3715 IT & Software Developer jobs in the UK
Head of Software Engineering
£39,000 - 79,000
VERTICAL AEROSPACE GROUP LTD
Small Street, Bristol
£39,000 - 79,000
Requirements
Must:
- Senior leadership experience in software engineering or technology roles within complex, regulated, engineering-led environments.
- Proven track record of building and scaling software engineering teams and platforms.
- Strong understanding of software development in safety-critical or certification-driven contexts (aerospace experience highly desirable).
- Credibility at executive level, with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the software engineering strategy aligned to certification timelines, production ramp, and long-term commercial sustainability.
- Ensure software engineering priorities are tightly aligned with aircraft programmes and core business objectives.
- Own the software engineering roadmap, balancing speed, quality, safety, and regulatory compliance.
- Lead the delivery of software systems supporting engineering, airworthiness, flight test, manufacturing, and operations.
- Establish strong engineering practices across development, testing, deployment, and support.
- Ensure predictable delivery outcomes, effective dependency management, and proactive risk mitigation across the software landscape.
- Work closely with Solution Architects and enterprise architecture teams to ensure coherent, scalable, and compliant software designs.
- Ensure software solutions meet certification, safety, cybersecurity, and regulatory requirements.
- Drive high standards for code quality, system reliability, and lifecycle management.
- Build and lead a high-performing software engineering organisation across multiple disciplines and domains.
- Define the operating model, engineering standards, tooling, and vendor/partner strategy.
- Develop engineering leadership and talent to support rapid company growth and increasing system complexity.
- Act as a trusted technology partner to Engineering, Airworthiness, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Operations leadership.
- Represent software engineering at senior governance forums and contribute to executive-level decision-making.
- Translate complex technical considerations into clear, business-relevant insights.
Description
At Vertical Aerospace, we are pioneering electric aviation with our Valo eVTOL aircraft, which aims to establish new safety standards in the industry. We are transitioning from a prototype business to a scaling SME, targeting airliner-level safety certification by 2028. As we grow, we provide a flexible and supportive work environment that promotes ingenuity and challenges individuals to do their best work. Our benefits include generous holiday policies, a pension scheme, performance-based bonuses, and more. Join our team as we work collaboratively towards the future of Advanced Air Mobility.
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