Key Purpose

This role is a contract role for 6 months initially and will be classed as "inside IR35" for tax purposes.

As a member of the Ground Software Products Team you will be developing ground-based satellite mission software in areas such as Mission Planning, Mission Control, Image/data Processing, Spacecraft Simulators

Engineers at SSTL have involvement on a mission right from concept through to launch, commissioning and operational life; a true cradle to grave experience, and will give you the chance to see your work in Space in a rapid timescale! This key role will often sit within the core team of a satellite mission interacting with other technical leads across multiple disciplines to generate the technical solutions for innovative projects.

Key Tasks

As a successful candidate you’ll work alongside the System Engineer and other team members in order to deliver the required ground software for a mission. This involves the full software development lifecycle in an agile environment:

• Requirements capture
• Architecture and design
• Implementation
• Unit, integration and system testing
• Bug tracking and version control
• Peer reviews (including code reviews)
• User documentation
• Liaising with customers, including formal customer-facing presentations and customer training
• Support for satellite commissioning and in-orbit operations

Skills & Experience

Proven experience of developing Java based software running under MS windows

• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills, able to influence, persuade and negotiate with people at all levels (externally & internally) as well as to assist in reaching compromises when there are conflicting requirements
• High degree of organisation, self-motivation and initiative
• Good team working skills, together with the ability to interface with others at all levels
• Good presentation skills and customer facing skills
• Results orientated with a strong drive to deliver
• Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities
• Pro-active and able to take initiative
• Excellent planning and organising skills
• Highly organised with clear communication skills
• Ability to work simultaneously on a variety of projects
• Able to work autonomously and using own initiative
• Excellent inter-personal skills - both written and oral communications; ability to interface with customers and technical representatives
• Decision making and creative problem solving skills
• Ability to multi-task and deliver both immediate and longer term tasks
• Proven ability to deliver solutions under pressure and to tight timescales
• Good knowledge of MS Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Microsoft Project
• Able to demonstrate company mindsets and behaviours; Be accountable, Drive & delivery, Communicate effectively, Self-manage effectively, Work as one team
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SSTL prides itself on being a super flexible company.  The role is based in our Head Office in Guildford but we fully support hybrid working and a range of flexible working options.