RFID Solutions Integration Engineering Manager

HID; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Competitive benefits and annual leave

Extensive career development

Inclusive culture

Job summary

HID is seeking an experienced Solutions Integration Engineering Manager to lead a new multi-disciplinary team in Cardiff and Krakow, spanning hardware, firmware, middleware, apps and cloud services for RFID ecosystem solutions.

You will translate product roadmaps into integration architectures, establish reusable frameworks, define reference architectures, and ensure design choices support seamless system-level integration across islands of technology, while maintaining quality and security

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of professional engineering experience across the broader product stack, including at least 3+ years managing or leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience building or significantly growing a new engineering team, including defining its structure and practices.
• Breadth across the RFID identification ecosystem. Fluency across readers, credentials, key management, issuance, mobile credentials, middleware, and data services.
• Delivery experience spanning hardware, firmware, middleware, apps, and cloud services.
• Experience in system or solution architecture responsibilities for projects implementing smartcard, NFC, or RFID technologies.
• Strong working knowledge of identification, access control, RFID, or adjacent IoT domains.
• Familiarity with HID Credentials portfolio and industry standards; hands-on familiarity with credentialing ecosystems is advantageous.
• Track record of defining reference architectures and integration patterns adopted by other teams or partners.

Responsibilities

• Translate the ecosystem roadmap defined by Product Management into engineering plans, integration architectures, and delivery commitments.
• Establish reusable engineering frameworks and shared platforms across hardware, firmware, middleware, apps, and cloud services.
• Define reference architectures and integration patterns for use by the wider Reader BU and partner ecosystem.
• Incorporate integration considerations into product design early in the development lifecycle.
• Provide technical guidance across five disciplines and lead design reviews and trade-off discussions.
• Maintain alignment with architects across HID Global and cross-BA teams.
• Define and report metrics such as partner certification velocity and integration defect escape rate.
• Define the integration testing strategy and collaborate with QA and Security on threat modelling and certification.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cross-disciplinary

System architecture

RFID knowledge

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/EE or related

Tools

ISO 14443/15693

OSDP v2

FIDO2

CSA Aliro

Mobile credential standards

Job description

HID is seeking an experienced Solutions Integration Engineering Manager to lead a new multi-disciplinary team in Cardiff and Krakow, spanning hardware, firmware, middleware, apps and cloud services for RFID ecosystem solutions.

You will translate product roadmaps into integration architectures, establish reusable frameworks, define reference architectures, and ensure design choices support seamless system-level integration across islands of technology, while maintaining quality and security