Software Engineer (Contractor)

Company Description

General Dynamics Mission Systems engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services that enable customers to successfully execute missions across all domains of operation. With a global team of more than 13,000 top professionals, we partner with the best in industry to expand the bounds of innovation in the defence and scientific arenas. In the UK, we are leading the way in avionics and communication systems. Given the nature of our work and who we are, we value trust, honesty, alignment and transparency.

Job Description

Work Tasks include:

• Analysing requirements designing, implementing and testing software subsystem components.
• Analysing and debug software integration issues on target hardware and software environments.
• Validating software designs against requirements and assumptions.
• Working proactively with System Engineering and specialist areas (security, safety, human factors, support and training) to ensure software design and implementation meet its requirements.
• Ad-hoc experimentation adapting software and configurations to support R&D activities.
• Responsible for capturing software design and modelling, OO MBSE.
• Identifying and documenting specification and interface changes.
• Undertaking and supporting product and integration test as well as acceptance activities on site when required.

Qualifications

• Strong background in Software design, code, test and version control using current methodologies, processes and tools
• Recent significant experience developing C# (including WPF and .Net) software applications or Windows components within a software team, with Microsoft Visual Studio. Ideally experience of C++, PowerShell, Azure DevOps..
• Strong Microsoft Windows Platform development experience including a good understanding of Windows Operating System architecture (including 64-bit, Windows 11), development frameworks, services, and security features.
• Capable of analysing and debugging software integration issues on target hardware and software environments
• Test Driven Development & Automation.
• Preparing documentation for design reviews, completing and closing actions.
• Peer reviewing source code, software designs and working to a coding standard.
• Experience of full software development life-cycle
• Experience of communication networks

Additional Information

General Dynamics Mission Systems utilises QDOS IR35 Status Review. The requirements of this contract have been evaluated as Outside IR35 Prior to the engagement start you will need to complete a status questionnaire in order to receive the finalised status determination.

All successful/appointed applicants must be able to obtain a level of UK Security clearance that is appropriate for the role and undertake suitable Right to work checks.