Senior Software Engineer

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Senior Software Engineer

Ordnance Survey has an opportunity available for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team based in Southampton. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of circa £45,000 per annum plus excellent benefits - this is a fantastic opportunity to develop a rewarding career.  

About us:

Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, and a world-leading geospatial data and technology organisation. As a reliable partner to government, business and citizens across Britain and the world, OS helps its customers in virtually all sectors improve quality of life. OS expertise and data supports efficient public services and infrastructure, new technologies in transport and communications, national security and emergency services and exploring the great outdoors. By being at the forefront of geospatial capability for more than 225 years, we’ve built a reputation as the world’s most inspiring and trusted geospatial partner.

We offer fantastic benefits to our Senior Software Engineer:

- Salary - circa £45,000

- Competitive pension

- 37 hour working week with flexible working hours

- 25 days annual leave - (30 days after five years) bank holidays and an extra 3 over Christmas

- Training & Development

- Paid volunteer day

- Bike to Work scheme (with secure bike storage and excellent changing facilities)

- Free onsite parking

- Subsidised on-site staff restaurant

- On-site nursery

- Very generous staff benefits including over 500 discounts from national stores

- Wide variety of sports and social clubs

- Support for your health and wellbeing from eye care vouchers to health checks

About the role:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join Ordnance Survey’s Engineering department, which develops and maintains the IT systems and infrastructure that drive our world-leading geospatial and business applications.

Working in an agile team, this exciting role will require you to understand business requirements and develop the appropriate solution that meets business needs.  Your knowledge will encompass a wide variety of techniques and technologies, allowing you to build scalable, performant systems that are easy to maintain and support. Experience around Deployment, Debugging, Testing, Scaling and Monitoring modern cloud-based systems is desired.

You will have the opportunity to work with stakeholders, Project Managers and Delivery Managers to help shape the project delivery and the team. You will look to continuously improve the engineering capability in all aspects of the engineering lifecycle through coaching and mentoring. We will encourage you to identify opportunities to maximise development benefit within your team, and there will also be the opportunity to provide 3rd Line level support for existing Live systems. Therefore, the abilities to learn quickly and think creatively are essential.

Skills and experience required to be our Senior Software Engineer:

You will need to demonstrate your track record against the following essential criteria:

- Expert knowledge and skills in software engineering and industry best practice, such as TDD and SOLID

- Demonstrable skills in Microsoft Azure and coding using C#, Java, Python, or a similar language

- Demonstrable ability to coach and mentor an engineering team

- Very good track record in influencing key business & technical stakeholders

- Proven track record in implementing new engineering techniques within a development team

Why not click ‘apply’ today? Don’t miss out on this opportunity to join the world’s leading map making and big data organisation as our Senior Software Engineer.

Closing date: Friday 28th September 2018