Software Lead
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Description
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:
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.
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.
- 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*
- 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.
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