Software Engineering Manager

at  Thales

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom
Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.
Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
Thales Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) UK is a principal supplier of Unmanned Air Systems (UAS), Electronic Warfare (EW) and Radar equipment to the UK armed forces, as well as an exporter of these capabilities world-wide.
We are growing and now looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join our team in Crawley with opportunities to collaborate with Thales sites in the UK and overseas.
As a Software Engineering Manager you will be responsible for a range of activities from the design, implementation and test of Human Computer Interface, to Signal processing and middleware products, always keeping in line with the best industry standard tools and methods
Responsible for delivery of software components / solutions through software development, test and integration activities verifying programme requirements. Your expertise will be looked upon to mentor and support the team of Software Engineer.

EXPERIENCE: IDEALLY WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

Experienced in full software lifecycle (e.g. planning, analysis, requirements, design, development, test & integration, maintenance)
Desirable – Knowledge of DOORs, UML, C++, Jira, Subversion, GIT, Linux & Windows OS, Embedded & Graphical Software
Knowledge of Software processes and standards (e.g. AQAP 2210, DO-178, DEF-STAN 00-56)
Confident with Software development environments and practices (e.g. Model / Test based development, Continuous Integration / Deployment)
Have managed or coached a software Team to include; planning, tasking, metrics, risks, reporting, configuration management
Understands technical solutions
Customer acceptance
Management of key stakeholders
Desirable - Knowledge of Agile - Scrum
This is an exciting opportunity to join a specialist business unit developing the next-generation of technologies, for which we are world-renowned.

We are a forward looking business that develops cutting edge products:

• Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) which are revolutionising modern warfare
• Radars that are capable of detecting foot prints in the grass when someone has walked across a field
• Digital Radar Electronic Support Measures (RESM) that provides situational awareness and identify threats even in busy Electronic Transmission Environments
• Radar Electronic Countermeasures (RECM) that can protect assets by denying tactical advantage and distracting incoming threats.

As a People 1st Employer, we are enthusiastic about providing you with opportunities to advance your engineering career and are committed to giving our employees the support they need to reach their professional goals. We offer opportunities for people with ambition to attain greater levels of responsibility, either in a Technical or Managerial capacity, providing development pathways towards roles such as Engineering Manager, Architect or a recognised Thales Specialist or Expert.

• Specify and prove designs to meet project operational requirements.
• Ensure adequate forward planning is performed for project activities and to capture the output in the relevant development plan.
• Generate project cost and schedule information and ensure it is reviewed and reported to project on a regular basis.
• Ensure the product is delivered on time and to budget.
• Identify and pro-actively manage project risks and ensure that risks are assessed and reported to project on a regular basis.
• Support project ‘team building’.
• Ensure that project safety and airworthiness requirements are addressed in a manner consistent with company processes
  If you are currently in a Software Lead, Principle or Software Engineering Management role already and enjoy the process, product and delivery of software solutions…. then we want to hear from you.