Lead Software Engineer

Job description Important : Must have sole British Nationality (due to UK eyes-only projects), and have, or be capable of obtaining, UK security clearance (SC ) Benefit s: Full company benefits, flexible working and some remote working potential s. Join a Global communications company, where the innovations have helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments, and militaries around the world communicate - even in the hardest-to-reach plac es The company are growing rapidly and looking for passionate, innovative professionals to join the team. You'll work in a collaborative and inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives and continuous learn ing. Technology Innovators Awards Gold Honoree | 2021Glassdoor's 2022 Best Places to Work for U.S. Large Employers List This company is growing their team with a Lead Software Engineer to lead our software engineers and work the development of Cyber and Information Assurance pro jects. The Software Lead Engineer must be an experienced software engineer who can operate as a key player in the design, development and test of software systems, as well as lead a team of software developers. Approximately 20% of the role will be related to line management duties. Responsib ilities:Analysing software requirements, high level architecture design, low level detailed design, implementation, test and inte gration.Generation of estimates and assisting with the planning process.Line management of a team of engineers, including career development and me ntoring.Lead the team to deliver, assisting with design issues and supervising progressEnsuring software developed within the team is of high quality and follows the defined development pr ocesses.Update and refinement of software development methodologies an d tools. Experienc e needed:Ideally qualified to degree-level or equivalent experience in a Physics or Engineering based subject, such as; Electronics, Hardware, Computer Science, Software or Systems Enginee ring etc.Full life-cycle software development e xperienceRecent experience using C, or C++ in embedded applications, experience targeting PC environments an a dvantage.A sound understanding of operating system concepts such as multi-threading, process scheduling, inter-process communication, memory managemen t and I/OScripting expertise with bash, python o r similarProven experience with Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and programmi ng skillsConfiguration management and version control e. g. GitHubPrevious experience of leading within a software development program, including the mentoring or leading of other software de velopers. Desirable:Experience in the Defence / Aerospace or safety regulated environment would be ad vantageousDesign for Security.An underst anding of:Digital security t echnology.Continuous integration, unit test and static analysis.x86 architecture, hardware programming and device driv er models.Implementation of Graphical User I nterf aces.NVMe.Experience of developing for microcontrollers, ideal ly RISC-V.Experience of developing encryption or security products.Networking technologies, network security and network pr ogramming.Requirements analysis, capture and management using IBM Ratio nal DOORS.Proven C++ programming experience (including the Standard Template Library) on Linux and/or Windows platforms.RUST knowledge.Familiarity with cross compilation toolchains and on target debugging.