Ordnance Survey Hiring for Senior Software Engineer Job at Southampton, England Full Time

Our growing Technology and Design team plays a key role in ensuring OS is at the cutting edge of geospatial capability and is looking for people to join them. Its mission is to work across the business to provide customer centric design and technology services.

Join us and you’ll have an opportunity to make an impact. To empower projects that deliver real-world benefits across Britain and internationally. To hear our customers say they couldn’t have done it without us. And to be central to OS’s vision: to be recognised as world leaders in geospatial services; creating location insight for positive impact.

About the role

The Common Engineering domain within our Technology and Design department is an Azure based, agile, engineer-led workstream. Be part of a team united under common goals optimising our work for the benefit of the department and the organisation. To support our further growth, we are looking for an enthusiastic colleague to come and work on some of our new exciting platforms to support the development teams.

This is a varied role where you will be working towards the following:

• Providing team leadership to Engineers and/or Associate Engineers (including a current requirement for Line Management)
• Taking ownership for the delivery of Azure software infrastructure platforms, through creation of Infrastructure as Code
• Continuously improving the engineering capability in all aspects of the engineering lifecycle through coaching, mentoring and technical leadership.
• Collaborating using development practices such as pairing and mobbing.
• Communicating between stakeholders and technical teams will be a primary requirement of the role

What we’re looking for

If you are interested in joining a team that lies at the heart of what OS is about, we are looking for someone that can demonstrate skills and experience in:

• Experience in at least one object orientated programming language, (e.g. C#, PowerShell, or Python)
• Skills in software engineering and industry best practice such as TDD, SOLID principles and Agile working practices
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code
• Understanding of cloud technologies and patterns

We are particularly interested in experience of:

• Leading, mentoring, and coaching others
• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Microsoft Azure and its common technologies
• Azure Machine Learning, DataBricks, or DataFactory
• Awareness of secure development practices.

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Please outline via CV and Covering Letter your skills and experience in the above requirements._

The rewards

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. We’ll give you:

• Salary: £40,749 – £45,543
• Performance related bonus
• A competitive pension scheme
• We embrace flexible working and can consider different working hours dependent on the role and your personal circumstances
• 25 days annual leave – (30 days after five years) bank holidays and an extra 3 over Christmas
• Plus, a suite of excellent additional benefits

Location

OSHQ is based in Southampton, Hampshire but at OS we believe work is something you do, not somewhere you go. We embrace a hybrid working model where we believe the choice is with the individual on when they work from our fantastic offices in Southampton, London or from home. We want to continue to be an inclusive employer and recognise that one size doesn’t necessarily fit all.

Closing date

Sunday 16th January 2022

We believe diversity and inclusion is about working together – in an encouraging and respectful environment to reach our full potential. We believe combining different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives will help us reach our vision and be trusted and admired across the globe for setting the standards and leading the way.

We are looking for passionate people from a range of backgrounds and welcome applications from any race, age, gender, background or religion.

We’re individually talented and collectively powerful, and we give you the space to take your career in whichever direction you want.

Job Type: Full-time