Job summary

Want to work for a successful business, who develop advanced specialist systems to deliver war fighting edge in the modern maritime and underwater battle space?

Key skills required for this role

Software management/lead software/project management/software lead/technical lead software

Important

Software management/lead software/project management/software lead/technical lead software

Job description

Want to join a company a trusted and reputable company with a broad portfolio of capabilities across the Maritime domain?

Overview

Important: All applicants must be able to obtain Security Clearance *minimum 5 years UK residency*

Working: REMOTE with travel to the office as needed.

Want to work for a successful business, who develop advanced specialist systems to deliver warfighting edge in the modern maritime and underwater battlespace?

The company have a number of awards, most recently been named as an Award winner (Gold Award) in MoD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme!

Responsibilities:

• Day to day management of the software engineering scope ensuring the development program is on track.
• Compiling reports on progress and managing the budget and estimates to complete.
• Interfacing with internal and external customers as required.
• Fostering a good working relationship with the software team leads and ensuring that the processes are in place to enable them to do their work.
• Working closely with the other subsystem leads to ensure that dependencies are tracked, and issues dealt with promptly.
• Setting up and chairing program reviews at the different stages of the software development life-cycle.
• Understanding of Industry best practice and identifying how it can be integrated into the programs with minimal disruption.
• Contributing to greater alignment on tools and practices across the teams as we look to streamline our development processes.
• Fielding, triaging, and addressing day to day issues from the program teams as they arise

Experience needed:

• Ideally qualified to degree-level or equivalent experience in a Physics or Engineering based subject, such as; Electronics, Hardware, Computer Science, Software or Systems Engineering etc.
• Experienced in managing a SW Development team.
• Experienced in coordinating resources from a variety of global locations.
• Experienced in chairing technical meetings with a variety of stakeholders including the customer.
• Experience of gathering and reporting metrics and presenting them at monthly program reviews.
• Good degree in a STEM subject with some experience of software development either as part of post graduate work or industrial experience.
• Coaching and mentoring of junior staff

Desirable:

• Experience in the Defence / Aerospace or safety regulated environment would be advantageous
• Knowledge of a software development language C++, Java or Python would be an advantage
• Knowledge of Agile development processes or similar would be an advantage.
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps or similar would be an advantage.

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