Background
The world around us is experiencing significant change, the greatest in generations.
At McLaren 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
- Lead and manage a team of software engineers and testers, providing guidance, mentoring and coaching. Ensure best practices in Software Development are maintained.
- Promote and develop a culture of Continual improvement where Engineering teams are continually striving to be the best.
- 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
- Work closely with the Product Team to manage the resources required to achieve the product roadmaps considering recruitment, training, and the acquisition of tools and frameworks in a timely fashion to avoid delays in delivery.
- Work closely with senior managers and business leaders to develop efficient system designs and implement best practices in a supportive and forward-thinking environment
- 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.
- 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
- Track-record of end-to-end delivery at pace, excellent prioritisation skills and opts for a metrics delivery approach
- Experience in a fast-paced, large functioning engineering team, with a knack for driving improvements to streamline development across multiple development teams
- Demonstrable leadership, commercial awareness and with strong business acumen.
- Strong customer focus and be comfortable working closely with senior stakeholders at all levels.
Desirable
- Experience in, or enthusiastic, about motorsport
- Familiarity with our tech or equivalent technologies:
- Message brokers such as Kafka
- distributed computing, machine learning, data science
- Proficient in using technical task management and planning tools e.g. JIRA and good working knowledge of Microsoft Office systems
What we can offer you
In return for everything you bring to the table, we can ensure an exciting, challenging role in a dynamic business surrounded by some of the best people in their respective fields.
At McLaren Applied we firmly believe it’s the relationships and friendships we create while working that make us special. We’re also aware that the world is changing and we are part of that change. We all want and need different things from our work and home lives, so, if you have commitments outside of work, we’re open to talking through flexible working options that work for you and us.
- Annual leave (25 days + bank holidays, pro-rated for part time colleagues).
- Enhanced Company Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave and pay.
- Flexible working policies, including Hybrid Working.
- Life assurance to the value of 4 times base salary
- Opportunity to join the McLaren Applied Pension Plan
- Company funded individual private healthcare with the opportunity to extend to partner or spouse and/or dependents at a discounted rate.
- Ride-to-work with Evans Cycles – take advantage of the Government’s Cycle-to-Work scheme which offers savings of up to 42% on the cost of a new bike, cycling accessories and components.
- Electric car scheme – opportunity to drive a brand-new car in a more affordable way through this salary sacrifice scheme. Employees are eligible to join the scheme after successful competition of their probationary period.
Who we are
McLaren 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.
