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Job Title: Lead Software Engineer
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65558
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 Lead Software Engineer at our Hawthorn, Corsham site.
Job Title: Lead Software Engineer
Location: Hawthorn, Corsham – Majority of the role can be remote.
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65558
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 Lead Software Engineer at our Hawthorn, Corsham site.
The role
As a Lead Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for overseeing the entire software development lifecycle and is responsible for design, planning, execution and assuring suitability of the SkyNet 6 New Management System (NMS), in accordance with the project delivery lifecycle.
Working closely alongside the Lead Systems Engineer, Lead Test Engineer, Quality Assurance Team and the Project Manager, the suitable Lead Software Engineer will deliver software systems to tight timescales across multiple phases of the project.
Day-to-day, you’ll be working in an Agile software team to create and review software delivery plans, User Stories, Business Requirements or System Requirements. Responsibilities include:
* Coordinating tasks among team members.
* Documenting and defining guidelines (e.g. Software Delivery Plan) for delivering the system.
* Designing the product, updates and improvements.
* Contributing to the team activities, including hands-on development.
* Analysing data and tracking metrics to ensure that the solution is performing well.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Hawthorn, Corsham. Majority of the role can be remote.
Essential Experience Of The Lead Software Engineer
* You must have hands-on experience with C#.
* You must have experience leading a team of any size.
Qualifications For The Lead Software 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/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What We Offer
* Generous holiday allowance
* Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
* Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
* 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually
* ‘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
* Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has 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.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. 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.
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Closing Date: 29/7/2025
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries
Defense and Space Manufacturing
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