Job Title: Principal Software Systems Engineer
Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF54232
At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Principal Software Systems Engineer at our Ashchurch site.
The role
As a Principal Software Systems Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary.
Day to day, you'll provide expert software engineering consultancy and leadership to critical engineering programs, as well as:
- Ensuring that an assured engineering lifecycle is applied, including requirements specification, design, production, test, integration, and assurance.
- Producing a documented design specification and ensuring that all other lifecycle documents are produced to a high standard.
- Developing a delivery strategy, roadmaps and work breakdown structures ensuring work is delivered to requisite time, cost, and quality.
- Representing Babcock at stakeholder meetings, Governance forums, Design Reviews and Readiness Assessment activities.
- Building, leading, and managing teams of engineers
This role is full time, 37-hours per week and will be based on site at Ashchurch with hybrid working from home arrangements.
Essential experience of the Principal Software Systems Engineer:
- In-depth knowledge and evidence of the application of Systems and Software Engineering processes on large and complex projects
- Owning and delivering high level design documentation, roadmaps and statements of work for complex software systems (e.g., in the telecommunication industry)
- Through-life design, integration and delivery of complex software systems ideally including network management and orchestration, OSS / BSS, ITIL
- Proactive in your approach, you'll have excellent leadership skills combined with the ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment with new and exciting challenges each day.
Qualifications for the Principal Software Systems Engineer:
- University degree or equivalent in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or related discipline
The successful candidate must be able to achieve BPSS/SC security clearance for this role.
Our Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be ion and selection stages, please let us know. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 25/12/2023
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