Software Development Manager

The world around us is experiencing significant change, the greatest in generations.

At Motion Applied, we’re accelerating the response to that change. Our vision is that our people and technologies will pioneer a better future. Our mission is to achieve breakthroughs in performance.

We’re at the cutting edge of innovation in industries including automotive transportation and motorsport. We create solutions that drive efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

We want to help to reduce the carbon footprint and become more sustainable. Our focus is on electrification and telemetry, control and analytics.

To deliver efficient lightweight electric powertrain and vehicle development; motorsport solutions that make series more sustainable and efficient; reliable connectivity solutions for transportation and insightful analytics and monitoring of transport fleets.

By applying our expertise, we deliver real benefits and pioneer a better future.

Purpose of the Role

This role provides delivery responsibility for incoming work from customers, new features for motorsport and product development beyond motorsport. It reports to the Head of Software Products with a high degree of interaction across the entire Software Products team and with customers

You will work on a variety of challenges to deliver complex products and solutions for our ATLAS (Advanced Telemetry Linked Acquisition System) suite and other related systems. You will be passionate about technology and eager to use the most effective and applicable technologies, to create robust and scalable software.

You will work on a variety of challenges to deliver complex products and solutions, which ultimately enable race engineers and strategists to access powerful, race-winning insights in F1 and other motorsports series.

Our software combines many capabilities, including data capture, visualisation and modelling of real time and historic data for detailed analysis, reporting, anomaly detection and enabling the best strategic decisions to be made.

Principal Accountabilities

Inspiring and Leading

• Collaborate with software engineers and testers to ensure project goals are met. Provide guidance and ensure that development practices are followed
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and foster a culture of continual improvement with the engineering teams.

Project Excellence

• Work with Business Managers, Product Managers, Engineering and Operations to make sure Programmes and Projects are scoped and planned and delivered to meet budget, business case and customer requirements
• Ensure the successful execution of the MA’s software development strategy
• Ensure quality, scalability, and maintainability of code and software architecture.
• Work with Team Leads, identify and address any issues or challenges faced by the team and implement solutions to improve efficiency and productivity.
• Organise projects using a structured product development framework, with appropriate project phases and milestones.
• Facilitate governance & lead stakeholder management by ensuring regular reviews of progress and facilitating problem resolution across functions

Collaborative Leadership

• Coordinate with Team Leads and stakeholders to ensure resources are appropriately allocated to meet delivery timelines.
• Work closely with senior managers and business leaders to develop efficient system designs and implement best practices in a supportive and forward-thinking environment

Strategic Influence

• Shape the strategic direction of our products and services, balancing emerging technologies with legacy systems
• Keep the software development team at the forefront of the latest technologies and methodologies.

Customer focus

• Engage with customers and partners to gather feedback and ensure our solutions meet market needs and expectations.
• Communicate effectively with team members, stakeholders, and clients, providing regular updates on product progress and issues to manage expectations.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Ideally Degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related subject or equivalent technical or business-related subject.
• A deep understanding of aligning technology with business objectives, with a focus on continuous improvement and ability to drive architectural and system design discussions and decisions
• Demonstrable experience of successfully adopting an agile approach to project development or product improvement.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-based microservices architecture, CI/CD practices, and observability

Desirable

• Experience in, or enthusiastic, about motorsport
• Familiarity with our tech or equivalent technologies:
• Time-series database
• Message brokers such as Kafka
• distributed computing, machine learning, data science
• Proficient in using technical task management and planning tools e.g. Azure DevOps and good working knowledge of Microsoft Office systems

Who we are

Motion Applied are a medium-sized tech firm spun out of McLaren Group. We’re looking for people who will thrive in a non-hierarchical, growth-orientated company, self-starters who are flexible and somewhat entrepreneurial in their approach.

McLaren Applied are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) and promote DEI in all we do. McLaren Applied are also members of the UK Government Disability Confident Scheme.