Director of Software Engineering – Fire - Rickmansworth - CSL DualCom Limited

    CSL DualCom Limited
    CSL DualCom Limited Rickmansworth

    1 week ago

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    Director of Software Engineering – Fire & Security

    An opportunity has arisen to work in our IT department.

    • We are a leading international IoT service provider specialising in sectors including Fire, Security, Telecare, Critical National Infrastructure, Retail and Water Utilities.
    • We are a rapidly growing, private equity-backed company with operations in multiple countries, including the UK, Ireland, the Nordics, Benelux, and Spain.
    • We have completed 6 acquisitions in 6 years, each one adding further expertise and scale to our market-leading propositions.
    • Our high performing team of experts is renowned for delivering leading solutions and services, backed up by world-class customer support across markets that demand nothing less than absolute certainty.

    This role is a new senior leadership position in our Fire & Security technology team responsible for defining and implementing software strategy, overseeing the engineering department, guiding the development of software solutions, and ensuring the successful delivery of projects.

    This role requires a strategic thinker with strong leadership skills, a deep understanding of software development processes and a proven track record of managing engineering teams and culture. Experience of the Fire & Security industry would be a benefit, and/or experience in design, build and test of hardware devices with embedded firmware and/or experience in building highly available, performant and scalable modern cloud platforms.

    Key Responsibilities:

    • The successful candidate must have relevant experience in building highly resilient, high transactional, business critical systems using Cloud native technologies.
    • You must have specific experience in Microsoft Azure / .NET / AKS technologies utilising Infrastructure as Code best practices.
    • You must have the ability to lead design, development, testing, deployment, alerting, infrastructure, CI/CD, version control systems, and services.
    • Experience in the management of electrical design, firmware development and manufacture of electronic devices.
    • An understanding of Production Engineering; factory processes and automated electronic test systems (custom fixtures).
    • You must promote and support Agile methodologies such as Scrum, and mentor team members to help them improve their technical abilities.
    • You will be familiar with standard tools such as JIRA, Confluence, SonarQube, Jenkins, Microsoft DevOps, Gitlab etc.
    • You will have demonstrable experience in management of internal teams, as well as offshore/nearshore resource models.
    • Working alongside an operating board or senior leadership team building strategic long-term relationships and ensuring the delivery of value to key business stakeholders.
    • Defining long term technology strategy as part of the senior technology team, ensuring this deliverable and achievable.

    Skills and Qualifications:

    • Establishing and deploying an environment for developing, continually improving, and securely operating software and hardware systems, products and services.
    • Establishing software architecture and design principles to enable the desired life cycle processes.
    • Develop and deploy the working environment supporting systems and software life cycle practices for strategic, large and complex products and services.
    • Leads activities to manage risks associated with systems and software life cycle working practices. Plans and manages the evaluation or assessment of systems and software life cycle working practices.
    • Maintain a close understanding of changes in software development tools, methodologies and languages and alter engineering strategy to maintain industry relevance.

    Salary:

    £80,000 - £100,000 per annum

    Job Requirements:

    • Planning, estimating and executing systems development work to time, budget and quality targets.
    • Adopting and adapting systems development life cycle models based on the context of the work and selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
    • Managing risks and allowing for timely adjustment of plans and deliverables to continue to meet customer requirements and deliver value.
    • Aligning systems development activity and deliverables with architectures and standards and ensuring quality, security and privacy are built in.
    • Identifying the resources needed for all stages (planning, estimation, execution) of systems development projects and how demand will be met with a supply capacity.

    Quality Management:

    • Defining and operating a management framework of processes and working practices to deliver the organisation's quality objectives.
    • Establishing a quality management system and a quality culture.
    • Applying techniques for the monitoring and improving the quality of any aspect of a function, processes, products, services or data.
    • Prioritises areas for quality improvement by considering strategy, business objectives and results from internal and external audits. Initiates the application of appropriate quality management techniques in these areas.
    • Identifies and plans systematic corrective action to reduce errors and improve the quality of the systems and services.

    People Management:

    • Leads the implementation of formal organisational processes such as recruitment, reward, promotion and disciplinary procedures.
    • Providing opportunities for personal growth and learning.
    • Leads on the implementation of organisational strategies for employee engagement.
    • Providing professional development advice and support for individuals Identifying appropriate learning and development or career-enhancing activities. CSL operates as an equal opportunities employer and we welcome all applications regardless of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy, or maternity.


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