Job Description

Senior Software Engineer
Location: Farnborough, with flexibility to work from home dependent on business demands
The Role:
We are in search of a Senior Software Engineer to support a Government Critical National Infrastructure project. As a Senior Software Engineer you will lead multiple software development team(s) to deliver solutions with architectures that provide capability improvements, reduced costs and flexibility to adapt quickly to customer needs. This position is a full time, permanent role and applicants must have SC clearance or be willing to undergo the clearance process.
What will I be doing?

• Lead multiple software development team(s) to deliver solutions with architectures that provide capability improvements, reduced costs and flexibility to adapt quickly to customer needs. Understand high-level features and desired outcomes (both now and future). Assist Team building, understanding and analyzing desired outcomes.
• Responsible for the application-level outcomes, prioritisation of those outcomes and maintaining a roadmap of capability improvements (in conjunction with the Senior Leadership Team) related to the software's architecture and the end-to-end design.
• Formulate software designs that create solutions meeting various desired outcomes (both now and future) while balancing the goals and constraints on the solutions (i.e. customer environment, cybersecurity, continuous integration/continuous delivery, etc.).
• Clearly communicate the software architecture to software teams with varying levels of technical understanding.
• Verify implementation to validate that the delivered software is consistent with the agreed architecture and will meet desired outcomes.
• Manage change to the software architecture and control the software complexity. Make software architecture and solutions as flexible as possible. Defend against, when appropriate, suggested changes to the software architecture that introduce undue complexity or future supportability issues. Assist with trade off analyses of increased complexity.
• Ensure the design goals - Performance, Modularity, Reliability, Maintainability, Reusability and Accessibility - are met
• Design, test, and evaluate technologies and vendor solutions for inclusion into existing architecture to solve technical or customer problems
• Lead design reviews & provide feedback
• Ensure backlog includes any quality issues and technical debt relating to architecture
• Clarify quality software requirements
• Identify software risks early in the development cycle
• Provide documented basis for architectural decisions

What does Leidos need from me?

• Degree in a technical discipline in addition to extensive recent experience in software development processes designing, developing and implementing enterprise scale technology.
• Proven experience in leading teams in developing architectures.
• Experience designing enterprise architecture with modern, enabling technologies and processes e.g. cloud computing, CI/CD, virtualization, agile design and development, REST services, standards-based authentication and authorization protocols.
• Experience collaborating with cybersecurity, product owners, users and developers to design and communicate an innovative and secure architecture that enables continuous delivery of software.
• Experience with decomposing monolithic software into manageable pieces, especially in related software domains.
• Experience designing shared services like caching, eventing, and messaging in distributed environment.

Key Skills:

• Extensive Java or C experience including:

• Best practice coding
• Unit testing
• Source control management.
• Possess the knowledge and experience to perform complex tasks.
• Ability to work independently and/or under supervision.
• Effective communication

It would be beneficial if you had:

• C/C++ experience
• Perl, Python, and/or bash Scripting experience
• Database skills: Oracle or Postgres
• Experience of Microsoft tools that support the design of solutions, e.g. Visio

Clearance Requirements:
You will be required to gain UK SC (Security Clearance) for this role.
To be eligible for this role you must have UK Citizenship and been a resident in the UK for minimum 5 years.
What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

• Flexi-Time Working

Commitment to Diversity:
We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.
Who We Are:
- we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.
Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.
What Makes Us Different:
Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.
Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.
People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.
At Leidos, we don't want someone who "fits the mold"--we want someone who melts it down and builds something better. This is a role for the restless, the over-caffeinated, the ones who ask, "what's next?" before the dust settles on "what's now."
If you're already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2... good. You'll fit right in.
Original Posting:
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range: 60,100.00-77,000.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Skills Required