Location: Cheadle, 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 the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, 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 - Cheadle/Stockport

The role covers the three related activities of Software Engineering Management, Software Work Package Management and deputising for the Head of SW Delivery for the Mine Counter Measures (MCM) portfolio.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Ensure relevant department/product/project management plans are kept up to date and the correct level of governance is executed for the WP products/projects
• Ensure SW development is performed in accordance with these plans and SSP Products Policy and fully engage in agile methodologies when applied
• Liaise with Project Customers as required
• Plan, coordinate and monitor the performance of the work, identify and manage risks during all the Work Package lifecycle until the closure
• Capture and monitor metrics appropriate to each stage of the project's/product's lifecycle, and enact plans to continuously improve the project/product development
• Review Engineering Forward Load in accordance with the strategic operational processes and maintain management view for resource/skill demands taking into account late breaking changes, and liaise with Software Team Leaders as appropriate
• Contribute to bid activities with regard to estimates, PV scheduling and bid gate review inputs
• Proactive in expanding your professional knowledge; seeking opportunities both within and outside of Thales to develop your professional knowledge in software, engineering and management
• Develop necessary skills and experience through training (on the job, classroom, e-learning), mentoring and feedback
• Encourage innovation of ideas as common practice encouraging new technology and techniques
• Provide support to less experienced members of the team, ensuring they are performing to the correct procedures and are not struggling in their work
• Lead by example and utilise the Thales Leadership model to create a high performing and culture and coaching environment

Key performance Indicators against Responsibilities and Tasks:

This role is continually monitored for performance and as such some of the following typical Key performance indicators (KPI's) will be used

• Delivery to timescales

• Delivery to budget, including management of scope changes.

• Delivery within quality KPIs as specified in project/product SDP.

• Completion of bids in accordance with bid plans.

• Refinement of processes and practices as a result of experience/feedback from work-package(s).
• Actions taken in conjunction with software team leader(s) to develop staff allocated to work-package.

• Performance against Thales key values

Essential Skills

• Good communication and inter-personal skills.
• Effective personal organisation and an ability to remain composed and focused under pressure.
• Organisational awareness, including customer and stakeholder management (internal & external) and negotiation.
• Ability to demonstrate leadership, drawing on appropriate expertise to reach decisions that gain the support of stakeholders.
• Self motivated, innovative and willing to exercise initiative.
• Ability to work within a team under pressure.
• Ability to engage and to develop members of the team.
• Ability to delegate appropriately to make best use of resources.

Essential Experience

• Knowledge and proven application of engineering project delivery and processes across the full project lifecycle with cognisance of commercial impacts and for large scale programmes
• Knowledge and experience of agile methodologies and practices
• Experience of configuration control and change management
• Experience of requirements management, software design and development
• Experience of Integration and Verification activities
• Experience of risk management

• Experience of bid management and estimation techniques
• Good understanding of current trends in software engineering development techniques and technologies

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