Ordnance Survey

We have an exciting opportunity available for a Principal Engineer to join our team. This role will be based at our state-of-the-art Headquarters in Southampton, however, all our people, where they can, are currently working from home. As such, we are open to applications that can deliver work remotely where appropriate. In return, you will receive a competitive salary .   Ordnance Survey (OS) provides national mapping services for Great Britain and is a world-leading provider of geospatial solutions. OS location data and expertise has helped governments make smarter decisions, businesses gain valuable data insight, and everyone experience the world outside for over 225 years.   We offer fantastic benefits in return for joining us as our Principal Engineer:   - Competitive salary plus performance-related bonus - Competitive pension - 37 hour working week (with flexible working options) - 25 days annual leave (30 days after five years), plus bank holidays and an extra 3 over Christmas - A suite of excellent additional benefits   About the role:   We have an opportunity for a highly motivated Principal Engineer to join our Technology & Design department in developing the next generation cloud-based systems, that drive our world-leading geospatial and business applications. Providing organisational and technical leadership to our forward-thinking agile teams, you will influence strategic direction across our Data Engineering domain.   Having a thirst for knowledge and the ability to think creatively are highly valued in OS’s engineering culture and ethos. You will be working with a wide variety of techniques and technologies, such as Azure DevOps, Azure Cloud Services, Azure Data Platform, FME, and ESRI technology stacks.   Providing industry-leading expertise, informing, and enabling the strategic objectives of OS, you will lead the software development of complex and high-profile projects, working with senior stakeholders across the business to develop roadmaps to address strategy.   Your organisation-wide thought leadership, training, and direction will facilitate collaboration with senior business stakeholders, and allow you to influence, shape, design and challenge roadmaps and objectives. Through collaboration with project and delivery managers, you will also track the progress of technical delivery.   What we’re looking for in our Principal Engineer:   - Industry-leading skills in software engineering & best practice (e.g. SOLID, Agile, TDD, BDD) - Expert knowledge in one or more of the following: Azure DevOps, Azure SQL, C#, Python, Javascript - Good knowledge and understanding of system development in Azure cloud environments - Demonstrable ability to lead, coach and mentor engineering teams - Excellent track record in collaborating with senior business stakeholders - Proven track record in leading complex software development projects - Proven track record in the development of technical strategies - Experience working with Geospatial data, ESRI or FME (desirable)   Our growing Technology and Design team plays a key role in ensuring OS is at the cutting edge of geospatial capability and is looking for people to join them. Its mission is to work across the business to provide customer-centric design and technology services.   If you would like to be part of this, please click apply now to be considered as our Principal Engineer – we’d love to hear from you!   Closing Date: Sunday 28th March 2021

We have an exciting position available for a Senior Data Engineer to join our team based at our HQ in Southampton, however all our people, where they can, are currently working from home and we recognise the future need to be flexible; as such we are open to applications that can deliver work remotely where appropriate. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £53,754 - £63,240 per annum. Ordnance Survey (OS) provides national mapping services for Great Britain and is a world-leading provider of geospatial solutions. OS location data and expertise has helped governments make smarter decisions, businesses gain valuable data insight, and everyone experience the world outside for over 225 years. We offer fantastic benefits in return for joining us as our Senior Data Engineer: - Competitive salary plus performance-related bonus - Competitive pension - 37 hour working week (with flexible working options) - 25 days annual leave (30 days after five years), bank holidays, and an extra 3 over Christmas - Plus, a suite of excellent additional benefits About the role: Joining our Data Engineering team, our Senior Data Engineer will provide leadership and expertise in developing new techniques, tools and pipelines. You will transform and manipulate geospatial data into forms suitable for visualisation, analysis and further development with your Agile team. Providing insight and experience to inform data-driven decision-making, your focus will be on building, maintaining and troubleshooting data processing systems to meet business requirements; with an emphasis on security, reliability, fault-tolerance, scalability, fidelity, and efficiency. Researching and utilising cutting-edge big data and machine learning technologies to automate and simplify processes, is all part of the role. You’ll be a key team member in one of our development teams, with the primary focus of your day-to-day activities being data manipulation and delivering data pipelines to aid development. What we’re looking for in our ideal Senior Data Engineer: - A degree-level qualification in a quantitative discipline or significant experience in a relevant field, such as statistical modelling or mathematics - Experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud Services (or similar) - Working knowledge of Databricks and Spark - Relevant programming language(s) and databases - Geospatial data processing and analysis techniques - Influencing key business and technical stakeholders, with strong presentation and consultancy skills - Providing technical coaching and mentoring Our growing Technology and Design team plays a key role in ensuring OS is at the cutting edge of geospatial capability and is looking for people to join them. Its mission is to work across the business to provide customer centric design and technology services. If you would like to be part of this, click apply now to be considered as our Senior Data Engineer, we’d love to hear from you! Closing date: Sunday 28th February 2021

