C# Principal Software Developer - Part Time

Leonardo is recruiting Principal C# engineers with a passion for delivering complex solutions using Web, C#, .NET Core, microservice and containerisation technologies.

You will join an agile team developing desktop and server based tools that support the configuration, deployment and analysis of our wide range of Electronic Warfare products.

Leonardo are undertaking a significant refresh of our legacy products moving towards the latest technologies and considering the future capabilities of technologies such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

In addition to the flexible working patterns offered by Leonardo's custom working initiative, this role is also available on a part time basis.

The Opportunity:

Software Development: You will apply and enrich your software skills across the full software lifecycle with the opportunity to contribute towards the investigation and analysis of leading edge development methodologies and influence the future path of software development within Leonardo.
Innovative: You will be involved with novel product development and emerging technologies, supported by Leonardo's GBP200m annual investment in research and development.
Continuous Learning: We will support your ongoing professional development though training and mentoring. Working alongside subject matter experts with extensive and detailed knowledge of the EW domain, technology, performance and operational capabilities – the learning potential is limitless.
Challenging: You will work on products and services that push the boundaries of innovation and technology and deliver a step change in performance and capability to our customers.
Collaborative: As part in an expansive team of around 7,000 people at six major sites across the UK, you will be working with highly skilled engineers across multiple domains and sites, from electronic warfare experts in Luton to radar engineers in Edinburgh.
Work–life Balance: Our custom working policy provides opportunities to work on–site or remotely to balance both personal and business needs. Key Responsibility Areas

As part of a multi–disciplined team, you will work with technologies including Azure DevOps, microservices, containerisation, enterprise service bus, automated testing techniques, continuous deployments and continuous integration to influence development and deliver leading edge products.

Skills, Qualification & Knowledge Required

You should have a degree level qualification (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline with experience of developing software in industry or a research and development organisation.

Your experience should include knowledge of the product lifecycle, and working at a systems level.

You should be able to demonstrate the capability to support and develop other, more junior, team members.

In addition you will be expected to have some of the following:

Web and/or Microservice development experience with C# and the .NET / .NET Core framework.
Entity Framework Core and SQL Server experience
Web API experience
Unit testing experience
Microsoft Visual Studio experience
Experience with agile / scrum development methodologies
Knowledge of the Microsoft development toolchain.
Knowledge of current industry best practice software development processes, including Agile.
Experience of refactoring software, including techniques to develop and extend legacy code.
Experience of designing, building, testing and maintaining modern software applications.
Microservice development experience
Web front–end development in HTML, CSS, Javascript and Blazor
Docker experience
Kubernetes experience