Lead Software Engineer

Location:

Winnersh, Wokingham Position Role Type:
Hybrid Lead Software Engineer Permanent Winnersh

• £:
  Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution) 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements. Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early! Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role. Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year. Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence. As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace.

We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers. With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development. Through advanced technology and our people’s expertise, our Training Transformation Services is modernising what’s possible in the training and preparation of our armed forces.

With a real blended approach to learning and using the latest innovative systems and technology, we ensure our service men and women really are prepared for any situation.

This role is based within the Training Transformation business unit, who provide training systems and simulators to the whole of the UK armed forces. The initial project will be within the Submarine Training simulation & emulation team. The software engineer is responsible for the design, delivery and integration of innovative and high-quality software products within an Agile software delivery team. This is an opportunity to innovate and try new things;

to fearlessly challenge and question; to learn and progress in an inclusive and supportive culture; to be rewarded for the vital contribution you make. This project requires the managed integration and delivery of a complex device, consisting of hardware, software and courseware components, interacting with multiple stakeholders from suppliers (who may be within Raytheon UK, or external) to the customer and end-users within UK MOD and is key to the success of the integration activity.

You will achieve this through working as a multi-disciplined team to deliver innovative and high value software products, to achieve the desired business synergies and value realisation. Personnel assigned to this role possess the basic knowledge, skills and experience but the organization desires the following additional knowledge, skills or experience:
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