Software Development Manager

£70 per hour inside ir35

6 months (extension highly likely)

Farnborough - Hybrid working

One stage virtual interview

Immediate start date available

Sector: Aerospace & Defence

Yolk Recruitment are recruiting for a software development manager to working with a leading aerospace company setting new standards in UAV capabilities.

The successful candidate will design and document the software architecture. Support the planning of the next software increments/release/sprint and contribute to the definition and improvement of design.

This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside a project setting the industry standard for a frontier technology.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the end-to-end Software Development Process
• Elicit, analyse and derive requirements from stakeholder needs or upper- level requirements, over the successive system decomposition levels.
• Write requirements in compliance with quality criteria, avoiding over- and under- specification.
• Manage specificities of interface requirements.
• Define & justify the requirements allocation to the given system elements taking into account the architectural interfaces and constraints, (e.g. requirements constraining system architecture), ensuring traceability.
• Manage requirement changes, including impact analysis and requirements baseline establishment.
• Verify that the sub-system, equipment and component's requirements are correctly and completely implemented.
• Ensure software is tested and retains MISRA-C compliance and high-levels of statement coverage.

Key Skills:

Not all skills are essential, and we do not expect a candidate to possess all the technical aspects listed below. We welcome applications even if you do not have experience with all the skills listed below.

• Previous Team Lead / Management experience is essential.
• Project planning and estimating
• Requirements modelling and documentation.
• Software architecture and Detailed Design documentation.
• Embedded Functional C and C++.
• Python (test scripts).
• Experience developing Airborne Master Software.
• Experience developing safety related/critical software to RTCA DO178 DAL C.
• Experience conforming to MISRA-C/C++ coding standards.
• Experience with static and Dynamic Analysis tools.
• Understanding of Hardware interfaces (Complex Electronic Hardware, FPGAs)

Desirable Skills:

• Eclipse IDE.
• Tortoise SVN (Change Control System).
• Modelling in UML (Sparx Enterprise Architect).
• Trace32 (Dynamic Analysis).
• PC-LINT (Static Analysis).
• Microsoft Visual Studio.
• Conduction Software code reviews.