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As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.\nAs a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.\nWith circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.\nThrough advanced technology and our people’s expertise, our Training Transformation Services is modernising what’s possible in the training and preparation of our armed forces. With a real blended approach to learning and using the latest innovative systems and technology, we ensure our service men and women really are prepared for any situation.\nRole & Responsibilities\nThis role is based within the Training Transformation business unit, who provide training systems and simulators to the whole of the UK armed forces. The initial project will be within the Submarine Training simulation & emulation team. The software engineer is responsible for the design, delivery and integration of innovative and high-quality software products within an Agile software delivery team.\nThis is an opportunity to innovate and try new things; to fearlessly challenge and question; to learn and progress in an inclusive and supportive culture; to be rewarded for the vital contribution you make.\nThis project requires the managed integration and delivery of a complex device, consisting of hardware, software and courseware components, interacting with multiple stakeholders from suppliers (who may be within Raytheon UK, or external) to the customer and end-users within UK MOD and is key to the success of the integration activity.\nYou will achieve this through working as a multi-disciplined team to deliver innovative and high value software products, to achieve the desired business synergies and value realisation.\nPersonnel assigned to this role possess the basic knowledge, skills and experience but the organization desires the following additional knowledge, skills or experience:\nResponsibilities\nDesign, build and run code using industry best practice. You will help in defining the evolvement of best practice and in the supporting of estimation activities.\nContribute to the completion of features within the product roadmap. Your decisions will be of significant value and will contribute to the overall success of the programme\nPerform first line peer reviews and provide direction and guidance around the review\nContribute to the continuous improvement of practice and code within the team\nProvide technical direction within the team\nDesign and develop new product functionality\nContribute and produce test artefacts including unit tests and integration tests that will form part of the continuous delivery mechanism\n\nRequired experience\nStrong experience of working and delivering in high level languages such as C#, Java or C++.\nExperience of using development lifecycle tools such as GitLab or the Atlassian suite.\nExperience working on classified security classifications and delivery of solutions to gov/defence customers\nAbility to quickly form effective working relationships with all stakeholders required.\nConfiguration management processes and systems.\nDesirable experience\nExperience of Python scripting\nKnowledge of GUI toolkits such as React, WPF etc\nKnowledge of Secure by Design (SbD) principles.\nExperience building enterprise level applications or services\nExperience of working in a simulation and/or training environment\nExperience using TDD, BDD and working understanding of SOLID, DevOps or DevSecOps principles\nExperience of working and delivering within an Agile software delivery team\nRTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.\nRTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. 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