Engineering Technical Lead

Expleo Group; Preston; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Expleo Academy training

Competitive benefits

Disability confident employer status

Job summary

Expleo is seeking an Engineering Technical Lead to head a team of software, testing, and delivery engineers focused on embedded automotive software. You will drive MATLAB/Simulink development, model-based design, and HiL testing within an agile V-cycle framework, coordinating requirements, design, and release with the customer.

You will line-manage engineers, oversee risk mitigation, and ensure on-time delivery with high quality.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electronic Engineering, Embedded Systems or closely related discipline.
• Exposure to Functional Safety standards (ISO 26262) is a plus.
• Experience leading a software/ testing team in automotive projects.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical authority, leading software architecture and Simulink models.
• Line-manage and mentor a team of software and test engineers.
• Ensure deliverables on time, within quality, and compliant with requirements.
• Lead stand-ups and agile ceremonies for the team and customer.
• Identify technical risks and propose mitigation actions.

Skills

MATLAB/Simulink

Embedded software

HiL testing

V-cycle development

Team leadership

Requirements management tooling

Agile/sprint delivery

Technical documentation

Risk management

Clear customer communication

Education

BEng / MEng in Electronic Engineering or Embedded/Software

ISO 26262 awareness training desirable

Tools

IBM Doors

Polarion

Jama

Job description

Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.

The Engineering Technical Lead will serve as the primary customer interface and lead a team of software, testing, and delivery engineers from requirements, through testing to release of the embedded software. Working within an agile V-cycle delivery framework the team is responsible for software architecture, MATLAB/Simulink model development, unit testing, component and HiL integration testing. Close collaboration and clear communication to the team and the customer is essential ensuring customer requirements are met on time.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical authority across all assigned work packages, leading production and review of software architecture documents, design artifacts, Simulink models and testing activities.
• Manage the engineering team ensuring all deliverables are achieved on time and to quality, contractual and legislative requirements.
• Lead stand-ups and sprint ceremonies for the Expleo team.
• Identify, assess and elevate technical risks, proposing clear mitigation actions.
• Ensure resource capability and skill allocation are suitable for the project.
• Be the technical focal point of the team and build good working relationships with customers. Manage continuous improvement.
• Line-manage and mentor team of software and test engineers.

Qualifications

• Degree (BEng / MEng) in Electronic Engineering, Embedded Systems, Software Engineering or closely related discipline.
• Functional Safety (ISO 26262) awareness training desirable.

Essential Skills

• Hand-on experience in model-based automotive embedded software development using MATLAB/Simulink.
• Demonstrable experience developing Simulink application software development for body domain.
• Experience with automotive unit, component and HiL testing.
• Familiarity with requirement management tools such as IBM Doors, Polarion, Jama or similar.
• Understanding of V-cycle software development methodology within the automotive industry.
• Proven track record leading a team of software and testing engineers.
• Experience in technical review and approval.
• Ability to interpret complex functional requirements and translate them into clear technical designs for a development team.
• Skilled in project delivery, experience in operating within an agile sprint delivery model with the ability to balance multiple concurrent work package deliveries.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present technical status and issues clearly to both engineers and managers.

Desired Skills

• Heavy duty automotive experience.
• Knowledge of Euro7 emission legislation and its software/control implications.
• Experience working directly with OEM or Tier 1.
• Experience managing distributed teams.

Experience

• Detail-oriented with a commitment to deliver robust and well documented software.
• Pragmatic and solutions-focussed with a measured approach to risk.
• Collaborative and transparent.
• Self-motivated with a continuous improvement mindset.

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ourpeers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• ExpleoAcademy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

Disability Confident Committed Employer

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive