Integration and Systems Validation Team Lead - MBDA : Job Details

Stevenage

We're looking for a Team Lead for our Integration and Systems Validation (ISV) team.

This role involves spearheading systems integration and validation efforts for digital simulation and experimentation products in a vibrant and expanding sector of the company.

Salary: Circa £57,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 3-4 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship.

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

• Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…

The opportunity:

Our Weapon System Simulation and Experimentation (WSSE) department bring together real products, models, synthetic environments and people throughout the systems life cycle.

Sitting within WSSE, the ISV Team provide proving best practice and capability to WSSE products right throughout the development cycle, in order to ensure the products are fit-for-purpose and delivery. This includes regular work in the brand new Digital Battlespace Facility, and is often fast-paced covering multiple rapid mini-projects, as well as supporting longer-term products for main projects.

Reporting to the ISV Technical Support Technical Expert (TX) you will manage the delivery of ISV support to all WSSE owned products, mainly:

• Managing the ISV Team to meet the WSSE proving/qualification needs:
  • Managing WLF, e.g. input to bids, work allocation, identifying skill/resource gaps
  • Line manage members of the ISV in WSSE team, including supporting development, performance management etc.
  • Working with Head of WSSE and Head of ISV to aid ISV-WSSE alignment
• Providing ISV best practice to WSSE projects to enable successful design, development & delivery
  • Test/Proving Planning: e.g. understand/input to customer needs and the system design/architecture from a proving perspective (including test bed needs), writing test plans and proving instructions.
  • Test/Proving Conduct: e.g. regular progressive assurance testing during software development, formal qualification testing, defect investigation, data analysis, external integration with customer/partners.
  • Test/Proving Reporting: e.g. regular informal reporting to project lead and stakeholders on software functionality, writing test/analysis reports for formal certification, support to software delivery/release process including certification.

What we're looking for from you:

• Good understanding of verification and validation
• Leadership skills, with people management experience
• Experience of agile principles preferable
• Ability to understand different system levels
• Functional or software test/proving experience preferable
• Dynamic, autonomous and proactive individual
• Ability to communicate, influence and engage multiple stakeholders
• Problem-solving mind-set
• Flexibility/ability to work in a fast-paced environment

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