Software Project Lead Location: Stevenage Work Policy: Typically for this role, you will work 4-5 days on-site. Salary: Up to £70,000 Headline Benefits: A bonus of up to 21%, Strong pension, 25 days annual leave, enhanced parental leave. We’re working with an award-winning, world-leading, technical & scientific engineering organisation, with sites across Europe, that have an exciting opportunity for a Software Project Lead. Their order book stretches for many years, and they have healthy profits and a range of new projects in place. They’re stable with steady controlled growth, offer dynamic working, and fantastic opportunities to grow and develop your career further. The business are firm believers in offering all staff the best possible platform to succeed, providing support for career development as well as personal assistance. They hold numerous awards on the back of this work and have a range of employee networks and internal communities that include Parents and Carers, Gender Equality, Neurodiversity, Pride, Ethnic Diversity and many more. They really care about their staff and are passionate about what they do and why they do it. The Software Project Lead position: As a Software Project Lead, you’ll be leading the on-time, -cost, -quality delivery of software for one of their key products. The product is in a maintenance phase, so deliveries are incremental and focused around product improvements eg. robustness and feature upgrades. You’ll technically lead a small team of engineers, leading day-to-day activity and act in a part design authority, part project manager role. You’ll collaborate with customers across subject areas including financial and budget control, system design, electronics design, safety, security and quality. The software is developed in Ada and Rapsody, so you’ll be supporting the architecting, design, implementation and testing of subsystem software within the team. Software Project Lead experience required: * Understanding of UML and C, C++ and/or Ada. * Ability to technically manage a team of software developers. * Project management experience in planning, delivery and cost control of software. * The ability to communicate in the company across a range of mediums. * Knowledge of software development lifecycle including configuration management tools. * Able to elicit and understand requirements and available design solutions for accurate and cost-effective estimates of work to be undertaken. Please note: Rules onsite require British Citizenship. Dual nationals can apply for this position, and you will be required to undergo UK Security Clearance. Cirrus Selection offers the services of an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and the services of an Employment Business for contract recruitment