ATMS Engineering Manager: Software Leadership & Delivery

Raytheon UK; Harlow; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme up to 10.5%

Life assurance 6x salary

25 days holiday

Company bonus scheme

Flexible benefits (Health Cashplan,)

Enhanced family leave

Enhanced sick pay

Early finish Friday

Job summary

Raytheon UK is hiring a Software Engineering Manager for the ATMS division in Harlow. The role leads a multidisciplinary software team delivering critical software solutions for military and civil customers, focusing on architecture governance, delivery performance, and capability growth.

The role combines people leadership with hands-on software delivery, ensuring compliant, high-quality software in a safety-critical environment. Hybrid work is available with strong ties to the Harlow site.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
• Experience leading software engineering teams across the product lifecycle.
• Experience delivering complex software in regulated, safety-critical or mission-critical environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Eligible for UK MOD Security Clearance (SC minimum).

Responsibilities

• Lead ATMS software engineering team across programmes, product developments and R&D activities.
• Provide leadership, coaching, mentoring, and career development for software engineers.
• Lead preparation of technical proposals, software estimates, and technical responses to bids.
• Lead software architecture, design and development activities with internal and external partners.
• Drive Agile delivery, DevSecOps principles and CI/CD practices.
• Establish software engineering standards, governance, and metrics.
• Lead software integration, verification, validation, and release activities.
• Collaborate with Systems Engineering, Test & Integration, Product Management and Cyber Security teams.
• Managing software quality, maintainability, technical debt and risk.

Skills

Software leadership

People management

SDLC management

Agile / DevSecOps

Software architecture

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Architecture modelling tools

Job description

Raytheon UK is hiring a Software Engineering Manager for the ATMS division in Harlow. The role leads a multidisciplinary software team delivering critical software solutions for military and civil customers, focusing on architecture governance, delivery performance, and capability growth.

The role combines people leadership with hands-on software delivery, ensuring compliant, high-quality software in a safety-critical environment. Hybrid work is available with strong ties to the Harlow site.