Requisition ID: 788
Category: Information Technology
Location: Manchester - MAN, United Kingdom
Citizenship Required: United Kingdom Citizenship
Clearance Type: Developed Vetting (DV)
Telecommute: Yes- May Consider Occasional/Part-Time Teleworking for this position
Travel Required: No
Positions Available: 3

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work - and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Are you a Software Engineer who wants to join a leading cyber team within an evolving and dynamic organisation? Due to the success of a number of strategic programmes, we are growing our Software Development team with creative and ambitious Software Engineers. With a primary focus on Java, your experience will cover different technologies within an agile environment

For us, innovation is key and we have immediate opportunities for talented software engineers to join our team to help us develop and maintain a suite of applications.. We are in a phase of rapid growth and there are opportunities to develop your career with us to meet your aspirations. You will be helping us to solve our customer's problems within an agile team. You will have opportunities throughout the Software Lifecycle from requirements capture through to R&D (Research & Development), implementation, automation and test in a wide range of technologies.As a Senior Software Engineer you will have had responsibility for packages of work and should be used to working with customers. You will be able to deploy applications in a controlled, repeatable way and be developing technical specialisms in frameworks and/or toolsets. Experience of mentoring or team leading would be advantageous.Essential criteria:
Experience in design, development, test and integration of quality software
Experience in Java and the use of object oriented design
Keen to learn a broad range of technologies on the Java stack
Desirable criteria:
Agile/Scrum methodologies using tools such as Confluence and Jira
DevOps approaches and associated tools such as Ansible, Docker and Jenkins
Messaging and Routing Technologies such as NiFi and Kafka Cloud-based architectures
Linux operating systems (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server/CentOS)
Different programming languages, such as: Java, C, C++ and Python Working with open source products

Northrop Grumman is committed to equality and diversity in our workplace. Northrop Grumman provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to an individual's protected status, including race/ethnic origin, color, nationality, national origin, ancestry, sex/gender, gender identity/expression, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, religion or belief, creed, age, disability, genetic information, or any other protected status or characteristic.