Design Authority Team Leader - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Sepura

Sepura

Verified Company

Cambridge, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are seeking a passionate, and enthusiastic Team Leader to own and help drive the solutions and quality of our product design and development

The role requires an individual who is innovative with proven ability to generate new ideas and approaches to problems. Self-driven and motivated with ability to use own initiatives and steer and mentor the Design Authority team.

The Team Leader will be able to promote and share technical decisions and choices made with the wider business and is driven to provide the best and most timely solutions that enable Sepura to provide best in class products.

The Design Authority Team Leader will work in close partnership with Product Management to convert customer and market requirements into cost effective, flexible and innovative solutions, working together with R&D Teams from first concept through to delivery of a product and platform.

Main Duties
Main responsibilities are working collaboratively and building strong working relationships with all key internal and external stakeholders.

Leadership, development and resourcing of the team to ensure that we attract, engage and develop high calibre talent that will meet the strategic needs of Sepura
Setting the overall direction, priorities and development of your team
Acting as a Design Authority on Sepura R&D Projects
Providing technical leadership to the engineering teams through mentoring
Ownership of Design Authority team performance
Review and improvement of development processes
Responsible for establishing & monitoring a consistent, high quality and effective method of delivering the key outcomes from the team, converting customer requirements into products in an efficient and cost effective way
Build strong and successful relationships across the teams involved in end to end delivery to generate engagement in projects and implementation, clearly defining ownership and responsibility and ensuring projects/products are delivered on time, at the target cost and to specification
Work in partnership with the PMO, PSG, ATG & R&D teams to deliver platforms and products, with end to end system design responsibility.
Ownership of product platforms and their performance (functionality, longevity, cost, size and technical risk) and their roadmap, working to minimise obsolescence throughout the life cycle
Ensure efficient handover from DA activities into the development teams
Working with ATG to transition ATG projects into R&D
Ensure a consistent and effective method for project delivery

Stakeholder Management

Communications planning, reports and status updates
Risk, Issue, Action Management across the team and active projects

Person Specification

Qualifications:

Essential
Relevant technical engineering degree
Due to the nature of our UK customer base, the individual may be expected to complete UK Security Clearance (SC) vetting.

Experience:

Essential
Proven Team leadership experience
At least 5 years proven industry experience in an equivalent role
Selfstarter with ability to demonstrate technical leadership within a multidisciplinary product development environment
Strong understanding of product development lifecycle principals
Broad experience of multidisciplinary electronics engineering product development
Experience partnering with senior stakeholders to ensure product designs fulfil functional and nonfunctional requirements and align with broader technical and architectural goals
Experience of specifying technical requirements and taking a lead role in delivering against these requirements
Experience aligning product development standards and frameworks with the business and technology strategy
Track record of delivery

Experience:

Desirable
Experience of RF communications system development
Experience interfacing with software development teams

Skills:

Essential
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to bond with technical and operational customers up to senior levels
Ability to work independently and under pressure
Commercial and organisational awareness
Possess strong problemsolving skills

Attitude:

Essential
Can do attitude
Innovative with proven ability to generate new ideas and approaches to problems
Selfdriven and motivated with ability to use own initiative and take a technical lead
Able to promote and share technical decisions and choices made with the wider business
Excellent analytical, numerical, written and verbal communication skills
Ability to motivate a team through strong leadership and technical competence
Ability to communicate well to both technical and nontechnical personnel across multiple disciplines
Ability to work well in focused teams, sometimes against tight deadlines