Job Title: Software Solutions Engineer
Location: Andover, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £90,000 dependant on experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56228
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Software Solutions Engineer at our Andover site.
The role
As a Software Solutions Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will find innovative and effective ways to deliver quality outputs and solutions to meet complex business needs and support changes in business processes.
Day to day, you’ll ensure data can be utilised to provide actionable insights for operational needs and evidence-based decision support. You will be responsible for ensuring requirements captured by the Deployment Strategist are applied through workflows, alerts and applications to help our business and customers make better use of their data to improve decision making.
- Build custom applications, work with large scale datasets both MOD owned, and Babcock owned data, build automation into processes, maintain, and support existing workflows
- During the project lifecycles you will need to work with the wider insights team to understand current and proposed workflows and processes
- Own end to end execution of these solutions, working with existing data engineering teams to ensure pipelines are built to purpose
This role is full time working 37-hours per week and will be based at our Andover site with hybrid working from home arrangements.
Essential experience of the Software Solutions Engineer:
- Strong engineering background preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science
- Proficiency with one or more programming languages or data engineering frameworks, such as Python, SQL, Spark, Java, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar
- Effective organisation and time management skills - work independently and manage workload
- Self-motivated, enthusiastic, ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines, through prioritising work and managing deadlines
Qualifications for the Software Solutions Engineer:
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.
Our Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 04/03/24
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