Firmware Manager


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Listed on

3rd May 2018

Location

Oxford

Salary/Rate

£60000 - £70000

Type

Permanent

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Key Skills: Embedded, C, Firmware, Management, Technical Lead, Manager, Appraisals, Recruitment, Reviews, Agile.

I am urgently seeking a Firmware Manager for a company based in Oxford who develop a range of popular and innovative products used around the world. You would be joining a company who are growing quickly and taking on the best engineering talent on the market. They are now looking for a manager to drive performance and lead by example.

Ideally, you will have some recent hands on technical experience in order to lead the team by example, and competently get involved with design reviews. This is, for the most part, a hands off role, although you may from time to time be involved with design work if absolutely necessary.

The Role: Firmware Manager

Location: Oxford

Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 (+ 10% Bonus)

The Role:

* Lead a small to medium sized team of excellent firmware engineers through the full development lifecycle, on a range of existing and new product lines.

* Recruit, train and conduct appraisals for staff members, whilst report effectively into the Director of Firmware.

* Lead by example, and be an expert within the embedded software field. The role is fairly hands off, but from time to time you may be required to develop products yourself, so recent experience is essential.

* Responsible for major project/sub project deliverables, showing full ownership across all project disciplines.

* You will have strong initiative with the ability to identify and resolve potential issues before they have significant impact on project timescales.

Key Skills:

* Proven successful team or technical leading of a software development team through an entire project lifecycle, including multi-site interactions.

* Proven embedded software experience (C programming).

* Experience of system architecture analysis / definition with subsequent requirement capture / validation of complex module requirements.

* Familiar with conducting appraisals, ideally with some experience recruiting.

* Has experience of / or is interested in Project Management (They uses Agile methodologies.

This is a word class company, who are well respected and renowned within the technology sector. They now require someone with natural management ability and a strong technical background to lead a team of 7-10 talented and passionate embedded software engineers. This role would also suit someone who is looking to take the step up from a principal engineering role, where perhaps you have had some management/project management experience.

Their regularly develop new features to their products, and likewise you would be tasked with developing existing and new product ranges. The company offer a brilliant benefits package, including a 10% bonus, other performance related add-ons, share scheme and a generous pension contribution.

The company are looking to move quickly on this, and are available to interview within the week.

If you would like to learn more about the role, and think you have the skill set required, please get in contact with me at Computer Futures on 0117 910 33 55.

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To find out more about Computer Futures please visit www.computerfutures.com

Computer Futures, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 1st Floor, 75 King William Street, London, EC4N 7BE, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC387148 England and Wales

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