Software Team Leader

Sedgefield
2 weeks ago
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We are looking to appoint a Team Leader to join our growing team to supervise and coordinate a technical group to provide expertise and lead on medium and large scale projects in Health Tech fields such as IVD, Medical devices, wearables, sensor technologies, connectivity and drug delivery devices. Proven track record of managing and leading software engineering teams within a regulated environment (medical devices will be an advantage).

The Team Leader will draw on a broad range of technical know-how to provide carefully thought out advice/expertise to a range of stakeholders, offering innovative solutions and contributing extensively to development and improvement activities.

Key tasks:

To oversee the design, development, and maintenance of software applications and systems.
To ensure code quality and adherence to coding standards through regular code reviews and mentoring
To stay updated on emerging technologies and best practices in software engineering and implement them within the team
To supervise the Software team, ensuring delivery of departmental goals, through appropriate delegation and providing feedback and motivation to team members. This includes providing first line-management support, allocation of resource to ensure project delivery and short-term planning of deliverables.
To actively contribute to a culture of continuous capability development through coaching, mentoring and/or developing colleagues across the technology team and organisation, providing insights into areas of specialism.
To formulate and present possible solution directions and issue advice, building an internal reputation as a reliable and credible authority.

About You

It is essential that you are Educated to HNC or Foundation Degree level (or equivalent) in a Scientific/Engineering discipline and have industrial experience. You must be able to demonstrate significant, technical expertise in software development and display evidence of complex technical problem solving.

It would be great if you also had experience of supervising a small group or team within a operational environment and a supervisory or management qualification.

Experience in design and development of software medical devices, knowledge of systems engineering V-Model processes, and skills in systems engineering/systems integration in a commercial product development environment is also desirable.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

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