Software Project Leader - Stevenage

Project Management
Ref: 8399 Date Posted: Wednesday 12 Mar 2025
Software Project Leader
 
Location:                 Stevenage
 
Salary:                     Up to £70,000 – Dependent on experience
 
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, who have a fantastic leadership (Software Project Lead) opportunity, which involves leading a team to deliver embedded software on time, on cost and on quality!
 
The Software Project Leader Role
The Real Time Software team is tasked with supplying software into advanced equipment, often developing on state-of-the-art processing platforms.
 
Interacting with a wider engineering 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 programmes. In a collaborative and close-knit culture, we support each other to search for better!
 
Software Project Leader experience required:
A leader in software (experienced or aspiring) focussed on team leadership and delivering software:
  • Proven ability to technical manage a team of software developers
  • Project management skills to ensure good planning, delivery and cost control of software
  • 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
  • A good understanding of software and the software development lifecycle including configuration management tools and techniques, to be able to provide effective oversight.
  • The ability to elicit and understand requirements and available design solutions so that you can produce accurate and cost effective estimates of work to be undertaken.
  • Understanding of UML and C, C++ and/or Ada Languages.
 
Please note:
Rules onsite require British Citizenship. Dual nationals can apply for this position, and you will be required to undergo UK Security Clearance.
 
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.
 
 
Cirrus Selection offers the services of an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and the services of an Employment Business for contract recruitment.

 

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