Author: Katerina

ITP Aero in Leicester is looking for an enthusiastic Software Graduate to join the software development team and to work on the development of our software product ESATAN-TMS.

Start date is ASAP

Salary is £28,000

Main Responsibilities

– Work efficiently within the development team on the maintenance of the product and on the implementation of new functionality

o Develop code to a given design and software development standards

o Perform testing of the code to agreed test plan

o Identify and implement code fixes for reported issues

– Actively contribute to ideas on the application of software technologies, ways to improve the product and its associated infrastructure

– Be flexible and adaptable within the Software team

Technical Skills Required

– Knowledge of Java, C or C++ programming languages.

– Understanding of software development lifecycle models and software engineering practices.

– Knowledge of object oriented software design.

– Ideally knowledge of graphic libraries, such as OpenGL, JavaFX or Ardor3D.

– Ideally some experience of MS Visual Studio, Eclipse, Jetbrains, design tool Visual Paradigm and experience with source code configuration control.

– Good technical problem solving skills.

Qualifications

– Bachelor degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science

– Master’s degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science, preferably 2:1

Person Spec

The ideal person will have a positive attitude, be flexible and adaptable and willing and eager to learn. Must have excellent communication skills and be able to work well as part of a team.

To apply for this position: please apply on the company website: www.itpaero.com Sometimes we get a lot of applications for our roles. On those occasions we might close the job early. If you don’t want to miss out we recommend submitting your application as early as possible.

Software Graduate Vacancy

ESATAN-TMS is a software product developed and maintained by ITP Engines UK Ltd. The product is used through-out Europe by most Aerospace companies involved in the thermal design of spacecrafts and launch vehicles. The software provides a complete graphical environment for building a 3D geometric model and the definition of all modelling parameters such as orbital missions and thermal boundary conditions. Radiative and thermal analysis is performed by the software.

As a software graduate, you’ll be working with a Senior Software Engineer in the area of developing the 3D graphical environment as well as introducing new user features to support our user’s needs. You will be working in both Java and C++ on Windows platform, and you will be using Visual Studio and Jetbrains as IDEs.

Job title:
E-Commerce Executive

Reports to:
Head of Online Trading

Main Purpose of Job:
The role of the E-Commerce Executive will be to manage and grow our portfolio of online marketplaces. This includes the day-to-day scope of online marketplace management; merchandise, optimise listings and implement seasonal marketing campaigns. This role is key in optimising sales and profitability through clear commercial planning and strategy, at pace, with meticulous attention to detail. The role encompasses all aspects of merchandising, implementing marketing activities, sales reporting and analysis to maximise sales profit.

Key tasks:
• Manage, expand and optimise on a day-to-day basis dedicated market places to increase
sales & profit across multi product categories
• Optimise product listings to the highest standard ensuring content is relevant and effectively drive incremental sales
• Constantly review gaps in our product range & new opportunities
• Work closely with the digital team to implement sales plan, pricing and product information
• Maximise utilisation of all marketing tools (e.g Amazon PPC advertising)
• Ensure customer service, feedback and product rankings are optimised
• Analyse product sales and channel performance to deliver optimum profitability with the
commercial & digital team
• Identify, analyse and propose innovations, promotions, efficiencies and new product
opportunities to grow sales.
• Build, manage and evolve relationships with key online trading accounts.
• Monitor and track competitor activity and pricing.

The above is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the organisation and the overall business objectives of the organisation.

Education and Qualifications:
• Ideally, a digital marketing or business related degree, or qualified through relevant level and type of experience
• Good general level of education in core numeracy, literacy, and ICT subjects

Relevant Experience:
• Ideally, relevant work experience in digital sales environment or an account management role
• Experience in building and driving sales in market places platforms (such as Amazon, eBay, etc)
• Mix of broad marketing skills and preferably (but not essential) specific knowledge of online marketing in an online retail environment
• Experience establishing and maintaining good working relationships with key retail accounts
• A sound and technical knowledge of tools and systems used across marketplaces,
• Understanding of digital marketing (but not essential)
Special Attributes/Individual Performance Characteristics:
• Excellent communicator and able to work in a confident manner
• Highly organised with excellent attention to detail

• Good understanding of how to trade, merchandise and market retail websites and how to manage relationships with key retail accounts
• A passion for internet retail and a solid understanding of the online marketplace and retail trends.
• Experienced in IT software package Excel, Word, Powerpoint
• Highly confident in using ecommerce platform or equivalent
• Happy to work alone or as part of a team
• Able to take constructive criticism
• Reliable and consistent
• Enthusiastic
• Conscientious & self-motivated

To apply, contact the HR Adviser Caitlin Hamilton (caitlin.hamilton@bazaar-group.uk).

Location

Dstl Newcastle, Catalyst Building, Newcastle upon Tyne

About the job

Summary

Be part of a new Dstl AI & Data Team in Newcastle.

