Job Title: Lead Software Engineer
Location: Hawthorn, Corsham – Majority of the role can be remote.
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65558
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 Lead Software Engineer at our Hawthorn, Corsham site.
The role
As Lead Software Engineer, you will oversee the full software development lifecycle, including the design, planning, execution, and validation of the SkyNet 6 New Management System (NMS), ensuring alignment with the project delivery framework.
Collaborating closely with the Lead Systems Engineer, Lead Test Engineer, Quality Assurance Team, and Project Manager, you will be responsible for delivering robust software solutions within tight deadlines across multiple project phases.
On a day-to-day basis, you’ll collaborate within an Agile software team to develop and review software delivery plans, refine User Stories and contribute to the definition of Business and System Requirements. Responsibilities include:
- Analysing data and tracking metrics to ensure that the solution is performing well.
- Contributing to the team activities, including hands-on development.
- Designing the product, updates and improvements.
- Documenting and defining guidelines (e.g. Software Delivery Plan) for delivering the system.
- Coordinating tasks among team members.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Hawthorn, Corsham. Majority of the role can be remote.
Essential experience of the Lead Software Engineer
- You must have experience leading a team of any size.
- You must have hands-on experience with C#.
Qualifications for the Lead Software 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 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 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What We Offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- ‘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
Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing - Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually
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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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.
Closing Date: 31/10/2025