Senior Software Assurance Consultant

Job Title:      Senior Software Assurance Consultant
Location:      Farnborough, Malvern, Boscombe Down, Lincoln or Portsmouth
Package:      Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
Role Type:    Full-time / Permanent
Role ID:        SF17588
 
Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Senior Software Assurance Consultant at one of our sites listed above where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.

The Role
As a Software Assurance Consultant, you will have a role that is out of the ordinary supporting Software delivery across multiple projects as part of a team that provides Independent Technical Assessment of the software of safety critical/related aircraft systems.

This is an exciting role where you will be carrying out Independent Technical Evaluation on aircraft focusing on the safety of the software.
 

Day-to-day, you will:

• Populate Software safety arguments under a goal structure establishing that a baseline exits for the Software under review.
• Establish that the Software is targeted to be developed to a known Software standard.
• Establish that process has been followed and the Software development and verification process is established and meeting the correct standards.
• Evaluate any changes down to the source code level which is written in SPARK Ada and the review of the associated Spark Analysis.
• Provide assessment in a format suitable to the project and interface with QinetiQ Systems and Safety Subject Matter Experts.

This role is a full-time position based at either one of our sites listed above and is flexible/hybrid working.
 
Essential experience of the Senior Software Assurance Consultant:

• Strong knowledge of aircraft Software development and of the recognised Software development standards.
• Extensive experience of Safety Critical Software development and safety engineering concepts.
• Experience working as a Software technical assessor or extensive experience working as a software engineer in a Safety Critical environment.
• Strong communication skills.

Qualifications for the Senior Software Assurance Consultant:

• A Technical Degree (Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or equivalent) or relevant technical experience

Please note that all applicants must hold, or be able to achieve for Security Clearance as a minimum.

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Our Benefits

• Adaptive and flexible working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal
• Holiday Trading
• Support for the Armed Forces community
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering

 
Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community.

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.  

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits.  You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more. 

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.