Software Engineer – Digital Defence Services

Job Description

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Gloucester || UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London 

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Job Title: Software Engineer
Requisition ID:   120998

Location: Customer Site with overseas travel (Gloucester/ London nearest BAE offices)  – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Grade: GG10 – GG11
Referral Bonus: £5,000

About the role
We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join our Digital Defence Services team following continuous growth and success. Within Digital Defence Services, we are a critical partner to the UK Ministry of Defence in their adoption of secure digital solutions that enable multi-domain integration and data exploitation, which provides the advantage to those who serve and protect us.  

Holding a current MoD/Partner DV is essential for this role.

As a Software Engineer you will:
•    Analyse requirements and design
•    Implement and unit test code and supporting artefacts
•    Use appropriate software development tools, e.g. source control, continuous integration
•    Follow industry standard disciplines and best practices

Positioned within a thriving Digital Defence Services Business Unit and part of a wider vibrant Security Consulting Community from across other Sectors, you will be supported in the role and have opportunity learn and develop, with clear pathways defined for your career progression in the organisation.

Our people are what differentiates us, they are resourceful, innovative and dedicated. We have a mix of generalists and specialists and recognise that this diversity contributes to our success. We recognise the benefits of forming teams from a mix of disciplines, which allows us to come up with cutting edge, high quality solutions. Our breadth of work across the Public Sector provides diverse opportunities for our people to develop their careers in new areas of expertise and with new clients.

About you
You can bring to the role:

• Experience of coding in one or more relevant programming languages, e.g. Java, C#, Javascript, Python, C++
• Familiarity with the packages used by BAE Systems, such as ElasticSearch, NiFI, Python, MS SQL Server; (Essential)
• Comfortable developing on both Linux and Windows; (Essential)
• Experience with React, Angular, Neoj4, Active Directory, Kerberos, Keycloak; (Preferred)
• Experience with the Atlassian suite of tolls (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) for development, documentation, and Agile delivery (Preferred)

The following are essential for the role, due to the nature of our business:

• Hold an MoD/Partner DV (Preferred) or be willing and able to gain an MoD/Partner DV
• Be a UK National
• Work on-site (London or West Country) in one of the customer's sites (4 days per week, Essential, 5 days per week, Preferred)
• Be willing to travel overseas.

How we will support you
Work-life balance is important – you can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working.
You’ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups. These groups cover everything from gender diversity to mental health and wellbeing.

Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.
We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.”

This vacancy is eligible for the UK Employee Referral Scheme. Amount: £5000
 

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence 

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential. 

Division overview: Capabilities

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Capabilities is the engine that keeps the business moving forward. It is the largest area of Digital Intelligence, containing our Engineering, Consulting and Project Management teams that design and implement the defence solutions and digital transformation projects that make us a globally recognised brand in both the public and private sector.

As a member of the Capabilities team, you will be creating and managing the solutions that earn us our place in an ever changing digital world. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.