Senior Software Engineer - Geospatial

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As a National Grid employee, you’ll treat our customers as a priority, taking time to listen and work with them to help give them the best experience we possibly can. You’ll need to be proactive and flexible in your approach and continually look for ways to exceed their expectations – sometimes in unexpected and helpful ways. You’ll provide accessible information when our customers need it and make things simple by using your expertise to guide them. Above all, you’ll follow through on your promises to deliver value, drive efficiency and give them a great customer experience.

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Job Purpose

Engineering systems within National Grid IT solution engineering provides solution engineering and agile-at-scale software delivery for asset management and geospatial applications/GIS. The Tech Lead & Senior Software engineer for GIS/geospatial platform will be responsible for providing technical leadership to the National Grid IT geospatial projects working in an agile team under the supervision of the solution engineering manager and the resources from various offshore/onsite delivery/SI partners and be technically accountable for engineering and design aspects of several projects and programmes in the geospatial platform/GIS application area from initiation to completion that deliver business change and subsequent benefits. As a key member of the project delivery/agile release trains, the team is expected to leverage the expertise and technical depth of knowledge in GIS area to successfully execute projects.

About The Job

The senior software engineer for geospatial platform will provide the software engineering leadership, facilitation, analysis and design tasks required for the development of National Grid’s GIS platform and integration with other products where GIS is consumed as part of a composite service. The senior software engineer for geospatial platform will also create deliverables that help develop target-state software artefacts (reusable standards, guidelines, individual parts and configurations) for evolving the applications across the National Grid application estate, in order to enable business strategy and deliver targeted business outcomes. The senior software engineer for geospatial platform will facilitate and orchestrate the delivery of targeted business outcomes through technical leadership in a project or across multiple projects.

About You

• Demonstrated experience of leading GIS projects in an agile delivery environment as tech lead working with software engineers, scrum masters and product owners supporting the successful execution of the project/projects
• Subject-matter expert of geospatial platforms like ESRI ArcGIS, geospatial domain particularly in utilities, transportation or manufacturing sectors, emerging technologies like geospatial and temporal analytics, appreciation of AI/ML, IoT as applied in the geospatial domain particularly for utilities sector
• Experience of supporting agile delivery at scale and optimisation of projects/programmes aligned to the SAFe framework
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions with engineering team members, other architects, and the GIS product owners and resolve conflicts. Proven ability to engage with wider stakeholders, external OEM and SI delivery partners and other stakeholders in a constructive and collaborative relationship
• Good working experience of onsite/offshore, leading remote teams, provide software engineerural governance, and serve as a technical coach and mentor for more junior members of the team.
• Passionate for geospatial technologies and abreast of current and emerging geospatial technologies and platforms
  

Qulaification

Educated to at least a degree level in engineering, computing or a relevant discipline or, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Desirable: Agile certified (SAFe), technical background in ESRI GIS platform

More Information

Closing date: 14th July, 2021

Location: Wokingham or Warwick

A competitive salary between £44,000– 52,000, dependent on capability

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

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