Software Engineering Manager

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.

Software Engineering Manager

Crawley

Core Benefits: Competitive Salary plus bonus, private healthcare, 201 hours holiday and pension plus other great benefits such as excellent maternity/paternity leave.

About the role:

You will be a key member of the Software Development team based at our state-of-the-art facility in Crawley. As a Software Engineering Manager, you will also help develop the next-generation of technologies, for which we are world-renowned. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with other Thales sites in the UK and overseas.

Some of you duties will include but not be limited to the following:

• To originate, 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.
• To generate project cost and schedule information and ensure it is reviewed and reported to project on a regular basis.
• To ensure the product is delivered on time and to budget.
• To identify and pro-actively manage project risks and ensure that risks are assessed and reported to project on a regular basis.
• To support project 'team building'.
• To ensure that project safety and airworthiness requirements are addressed in a manner consistent with company processes

Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

We are committed to hiring individuals with a “can do” and positive attitude with a willingness to learn and improve on skills and knowledge. We are looking for an individual with a good foundation in computer science and software development along with (most of) the following skills and attributes:

• Knowledge of Software life cycles and methodologies (including Agile Scrum)
• Knowledge of Software development environments and practices (e.g. Model / Test based development, Continuous Integration / Deployment)
• Management of Software Teams; planning, tasking, metrics, risks, reporting, configuration management (ideally by utilising the Primavera product)
• Understands technical solutions
• Customer acceptance
• Management of key stakeholders
• Experience as a  Software Engineering Lead responsible for the delivery of software components / solutions

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