Principal Software Engineer V06450

• Provide technical expertise across the software team for the requirements, design, implementation, testing and verification of the software subsystems on Naval radar

Key Tasks

• Derive and maintain a set of software requirements from a baseline set of systems requirements
• Produce and maintain a software design to meet a set of software requirements
• Use a software design to produce a deliverable software solution
• Test a software solution to prove that is meets its design aims and requirements

• Have considerable ability of using at least one high level programming language - Knowledge of Ada95 is desirable
• Have considerable ability of using a high-level design methodology (e.g. UML) - Knowledge of UML is essential
• Have knowledge of all aspects of a software lifecycle and good knowledge of software lifecycle models (e.g. Waterfall, Agile)
• Have good knowledge of appropriate software standards (e.g. ISO/IEC/IEE 12207)
• Have a comprehensive understanding of configuration management and experience of a configuration management tool
• An understanding of model-based techniques is desirable