Technical Project Manager jobs in United States

This is a fantastic leadership (Software Project Lead) opportunity, which involves leading a team to deliver embedded software on time, on cost and on quality!

Salary: Circa £72,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: typically 4 to 5 days per week on-site, due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship.

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

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  Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
  
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  Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
  
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  Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
  
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  Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
  
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  Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more...
  

The opportunity:

The Real Time Seeker Software team is tasked with supplying software into advanced seeker equipment (a sub-component of a missile), often developing on state of the art processing platforms.

Interacting with a wider Seeker team (including Systems, Hardware and Firmware Teams), this role presents the opportunity to deliver complex software solutions, as part of a deliverable product, deployed into missile programmes. In a collaborative and close-knit culture, we support each other to search for better!

Join us as a Software Project Lead and take our technology and your career into new territories.

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  Can you provide inspiration and leadership to software teams?
  
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  Do you have the process adherence and quality focus to develop safety-critical software?
  
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  Are you committed to make AGILE/SCRUM/SixSigma/DevOps methods of software development a success?
  

What we're looking for from you:

A leader in software (experienced or aspiring) focussed on team leadership and delivering software. We are looking for a Software Project Lead (SPL) who can build high-performing teams and create strong working relations with the multidiscipline project environments. These project environments include financial & budget control, system design, electronic design, safety, security & quality.

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  Proven ability to technical manage a team of software developers (typically 5 to 10 engineers)
  
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  A proven record of managing a software budget and have the confidence to control change to the requirements and costs, against an agreed estimate/budget
  
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  Understanding of UML and high level languages such as C and C++
  
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  Project management skills to ensure good planning, delivery and cost control of software
  
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  A good understanding of software and the software development lifecycle including configuration management tools and techniques, to be able to provide effective oversight.
  
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  The ability to understand requirements and available design solutions so that you can produce accurate and cost effective estimates of work to be undertaken
  

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