We have an exciting position available as a Senior Solution Architect to be based at our HQ in Southampton, however all our people, where they can are currently working from home and we recognise the future need to be flexible. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £60,690 - £71,400 per annum. Ordnance Survey (OS) provides national mapping services for Great Britain and is a world-leading provider of geospatial solutions. OS location data and expertise has helped governments make smarter decisions, businesses gain valuable data insight, and everyone experience the world outside for over 225 years. We offer fantastic benefits in return for joining us as our Senior Solution Architect: - Competitive salary plus performance-related bonus - Competitive pension - 37 hour working week (with flexible working options) - 25 days annual leave (30 days after five years), bank holidays, and an extra 3 over Christmas - Plus, a suite of excellent additional benefits About the role: We are currently looking for a Senior Solution Architect who can provide architectural leadership across one or more business and/or technology domains. This role puts you right at the heart of what OS is about – a world-leading digital business with unparalleled expertise in the creation, management and exploitation of geospatial data, providing our customers with the solutions and services that give them the information and insight they need. Key duties as our Senior Solution Architect will include: - Setting technical direction within a business or technology domain, whilst working with stakeholders to define the system and/or technology roadmaps that realise that direction - Ensuring programme / project architectures within your domain are aligned to organisational direction, technical strategy and roadmaps - Leading, mentoring and directing a team of solution architects - Building relationships with suppliers and delivery partners to ensure appropriate use of new and emerging technologies - Representing the domain to internal and external stakeholders, providing consultancy as appropriate to ensure confidence in the IT solutions provided What we’re looking for in our Senior Solution Architect: - Experience of working as a Solution Architect within a complex business environment - Accountability for the design and specification of system roadmaps and architectures, aligned to business strategy - Collaborating with and influencing key business and technical stakeholders - Providing leadership to technical teams (e.g. solution architects, software engineers, technical experts) - Defining and delivering enterprise-level Geospatial solutions - Delivering cloud-native digital services Knowledge and experience in the following would be advantageous but not essential: - Certification in, or experience of, TOGAF or equivalent frameworks Our growing Technology and Design team plays a key role in ensuring OS is at the cutting edge of geospatial capability and is looking for people to join them. Its mission is to work across the business to provide customer centric design and technology services. If you would like to be part of this, click apply now to be considered as our Senior Solution Architect, we’d love to hear from you! Closing date: Sunday 21st February

We have three positions available for highly motivated, technical and analytical individuals to join us as a Software Test Engineer based at our HQ in Southampton, however all our people, where they can are currently working from home and we recognise the future need to be flexible; as such we are open to full time remote working opportunities. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £36,414 - £40,698 per annum.   Ordnance Survey (OS) provides national mapping services for Great Britain and is a world-leading provider of geospatial solutions. OS location data and expertise has helped governments make smarter decisions, businesses gain valuable data insight, and everyone experience the world outside for over 225 years.   We offer fantastic benefits in return for joining us as our Software Test Engineer:   - Competitive salary plus performance-related bonus - Competitive pension - 37 hour working week (with flexible working options) - 25 days annual leave (30 days after five years), bank holidays and an extra 3 over Christmas - Plus, a suite of excellent additional benefits   About the role:   As our Software Test Engineer, you will join our Technology and Design Team and work to develop the next generation systems that drive our world-leading geospatial and business applications.   Working within an agile team, you will be responsible for designing and driving out automated tests, in addition to executing manual test suites to ensure adequate and effective test coverage. You will provide test assurance of the user stories according to the defined acceptance test criteria; whilst working in a test-first environment using cloud architecture.   Working closely with Software Engineers, you will deliver the test activities to meet the functional and non-functional requirements and ambitions of our stakeholders, whilst contributing to effective agile delivery. You will regularly participate in estimation activities and are encouraged to identify opportunities to maximise test benefits within the team.   What we’re looking for in our Software Test Engineer:   - Experience of tests around non-functional test activities using TDD/BDD - The ability to design and write test harnesses in C#, Python or Scala - Experience of agile methodologies and working closely with engineers, advising on engineering improvement - Experience of automating tests in a test-first CI/CD environment such as Azure DevOps - The ability to design the appropriate end to end test approach for complex backend systems - Experience of testing in the could and knowledge of the Azure Portal (or similar) - Qualified to Foundation Level in Software Testing ((or equivalent) - Experience of allocating and prioritising own work when working on multiple tasks - Experience of designing and implementing tests around functional test activities using TDD/BDD   Our growing Technology and Design team plays a key role in ensuring OS is at the cutting edge of geospatial capability and is looking for people to join them. Its mission is to work across the business to provide customer-centric design and technology services.   If you would like to be part of this, click apply now to be considered as our Software Test Engineer, we’d love to hear from you!   Closing date: Sunday 21st February 2021

We have an exciting opportunity available for a Software Engineer (Java) to join our team based at our state-of-the-art Headquarters in Southampton however all our people, where they can, are currently working from home. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £36,414 - £42,840 per annum. Ordnance Survey (OS) provides national mapping services for Great Britain and is a world-leading provider of geospatial solutions. OS location data and expertise has helped governments make smarter decisions, businesses gain valuable data insight, and everyone experience the world outside for over 225 years. We offer fantastic benefits in return for joining us as our Software Engineer (Java): - Competitive salary plus performance-related bonus - Competitive pension - 37 hour working week (with flexible working options) - 25 days annual leave - (30 days after five years) bank holidays and an extra 3 over Christmas - Plus, a suite of excellent additional benefits About the role: As our Software Engineer (Java), you will join our established project team and work to deliver customer requirements at pace and to a high standard using Java programming. You will have daily contact with stakeholders and team members, and you will write code using best practices to ensure it is clean and testable. Working within an agile delivery methodology, you will ensure software is secure and well tested to optimise delivery. What we’re looking for in our Software Engineer (Java): - Experience in Java and Cloud technologies - A track record in problem resolution, selection of technical solutions and applications - Experience of providing fully capable software development and configuration - Experience in designing and implementing RESTful API’s - Knowledge of modern engineering best practice like TDD, BDD and Automated Testing - A proven track record in iterative and incremental development - Qualified to relevant development certification (or equivalent) Our growing Technology and Design team plays a key role in ensuring OS is at the cutting edge of geospatial capability and is looking for people to join them. Its mission is to work across the business to provide customer-centric design and technology services. If you would like to be part of this, click apply now to be considered as our Software Engineer (Java), we’d love to hear from you! Closing date: Sunday 14th February 2021