Principal Software Engineer V06450

PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER – V06450

Role Description
Provide technical expertise across the software team for the requirements, design, implementation, testing and verification of the software subsystems on Naval radar
Key Tasks
Derive and maintain a set of software requirements from a baseline set of systems requirements
Produce and maintain a software design to meet a set of software requirements
Use a software design to produce a deliverable software solution
Test a software solution to prove that is meets its design aims and requirements
Skills
Have considerable ability of using at least one high level programming language - Knowledge of Ada
95 is desirable
Have considerable ability of using a high-level design methodology (e.g. UML) - Knowledge of UML is essential
Have knowledge of all aspects of a software lifecycle and good knowledge of software lifecycle models (e.g. Waterfall, Agile)
Have good knowledge of appropriate software standards (e.g. ISO/IEC/IEE 12207)
Have a comprehensive understanding of configuration management and experience of a configuration management tool
An understanding of model-based techniques is desirable
Additional
This work is based on the Isle of wight, and requires full-time on-site working,