Principal Software Management Engineer

Full Job Description

Job Title: Principal Software Management Engineer
Location: Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56906

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 Principal Software Management Engineer at our Bristol site.

The Role
As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Helping ensure that the software produced by our sub-contracted suppliers is developed and integrated to meet the overall requirements of the system.

Day-to-day, you'll provide software expertise to the programme, working within our multi-discipline team and engaging with technical experts within the customer, supplier and Babcock teams. You will be working on a fast-paced project, there are likely to be frequently changing priorities and you will need to be able to prioritise your work to respond to immerging issues at short notice:

• Leading Working Groups and ensuring that appropriate actions are captured and implemented.
• Ensuring that there is effective communication between all parties.
• Monitoring and auditing the activities undertaken by our suppliers.
• Ensuring that all technical documentation is reviewed and approved prior to delivery.
• Providing software expertise to support the wider multi-discipline team (who provide Security, Safety, Human Factors, ILS, Risk expertise).

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel to North Bristol, on a fortnightly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Essential Experience of the Principal Software Management Engineer

• Successful delivery of software programmes through collaboration with multiple stakeholders.
• Working throughout the s/w delivery lifecycle with a focus on Integration, Test Evaluation and Acceptance.
• Effective stakeholder management of customers, suppliers and wider teams on complex delivery projects.
• Application and assurance of systems and software processes and standards.
• Maritime EW domain experience is desirable but, not essential.

Qualifications for the Principal Software Management 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 a sole UK national who is 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.

What we offer:

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• '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
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
• Autonomy to perform the role.
• 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 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.