Offshore Renewables Software Engineer

Job Description

Overview

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our growing team, to help develop and maintain software that supports the delivery of major offshore wind projects. This role will bridge software development and engineering, delivering reliable solutions and promoting good software development practices across the wider team.

Your role

• Design, develop, test, deliver and maintain software applications that automate offshore wind engineering processes.
• Develop solutions for areas such as geometry generation, analysis automation, data processing and results visualisation.
• Collaborate with engineers and other stakeholders across multidisciplinary teams to understand business needs and define software requirements.
• Translate engineering requirements and calculations into robust, maintainable software.
• Produce high-quality, well-structured and well-documented code that follows coding standards and software engineering best practices.
• Reduce software risk through automated testing, code reviews and controlled release processes.
• Participate in DevOps activities, including work planning, estimation and the setup and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines.
• Produce clear user and developer documentation.
• Support users and stakeholders during the introduction and ongoing use of software applications.
• Support and mentor engineers in developing engineering scripts, helping them deliver projects and adopt good practices for producing reliable, maintainable code.
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of software standards, processes and guidance.

About you

Essential experience and skills

• A degree or equivalent professional experience in software engineering and structural engineering.
• Professional experience developing applications using Python.
• A strong understanding of object-oriented design and general software design principles.
• Experience writing clean, modular, maintainable and testable code.
• Experience creating and maintaining automated unit tests.
• Experience using Git-based version control.

Desirable experience and skills

• Developing web applications using technologies such as JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, Node.js and React.
• Integrating software with specialist engineering applications, such as SESAM, Abaqus or Autodesk Inventor.
• Experience in the design or analysis of offshore structures.
• Working with relational or non-relational databases.
• Using cloud platforms and container technologies.
• Developing Excel based tools using formulas and VBA.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.