Overview
As our Head of Engineering Software, your responsibilities will include:
Responsibilities
* Lead and coordinate software development across three groups, ensuring alignment with departmental objectives.
* Define and deliver the long-term software strategy for simulation, data systems, and engineering platforms.
* Partner with IT, Engineering, and remote teams to align roadmaps, manage joint projects, and ensure timely delivery.
* Act as the technical authority across diverse software domains and technology stacks.
* Drive the evolution of the software architecture, promoting common frameworks, APIs, and infrastructure for reuse and maintainability.
* Implement innovative technical solutions that improve reliability, quality, and development speed.
* Develop and maintain a high-quality SDLC tailored to the fast-paced demands of F1.
* Ensure consistent adoption of shared software infrastructure to enable coherent tool evolution.
* Identify and deliver opportunities for continual improvement and performance advantage.
* Track emerging technologies and define adoption roadmaps that enhance group capabilities.
* Prioritise and manage workloads effectively across all teams.
Qualifications
* Minimum of a Computer Science degree or equivalent.
* Demonstrable experience in managing a software engineering team including remote teams, preferably within an engineering environment.
* Strong people leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
* Hands-on experience developing high-quality software solutions.
* Broad technical expertise across software design, development, and deployment, including containerisation, Infrastructure as Code, microservices, artifact management, and build pipelines.
* Experience developing data streaming and processing solutions using technologies such as Kafka and Spark.
* Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, C#, C++, and Golang.
* Desirable: Experience with HPC systems and large-scale distributed data analytics engines.
* Desirable: Experience in Formula One or a high-performance engineering environment.
Benefits
* Competitive benefits package including a generous bonus scheme.
* Mercedes car lease scheme.
* Private medical cover.
* Life assurance.
* 25 days' holiday.
* Family-friendly culture and team-wide focus on well-being.
* Accelerate 25 programme supporting diversity and inclusion.
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