Have you heard that Dstl is establishing a new team focussed on artificial intelligence and data science in Newcastle? Are you interested in being part of a new and unique team in a domain which is in growing demand across Defence and Security?

We are looking for hard working, experienced individuals to undertake exciting data science and artificial intelligence related research to help enable Defence to turn data into information advantage and to accelerate the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence across Defence.

We are seeking:
• AI Researchers
• Data Scientists
• Data Engineers
• AI Systems Thinkers

Dstl recognises the importance of diversity and inclusion as people from diverse backgrounds bring fresh ideas. We are committed to building an inclusive working environment in which each employee fulfils their potential and maximises their contribution.

We particularly welcome female and ethnic minority applicants and those from the LGBTQI community, as they are under-represented within Dstl at these levels.

Job description

In these roles you will:
• Bring your background and thinking to guide the research of novel techniques and capabilities to work on a variety of exciting and challenging problems that owing to their sensitivity cannot be done elsewhere.
• Make a difference and have pride in what you do; our work improves the front-line capability of the UK Armed Forces, keeps British citizens safe and support national prosperity.
• Form links across Dstl, Government, industry and academia. We work with an array of partners both at home and abroad including the Armed Forces, other Government departments and industry.
• Develop your career in exciting new areas that are growing to meet ground breaking challenges.
• Support Group wide technical activities such as technical forums, monthly meets and lightning talks and the mentoring of junior staff.
• We’re proud of our impartial status, doing things for the right reasons.

We love to publish academic papers and file patents. We’ve used open competitions (e.g. Kaggle) to access the very best worldwide expertise in machine vision. And we’ve sought to harness the power of the open source software community through the release of various tools on Github, for example Baleen and Stone Soup (https://github.com/dstl).

We give our people the freedom to think and innovate; working with others who are passionate about delivering quality technical solutions in a friendly and encouraging environment. And we offer loads of opportunities to keep up-to-date with the latest developments, through training and scholarships, attending and presenting at conferences, and working closely with industry and academic colleagues.
We will be running an online Meet and Engage session on Thursday 17 Feb between 5-6pm where you will have the opportunity to ask any questions about the roles we are recruiting for or the recruitment process itself. This will be a text based chat room, to register and attend the event please follow this link – https://meetandengage.com/akz8mzww1

Skills:
You will have knowledge and experience in one or more of the following areas:
Essential:
• AI and Machine Learning
• Data science research and development
• Systems engineering (applied to data / information / intelligence challenges)
• Data Engineering
• Data management/curation
• Digital signal processing
• Data architectures

Desirable:
• Experience working with industry or academic partners
• Experience setting organisational or technical direction and capability planning
• Knowledge of military systems and platforms
• Ethics/legal
• Human machine teaming
• Consulting skills

Responsibilities

We need great people! We’re looking for those with:
• The ability to develop positive and effective working relationships with internal colleagues and external stakeholders, partners and suppliers
• A desire to deliver world-class science and technology with the sole purpose of keeping the UK, our armed forces, security services, and our citizens, safe and secure.
• Able to successfully manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• The ability to apply statistical rigour, critical thinking and creative problem solving to a variety of data sets (e.g. text, imagery, geospatial, time-series), seeking out new, high-risk, high payoff technologies and techniques.
• A natural curiosity and independent drive to research, experiment and understand
• Enthusiasm and experience in applying AI, ML and Data Science techniques to complex problems.
• A strong focus on learning new skills and techniques in order to keep current and continue their own professional development.
• The ability to lead and work collaboratively to deliver innovative impactful results.

Qualifications:
Essential:
• A minimum 2:1 degree in a relevant numerical degree with working knowledge of mathematics and statistics e.g. data science, computer science, geospatial science, mathematics, statistics, physics, chemistry, engineering or related technical subject. Those with equivalent experience are also actively encouraged to apply.

Desirable:
• A higher degree (MSc or PhD) in a related subject is desirable although we are also keen to hear from those with equivalent experience.

Important Information
Our work in defence, security and intelligence requires our employees to be UK Nationals who are able to gain a high level of security clearance to undertake the projects we are involved in to protect us from security threats. For this reason, only UK Nationals will be able to apply for this role. If you are an international or dual-national candidate, and you think you have the skills we need, please consider applying to any of our government, security or defence partners.

This role will require full UK security clearance and you should have resided in the UK for the past 5 years. For some roles Developed Vetting will also be required, in this case you should have resided in the UK for the past 10 years.

If you are a current Dstl employee, you are encouraged to inform your line manager of your application as they can support you through the process and should you be successful it will help in negotiating a release date.

Work location
Dstl is strongly encouraging blended and flexible working either at one of our sites or from home or both. We want to empower you to undertake your duties at the most appropriate location for the task, however you will be allocated a Dstl site as a base. You may be required to travel to other Dstl and MoD sites as required.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Working Together
• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture

Click the link below to apply:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/defence-science-and-technology-laboratory/about/recruitment