Senior Software Engineer

Location:

Reading, United Kingdom

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short‑range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle‑space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us.

At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well‑being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you;

whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

• You graduated with a Master of Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or any other related field
• You enjoy working within a Dev Ops/Agile/Scrum team and being plunged into a challenging environment requiring reactivity and resourcefulness
• You want to evolve in a "real time" environment with interactions between "low level" technical aspects, close to the hardware, and ensure that the “high level” functionality expected by the solution is maintained
• You are willing to work on small or big devices such as Radar, embedded calculator equipment, Smart cards and Wearables, dedicated for the Telecommunications and IOT businesses, mobile...

• You know how to develop on embedded OS Software such as Linux, VxWorks, FastOS Linux
• You are experienced in embedded software development such as [C or C++ and VB., NET., ADA, Assembly programming]
• You are familiar with the use of tools and equipment involved in programming performance (including measuring instruments)
• You master the development/adaptation of simulation tools and means necessary to carry out integration/testing activities on platform
• You are experienced in embedded system and application design and configuration (both wayside and onboard) and relevant communication protocols and interfaces such as [DDS, ARINC...]
• You have substantial knowledge of:
• Building a strategy based on your understanding of the business issues involving data processes
• Mathematics and statistics
• Data technologies
• You are able to take into account customer needs
• You have working experience/knowledge with cloud provider like AWS or GCP
• You have experience with automated deployment and associated technologies (Helm/Yaml/Ansible/Docker)
• You are familiar with tools such as JIRA and Confluence

• Design, implement and test features with scalability, performance, deployment or operation and end‑user experience in mind
• Apply coding/implementation best practices to produce elegant, high quality and reusable code
• Implement and follow security best practices for web applications
• Collaborate with other developers to share knowledge and improve overall product/solution
• Keep up‑to‑date with latest technologies evolution and frameworks
• Interact with UX team to implement and verify user experience concepts
• Follow the agile methodology used for the project. This includes creation of user stories and corresponding tasks to help create a robust system based on user‑centric design
• Regularly archive source code into the source code repository for projects
• Participate in issue investigation and deployment of applications and new releases in testing/integration environment as needed

Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your competencies in different areas:

• Room and attention to…