Software Integration Engineer in Eastleigh

At GE Aerospace, we are reinventing the future of flight. As a Software Integration Engineer in the XMAN team, you will help deliver cloud-based services that support air traffic management by applying GE Aerospace expertise in navigation and guidance systems. This is a hands-on engineering role spanning software development, system integration, verification, and deployment support. Working with a global, cross-functional team, you will contribute across software integration, verification, customer acceptance, deployment, and operational support to help deliver secure, reliable, and high-quality solutions. Occasional travel to customer or GE sites will be required.

Key responsibilities

• Integrate software across with customer systems, managing interfaces, configurations, and dependencies to ensure reliable functionality.
• Support customer integration activities and formal acceptance testing for cloud-based deployments, including issue triage, resolution, and closure.
• Plan, develop, automate, and execute verification and validation activities.
• Support product security, reliability, and operability through monitoring, log and metric analysis, incident investigation, and problem management.
• Produce and maintain quality and compliance evidence, including requirements traceability, reviews, test results, release notes, and safety case inputs, appropriate for regulated environments.
• Contribute to architecture and design discussions, including performance, scalability, resiliency, supportability, and cybersecurity considerations.
• Design, implement, test, and maintain software features and integration tooling in an Agile environment using modern engineering practices.

Essential Required Experience

• Experience integrating systems with customers through initial engagement to formal acceptance testing.
• Experience producing quality, traceability, and compliance evidence for regulated environments, ideally aligned with standards such as DO-278A/ED-109A.
• Experience with automated verification and validation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college or equivalent knowledge and experience in systems or aerospace engineering.

Highly Desirable Experience

• Developing and/or verifying software for high-availability or safety/mission-critical systems for Air traffic control systems.
• Working in Agile software development environments.
• With CI/CD pipelines, automated builds, and test execution frameworks.
• With cloud deployments and operational support in production environments.
• With strong hands-on development in C# and .NET Core/.NET for backend services, APIs, distributed systems, and integration layers.
• Triaging failures, isolating root cause across software and integration boundaries, implementing corrective actions, and preventing recurrence.

Desirable Experience with:

• Azure cloud services.
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Deploying and operating workloads on Kubernetes.
• Python for automation, scripting, integration tooling, data processing, and support utilities.
• Linux system administration.

Desirable behaviours:

• Takes ownership of work items and drives them through to completion with limited oversight.
• Identifies risks early and proposes practical mitigation actions.
• Demonstrates a bias for action, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Maintains high attention to detail and a strong commitment to quality.
• Understands the operational impact of technical decisions.
• Uses data to prioritise improvement opportunities.

Flexible Working

GE Aerospace supports and encourages flexible working arrangements, where possible, and recognises the benefits to employees of having a positive work-life balance.

Total Reward

At GE Aerospace we understand the importance of Total Reward. Our flexible benefits plan, called FlexChoice, gives you freedom, choice and flexibility in the way you receive your benefits, as well as giving you the opportunity to make savings where possible.

As a new joiner to GE we are pleased to be able to offer you the following as default in your benefit fund, which you then can tailor to meet your individual needs:

• Non-contributory Pension
• Life Assurance
• Group income protection
• Private medical cover
• Holiday Hourly equivalent of 26 days, with flexible option to buy or sell

Security Clearance

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance is required and must be maintained for this role. Please note that in the event that BPSS clearance cannot be obtained, you may not be eligible for the role and/or any offer of employment may be withdrawn on grounds of national security.

Right to Work

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, under the applicable UK immigration rules as may be in place from time to time, it may be that candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled candidate who does not require sponsorship is available to take up the post.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No