Software Lead

Date Posted:

2026-02-27

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

Warminster, Wiltshire

Position Role Type:

Unspecified

Software Lead

Warminster based, hybrid working

Be at the forefront of transforming British Army training.

About us:

At OMNIA® Training, we’ve brought together some of the UK’s most innovative defence training organisations under one powerful mission: to transform the British Army’s training system and create the best-trained Army in the world.

OMNIA are redefining the British Army’s collective training. To do that, we are looking for the best and brightest minds from across the UK. We are backed by British innovation and powered by world-class experts, like you. OMNIA is at the heart of the UK’s bold Land Industrial Strategy.

The role:

This is more than a job — it’s a mission. You will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, where we expect everyone to live the values and standards of the British Army. Every person in our team plays a critical role in delivering OMNIA’s vision; designing, delivering, and transforming collective training so the British Army is ready to fight and win.

You’ll work in a matrix organisation and report operationally through OMNIA Training and functionally through the Chief Engineer. Ultimately, you’ll work for the British Army, championing innovation, and helping shape the future of military collective training.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable software solutions with a cloud-first mindset, leveraging cloud-native services and infrastructure.

• Define and promote development best practices, including containerisation strategies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) to ensure portability, consistency, and efficient deployment.

• Lead low-level design efforts, translating architectural guidance into detailed technical specifications and implementation plans.

• Support estimation and planning activities, providing technical insight and effort assessments for new features and enhancements.

• Drive the delivery of roadmap features, making informed decisions that directly impact product success and customer value.

• Conduct and guide peer code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards, performance optimisation, and maintainability.

• Champion continuous improvement, identifying opportunities to refine code quality, development workflows, and team collaboration.

• Provide technical direction and mentorship, helping team members navigate complex problems and adopt modern engineering practices.

• Design and implement new product functionality, ensuring it aligns with cloud-first principles and supports scalability and resilience.

• Develop automated test artefacts, including unit, integration, and regression tests, to support CI/CD pipelines and reduce manual effort.

• Integrate automation solutions across ACTS services and deployment processes to improve efficiency, reliability, and repeatability.

• Treat data as a strategic asset, ensuring data flows, storage, and processing are secure, performant, and aligned with business intelligence goals.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, data, and operations teams to ensure technical solutions meet business and user needs.

• Campion the inclusion of monitoring and observability to improve operational and in-life support for the products delivered into service.

Who we are looking for:

You’ll have a mission focus, and the enthusiasm and drive to ‘get things done’.  You’ll want to work in collaboration with other defence training organisations, and the British Army. You won’t let bureaucracy get in the way of what needs to be done, you’ll learn lessons and share these lessons across the team. You’ll understand what it means to put the mission first.

We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Software Lead to drive the development and integration of solutions across the Army Collective Training Service (ACTS) programme. This role combines hands-on software engineering with technical leadership, guiding development teams in building scalable, secure, and cloud-native applications that support the ACTS’s strategic vision.

As a key technical leader, you will collaborate closely with the Enterprise Architect and Chief Engineer to design and maintain a robust set of cloud hosted systems and services. You’ll ensure that software solutions align with architectural principles and enable the effective assurance and delivery of systems and services across ACTS. This includes integrating legacy systems and leveraging cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and MODCloud (OCP) to deliver modern, resilient capabilities.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Hands-on experience and deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, MODCloud) and API integration.

• Experience designing and building data warehousing and Lakehouse technologies.

• Proven experience leading software development teams in cloud-native environments using Agile.

• Strong proficiency in modern programming languages and their frameworks such as Python, Java, JavaScript, Go, .NET Core/.NET 5+ …..etc

• Experience with API management and gateway tools and services.

• Experience of RESTful APIs for ingesting and exposing data.

• Experience in DevSecOps Tooling and Processes

• Self-starter with the ability to appropriately prioritise and plan complex work in a rapidly changing environment

• Excellent communication skills with ability to interact with stakeholders at all levels.

• Holder of current SC clearance, or the ability to gain

• Familiarisation with some of the below;

• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Tekton or Azure DevOps.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.

• Containerisation and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Static and dynamic code analysis tools (e.g., SonarQube, Snyk, OWASP ZAP).

• Secrets management and identity access controls (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, AWS IAM,Keycloak).

• Monitoring and logging for security and performance (e.g., ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana).

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• MSc/BSc in Software Engineering or equivalent professional accreditation such as CEng.

• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools and frameworks such as JUnit, NUnit, Selenium, Cypress, Postman, or PyTest,

• Background in performance tuning for high-throughput, low-latency data systems.

• Relevant cloud platform certifications such as AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Solution Architect Associate, Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate, Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert ….etc

• Knowledge of machine learning data pipelines and MLOps practices.

*Formal offers to successful candidates will be conditional upon award expected December 2025*

What we offer:

• Be Part of a Groundbreaking Mission
  Join the UK’s most advanced defence training alliance, where industry experts converge to push boundaries and deliver excellence.

• A Culture Built on Collaboration
  Work in an inclusive, high-performing team that celebrates ideas, supports growth, and is laser-focused on delivering results.

• Team dynamics
  You will be part of a team that works together, across multiple organisations united in one mission.   

• Work Across Borders, United in Purpose
  Operate across organisations with one shared goal - improving capability across all domains.

• Drive Innovation
  Your voice matters. We champion new ideas, welcome change, and believe in continuous improvement with a growth mind-set.

• Shape the Future
  Play a crucial role in a long-term, future-facing programme with real-world impact on national defence.

• Career Growth & Benefits
  Enjoy a strong benefits package, ongoing development opportunities, and clear pathways to progress within a trusted defence industry partner.

OMNIA® Training and its partners are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and identities — what matters is your passion, your expertise, and your dedication to the mission.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.  

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