Job Description

Location: Belfast, United Kingdom

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that\xe2\x80\x99s why we offer you the flexibility to do what\xe2\x80\x99s important to you; whether that\xe2\x80\x99s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Senior Software Engineer \xe2\x80\x93 Embedded

Location \xe2\x80\x93 Belfast

Thales is a technology company that is part of the of the global Thales organisation. Thales worldwide has 88000 employees in 50 countries.

Thales teams deliver cutting-edge solutions to armed forces all over the world. We are Europe\xe2\x80\x99s number one supplier of defence electronics and a leading provider of integrated air defence systems. But our people don\xe2\x80\x99t just work with incredibly advanced technology. The armoured vehicles we build can resist the full force of improvised explosive devices, while our avionics solutions control some of the world\xe2\x80\x99s most iconic military aircraft. Together, our people make the world safer.

Thales (Belfast) have an opportunity for a Graduate software engineer to work on cutting edge technology delivering integrated air defence solutions and military management information systems. The successful candidate will work within an integrated project team and will develop their skills through being involved in all aspects of the software development lifecycle.

The Role

As a Software Embedded Software Engineering within Thales, you will:

• Design, implement and test features with scalability, performance, deployment or operation and end-user experience in mind
• Apply coding/implementation best practices to produce elegant, high quality and reusable code
• Implement and follow security best practices for web applications
• Collaborate with other developers to share knowledge and improve overall product/solution
• Keep up-to-date with latest technologies evolution and frameworks
• Interact with UX team to implement and verify user experience concepts
• Follow the agile methodology used for the project. This includes creation of user stories and corresponding tasks to help create a robust system based on user-centric design
• Regularly archive source code into the source code repository for projects
• Participate in issue investigation and deployment of applications and new releases in testing/integration environment as needed

Your Skills and Experience

• You graduated with a Master of Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or any other related field
• You enjoy working within a DevOps/Agile/Scrum team and being plunged into a challenging environment requiring reactivity and resourcefulness
• You want to evolve in a "real time" environment with interactions between "low level" technical aspects, close to the hardware, and ensure that the \xe2\x80\x9chigh level\xe2\x80\x9d functionality expected by the solution is maintained
• You are willing to work on small or big devices such as Radar, embedded calculator equipment, Smartcards and Wearables, dedicated for the Telecommunications and IOT businesses, mobile...
• You know how to develop on embedded OS Software such as Linux, VxWorks, FastOS Linux
• You are experienced in embedded software development such as [C or C++ and VB., NET., ADA, Assembly programming]
• You are familiar with the use of tools and equipment involved in programming performance (including measuring instruments)
• You master the development/adaptation of simulation tools and means necessary to carry out integration/testing activities on platform
• You are experienced in embedded system and application design and configuration (both wayside and onboard) and relevant communication protocols and interfaces such as [DDS, ARINC...]

You have substantial knowledge of:

• Building a strategy based on your understanding of the business issues involving data processes
• Mathematics and statistics
• Data technologies
• You are able to take into account customer needs
• You have working experience/knowledge with cloud provider like AWS or GCP
• You have experience with automated deployment and associated technologies (Helm/Yaml/Ansible/Docker)
• You are familiar with tools such as JIRA and Confluence

What We Can Offer

We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you\xe2\x80\x99ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

Your health and well-being matters to us and that\xe2\x80\x99s why we offer you the flexibility to do what\xe2\x80\x99s important to you; whether that\xe2\x80\x99s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held; if not currently held it is expected that the post holder will undergo SC Clearance, please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

In line with Thales\' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact for mid to senior roles, or the for graduate and apprentice roles.

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