Feature Integration Engineer

Contechs; Lighthorne; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Contechs in Gaydon, United Kingdom, is seeking a Feature Integration Engineer on a contract basis to oversee that software feature content for a vehicle programme is defined, delivered and signed off to target. This role will be based at Gaydon and requires strong systems engineering and project management skills.

You will coordinate with Marketing, Programme Management and Vehicle teams, align plans with technical domains, manage design specification development, and monitor readiness for

Qualifications

• Relevant Degree or equivalent level qualification or experience in a relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Oversee that the software feature content for a vehicle programme is clearly defined, delivered and signed-off to target.
• Coordinate with Marketing, Programme Management and Vehicle teams to agree the customer experience offering for each feature.
• Align plans with technical domains that will deliver it and manage feature design specification development.
• Report readiness for deployment and progression through testing maturity levels to launch.
• Regularly discuss risks and plans for new features and organise feature demonstrations for customer experience assessment.

Job description

Position Title: Feature Integration Engineer

Duration: Contract

Location: Gaydon

Duties

• A vacancy for a Feature Integration Engineer has arisen, to be responsible for overseeing that the software feature content for a specific vehicle programme is clearly defined, delivered and signed-off to target.
• This involves understanding the customer experience offering of each feature, agreeing this offering across stakeholders such as Marketing, Programme Management and Vehicle teams and then aligning plans with the technical domains that will deliver it.
• Throughout the vehicle programme, the Integration Engineer works with the technical domains to manage the feature's design specification development to assess and report out on readiness for deployment and subsequent testing progression through all of its maturity levels through to launch.
• The role includes regular discussion with feature owners to collate and understand risks and plans for new features and regularly reports out a full status via a consolidated report, as well as organising feature demonstrations so that the customer experience can be assessed.

Skills:

• Good understanding of software/feature integration and systems engineering principles
• Experience in the planning and integration of complex electrical and software systems in an automotive or similar discipline
• Experience of leading engineering product delivery using project management techniques;
• Proven ability to interpret and use technical data along with business skills for decision-making
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills - able to collaboratively influence across all business functions and at different levels;
• Competent user of Microsoft Office software applications - Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams etc

Education:

• Relevant Degree or equivalent level qualification or experience in a relevant field.