maximising the return on development costs by reducing other programme development costs.
• Collaborate with development teams to enable the delivery of high-quality, secure, and scalable applications on the cloud with automated tools and scripts.
• Recommend best practices and ensure the products developed within the organization are robust, secure and scalable.
• Work with the product owner to address user needs.
• Develop secure and high-quality production code, perform code reviews and able to debug issues.
• Participate in agile threat modelling and vulnerability management.
• Ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements for MOD and high Design assurance softwares.
• Develop solutions for where data can bring value to our offers and our customer.
• Support the Customer Enterprise/Solution Data Architects in coordinating the data landscaping and cataloguing for Thales UK.
• Support the Customer Enterprise and Solution Data Architects in the creation and influence of UK MoD standards for Data Management and solutions that support data management and integration.
• Work to implement 3rd party data integrations to support internal and external use cases.
• Working collaboratively with the various squads and technical roles to identify common issues and opportunities to improve operational and strategic delivery.
• Accountable for the creation of the technology software solution deliverables.
• Horizon scan for major disruptive technology trends (trend spotting) that affect business. Provide practical advice and best practices to overcome these challenges and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.

Qualifications

In excess of 5 years' experience in the defence Industry or Aviation/Medical in related software/DevOps/DevSecOps roles.

Required Skills

• Logical Analysis of technical solutions and problem solving.
• Experience working on Linux or Windows based infrastructure.
• Excellent understanding of modern programming languages such as Ruby, Python, Perl, and Java.
• Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL, Mongo.
• Excellent troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services.
• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles.
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, predictive analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
• General IT Knowledge (applications, storage, networks, IT infrastructure, Infrastructure, service level agreements, Asset management etc).
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
• Technical IT (security, transaction processing, user interface, data management, Operating Systems Services).
• Ability to design innovative solutions whilst adhering to strong security constraints.
• Experience of the latest technology trends and their application within Data - including but not limited to AI, machine learning containerisation, IOT, big data and cloud.

Preferred Skills

• Governance of architecture or detailed designs throughout the project lifecycle.
• Previously undertaken solution development and implementation of a large scale Data projects.

Pay range and compensation package

Not specified.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Thales is committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.