Head of Systems

**Key Responsibilities**
- Leadership of the systems engineering and software development teams within Overview. Ensuring the capability, capacity, process and tools in these groups meet the business needs.
- Direct line management of the systems team and the software team leads.
- Capture of stakeholder requirements from internal and external customers for new products, variants or problem spaces.
- Formation, management and ownership of system/subsystem requirements specifications.
- Definition and documentation of system architectures and trade-off studies, and obtaining agreement to these with the relevant stakeholders.
- Ownership for the creation and maintenance of system-level documentation & technical manuals. This documentation should be sufficiently comprehensive to ensure that the scope of delivery is unambiguous and the contribution required from each functional team can be clearly identified.
- Ownership of technical roadmap for system and software development and architecture reuse.
- Development & maintenance of system-level test and integration plans and management of verification exercises with agreement from stakeholders.
- Support the Technical Director in driving the efficient use and continuous improvement of the Engineering and New Product Development business processes and tools.
- Interface directly with customers (internal and external) for both new product development as well as product support.
- Project and commercial management of outsourced partners, including selection, preparation of requirements, Statements of Work, preparation of sub-contract agreements and performance management.
- Work with the other functional leaders to ensure that new project proposals are accurately assessed in terms of project approach, deliverables, timescale, budget and resource requirements.
- Preparation of high-quality customer-facing bids and proposals.
- Ownership of Overview bug tracking and release management tools.

**Skills and Qualifications**
- Degree qualified in an engineering discipline. Master's level preferred.
- Proven experience in the development, line management & leadership of world-class software development teams, including embedded software definition, development tests and configuration management.
- Significant experience in a manufacturing industry with integrated mechanical, electrical and software products.
- Proven expert at writing and managing requirements.
- Experience writing test plans and managing integration/verification/qualification.
- Excellent communications skills and fluency in English - both spoken and written.
- Experience managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
- Demonstrable initiative and leadership in problem-solving.
- Experience of regular interaction with customers.
- Demonstrable experience in industry as a systems engineer & experience leading systems engineering teams.
- Proven experience with requirements management processes and tools.
- Experience in coaching/leading others.

Preferred:

- Experience writing test procedures.
- Experience with supporting products through the lifecycle.
- Project technical leadership.

**Why work for us?**

We are an exciting, growing company committed to excellence and innovation.

We greatly value the hard work, ingenuity and integrity of our team.

We provide an environment for rapid personal development.

**Benefits**
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays (increasing with service)
- Employee discount platform
- EAP & online GP
- Early Finish Friday
- Discretionary Bonus Scheme
- BUPA Medical Insurance & Cashback plan
- Flexible start & finish times & hybrid working (role dependent)
- Cycle to work scheme & Rail season ticket loan
- Company-funded professional subscriptions (up to £250 per year)
- Personal development supported
- Free refreshments, fruit and snacks
- Free Parking

**What we do.**

Overview, a rapidly growing UK SME, develops and manufactures market-leading Autonomous Sensors Systems and Integrated Servo Drives for global markets.

Technology leadership is core to Overview’s strategy and is underpinned by the investment of more than 20% of turnover in R&D. Specialist capabilities exist in motor design and control, mechanics, electronics, embedded software, AI/ML and sensor integration, plus systems engineering.

Overview is committed to growing exceptional business value through customer focus and providing a leading capability to rapidly define and develop unique, innovative, and market-leading products.

**Our Values**

Overview’s operations and reputation are based on the following company Values and Behaviours. These Values and Behaviours, consistently applied, make us what we are and are a key element of the value that we bring to our customers.
- Work together to Win Together
- Creativity and Innovation
- Integrity and Respect
- Customer Focus
- Continuous Improvement
- Positive Impact
- The Process

If you wish to discuss any reasonable adjustments to our process, we are happy to d