Software Development Manager

Software Development Manager

+ 6 month initial contract role

+ Hampshire based

+ £60 - £70 p/hour

+ Inside IR35

Key Skills

+ Team Lead/manager experience

+ Requirements modelling

+ SW Architecture

+ Embedded C/C++

The Role:

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. They will also review and update Software Development Process documentation to support RTCA DO-178C compliance.

Tasks & Accountabilities

• Manage the end-to-end Software Development Process to gain and maintain DO-178C compliance.

• 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.

Skills - most of:

• 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).