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Senior Software Engineer
Chiltern Park Recruitment Ltd · United Kingdom · back to the listing
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Engineering Manager
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What this role officially is
software manager — ESCO, the EU occupation classification
Software managers oversee the acquisition and development of software systems in order to provide support to all organisational units. They also monitor the results and quality of the different software solutions and projects implemented in the organisation.
Also known as: applications manager, software managers, ICT applications manager, software applications manager, soft manager
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What the listing never says
- 28 bullet points. Long requirement lists deter qualified candidates, who read them as hard gates. Scope clarity
- No section describes what the person would actually do. Scope clarity
- No location or timezone policy stated, so a candidate cannot tell where they may work from. Scope clarity
The listing, marked up
An exciting new role with a multinational underwater engineering provider, serving the commercial and defence markets to provide software engineering design solutions and through life engineering support to the commercial & defence product ranges working as the technical lead for the software engineering team. Work can vary from creating software for new product design to meet client or internal specifications through to supporting an existing clients request to upgrade or change software in the field.
BENEFITS: Salary 60-75K!!!! 25 days holiday, flexible working, Private Medical Insurance, Bonus, excellent training and career progression.
In addition to the technical requirements above the Senior Engineer role also requires a level of management and leadership in order to ensure the team is delivering to meet departmental and company expectations.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
• Provide software engineering design input to new products.
• Provide software engineering support to the existing product range.
• Assess technical queries and provide software engineering solutions to a wide ranging products portfolio.
• Liaise with internal departments such as sales, procurement and production to ensure the best technical solution is provided in all instances.
• Creation of software engineering documentation such as specifications, proposals, test plans, reports and manuals.
• Ensuring software engineering solutions are provided on time and on budget.
• Adherence to global engineering end to end process and sub processes.
• Site visits to other offices and client assets as and when required.
• Maintenance and development of company standards and processes for software version control
• Management of software team on performance, development, allocation/delegation of work, compliance to internal and external standards & regulations.
KEY BEHAVIOURS
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Ability to work as part of a team but also in isolation when required.
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Methodical and thorough whilst generating and checking documentation.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
• Proven experience in an industrial software and firmware design environment
• Extensive experience writing embedded software (STM32 IDE or similar)
• Good experience with high level development languages preferably C#, C++ and C, Python
• Good experience writing Windows programs (VisualStudio, Windows IoT or similar)
• Software development knowledge including version control using Azure DevOps (or similar) and development techniques (Agile, Waterfall or similar)
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) tools such as Pipelines, Jenkins (or similar)
Experience Required
• Minimum of 6 years in a software engineering role
Experience of additional benefit
• Experience with network protocol UDP
• Experience with serial comms protocols over RS485/232, CAN
• Experience with SQL server/client data base applications
• Experience with user interface MVC framework
• Embedded software in safety critical applications
Qualifications
• Software / Computer Science / Electrical/electronic engineering degree or equivalent industry experience
If you are interested and have the required experience in a Software Engineering role please apply now1 and we will be happy to recommend you to our client!
Originally posted on Himalayas
BENEFITS: Salary 60-75K!!!! 25 days holiday, flexible working, Private Medical Insurance, Bonus, excellent training and career progression.
In addition to the technical requirements above the Senior Engineer role also requires a level of management and leadership in order to ensure the team is delivering to meet departmental and company expectations.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
• Provide software engineering design input to new products.
• Provide software engineering support to the existing product range.
• Assess technical queries and provide software engineering solutions to a wide ranging products portfolio.
• Liaise with internal departments such as sales, procurement and production to ensure the best technical solution is provided in all instances.
• Creation of software engineering documentation such as specifications, proposals, test plans, reports and manuals.
• Ensuring software engineering solutions are provided on time and on budget.
• Adherence to global engineering end to end process and sub processes.
• Site visits to other offices and client assets as and when required.
• Maintenance and development of company standards and processes for software version control
• Management of software team on performance, development, allocation/delegation of work, compliance to internal and external standards & regulations.
KEY BEHAVIOURS
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Ability to work as part of a team but also in isolation when required.
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Methodical and thorough whilst generating and checking documentation.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
• Proven experience in an industrial software and firmware design environment
• Extensive experience writing embedded software (STM32 IDE or similar)
• Good experience with high level development languages preferably C#, C++ and C, Python
• Good experience writing Windows programs (VisualStudio, Windows IoT or similar)
• Software development knowledge including version control using Azure DevOps (or similar) and development techniques (Agile, Waterfall or similar)
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) tools such as Pipelines, Jenkins (or similar)
Experience Required
• Minimum of 6 years in a software engineering role
Experience of additional benefit
• Experience with network protocol UDP
• Experience with serial comms protocols over RS485/232, CAN
• Experience with SQL server/client data base applications
• Experience with user interface MVC framework
• Embedded software in safety critical applications
Qualifications
• Software / Computer Science / Electrical/electronic engineering degree or equivalent industry experience
If you are interested and have the required experience in a Software Engineering role please apply now1 and we will be happy to recommend you to our client!
Originally posted on Himalayas