Software Team Manager

Location: Paignton, Devon - On-site or Hybrid (3 days per week on-site)

25 days' annual leave, employer pension contributions up to 8%, private medical insurance for employee & dependants, life assurance (4x salary), spouse death in service pension and group income protection.

Curo are partnering with a globally recognised engineering organisation that develops market leading software and hardware solutions supporting communications, positioning and defence technologies. Their cutting edge test, assurance and positioning solutions help customers accelerate innovation from development through to real world deployment. This is an opportunity to join a business at the forefront of technological innovation whilst leading a highly skilled engineering team.

The successful candidate will have management responsibility for the Software Development team whilst providing technical leadership across the architecture, design, development and delivery of the core software product portfolio. This is an opportunity to lead both people and projects, influencing technical direction whilst developing a high performing engineering team.

Reporting to the Senior Software Team Manager, you'll work closely with Engineering Management, Product Management, Supply Chain, Business Development and the PMO. You'll balance people leadership with technical oversight, resource planning and the successful delivery of multiple software development projects whilst championing engineering best practice.

• Lead and coordinate the Software Development team.
• Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering projects.
• Contribute to the software vision, strategy, architecture and product development.
• Oversee software project planning, execution and delivery with the PMO.
• Support technical and commercial proposals for new opportunities.
• Promote engineering best practice and robust design standards.
• Mentor, coach and develop engineers.
• Manage resource planning and technical priorities.
• Contribute to design reviews and continuous improvement.

• Proven Software Team Leadership experience.
• Strong C++ background with Python experience.
• Software architecture and technical leadership.
• Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Git, JIRA and Confluence.
• New Product Introduction (NPI) experience.
• Knowledge of Project Management tools and methods.
• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrable mentoring and coaching experience.
• Ability to inspire, motivate and develop engineers.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary projects through the product lifecycle.
• Comfortable working on defence related projects.
• Strong commercial awareness and business acumen.