Graduate Scientific Software Developer , Tessella

Location: Vacancies in Abingdon, Stevenage and Warrington

Salary: BSc/MSc £23,000 - £26,000; PhD £26,000 - £29,000

Tessella is a global software services and IT consultancy company that works with some of the world's biggest and well known organisations to solve complex real world problems.

The Role

A career at Tessella offers a varied, challenging and rewarding opportunity to combine your science background with your interest and ability in software engineering. You will get to:

• Work closely with our customers to help identify and define their requirements.
• Help design and develop tailor made software solutions.
• Be involved in all stages of the software development lifecycle.

We recruit only the most talented individuals, so you will enjoy working with like-minded colleagues, who are among the best in their field. We work in object-oriented languages, using a variety of frameworks and all of our projects call upon the natural problem solving abilities, domain expertise and technical excellence of our consultants.

You may not have heard of Tessella but you will certainly have heard of our customers. We work with some of the biggest names in the pharmaceutical, energy and consumer goods industries, as well as organisations in the public sector. The projects we undertake are extremely challenging and require the ability to adapt to new technologies, industries and environments.

Training and Career Development

Our staff have an annual training allowance of 150 hours, which can be used to learn a new programming language, develop consulting, business analysis and project management skills or earn recognised professional qualifications. Your progression through the company is also driven by you. We offer a technical career path for staff who wish to focus on technology and become technical architects of our software, or a more managerial route for staff who wish to develop their organisational and people management skills to become project managers and line managers.

What We Look For

We are looking for bright, enthusiastic and high achieving graduates to help create and develop innovative technical solutions for our customers. From the start of your career at Tessella, you will be making a tangible contribution to real projects. You should have:

• BSc (minimum 2.1), MSc or PhD in science, technology, engineering or mathematics, with strong A-levels or equivalent
• Programming experience in one or more of the following: Java, C, C#, C++, .NET or Python
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical solutions to customers and colleagues from all backgrounds
• A desire to gain experience working across a range of industries, including pharmaceutical, nuclear, defence and more

Tessella recruits the people with the best skills for each role and we do not discriminate on any grounds.

About Tessella

Founded in 1980, Tessella is the international provider of scientific software engineering and consulting services. World leading organizations choose our unique blend of science, engineering and sector expertise to deliver innovative and cost-effective solutions to complex real-world commercial and technical challenges. Our people are high achievers from leading universities and are passionate about delivering value to clients. We are proud that our work makes the world a better place to live in: developing smarter drug trials; preserving the digital heritage of nations across the globe; minimizing risk in oil and gas exploration; controlling the orbit and attitude of satellites; researching fusion energy.

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